{"id":11965,"date":"2014-02-24T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11965"},"modified":"2013-12-25T02:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T12:08:00","slug":"the-moon-and-venus-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11965","title":{"rendered":"The Moon and Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_12033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12033\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=12033\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12033\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Venus20131224-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Crescent Venus\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Venus20131224-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Venus20131224.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venus approaching inferior conjunction, 24Dec2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>Tomorrow morning, February 24th, will see a brilliant Venus paired with a crescent Moon.  Look for the pair to rise about 04:00HST to be 33&deg; above the horizon at sunrise.  An 18% illuminated Moon will be a nice match for Venus shining brilliantly at -4.6 magnitude.  Separation will be about 7&#038;deg.<\/p>\n<p>The following morning, February 25th, will see the Moon 7&deg; below Venus.  Observant sky-watchers will note Mercury another 16&deg; closer to the eastern horizon and the rising Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow morning, February 24th, will see a brilliant Venus paired with a crescent Moon. Look for the pair to rise about 04:00HST to be 33&deg; above the horizon at sunrise. An 18% illuminated Moon will be a nice match for Venus shining brilliantly at -4.6 magnitude. Separation will be about 7&#038;deg. The following morning, February &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11965\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Moon and Venus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[70,63,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12039,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11965\/revisions\/12039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}