{"id":14768,"date":"2015-04-20T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14768"},"modified":"2015-01-10T21:44:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T07:44:12","slug":"mercury-appears-in-the-evening-sky-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14768","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Appears in the Evening Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

The planet Mercury is starting an evening apparition. The planet should become visible this week just above the fading glow of the setting Sun as a magnitude -1 object. The planet is moving about 1° further from the Sun and higher in the sunset each day, reaching a maximum elongation<\/a> of 21° on May 6th.<\/p>\n

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Mercury Events for 2015<\/h4>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/th>\nDate UT<\/th>\nDate HST<\/th>\nSeparation<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Maximum Elongation <\/td>\nJan 14 <\/td>\n19:59UT<\/td>\nJan 14 <\/td>\n09:59HST<\/td>\n18.9\u00b0E<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Inferior Conjunction<\/td>\nJan 30 <\/td>\n13:40UT<\/td>\nJan 30 <\/td>\n03:40HST<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maximum Elongation <\/td>\nFeb 24 <\/td>\n15:59UT<\/td>\nFeb 24 <\/td>\n05:59HST<\/td>\n26.7\u00b0W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Superior Conjunction<\/td>\nApr 10 <\/td>\n03:52UT<\/td>\nApr 09 <\/td>\n17:52HST<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maximum Elongation <\/td>\nMay 7 <\/td>\n04:59UT<\/td>\nMay 6 <\/td>\n18:59HST<\/td>\n21.2\u00b0E<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Inferior Conjunction<\/td>\nMay 30 <\/td>\n16:53UT<\/td>\nMay 30 <\/td>\n06:53HST<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maximum Elongation <\/td>\nJun 24 <\/td>\n16:59UT<\/td>\nJun 24 <\/td>\n06:59HST<\/td>\n22.5\u00b0W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Superior Conjunction<\/td>\nJul 23 <\/td>\n19:18UT<\/td>\nJul 23 <\/td>\n09:18HST<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maximum Elongation <\/td>\nSep 4 <\/td>\n09:59UT<\/td>\nSep 3 <\/td>\n23:59HST<\/td>\n27.1\u00b0E<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Inferior Conjunction<\/td>\nSep 30 <\/td>\n14:36UT<\/td>\nSep 30 <\/td>\n04:36HST<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maximum Elongation <\/td>\nOct 16 <\/td>\n02:59UT<\/td>\nOct 15 <\/td>\n16:59HST<\/td>\n18.1\u00b0W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Superior Conjunction<\/td>\nNov 17 <\/td>\n14:45UT<\/td>\nNov 17 <\/td>\n04:45HST<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maximum Elongation <\/td>\nDec 29 <\/td>\n02:59UT<\/td>\nDec 28 <\/td>\n16:59HST<\/td>\n19.7\u00b0E<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Source: NASA Sky Calendar<\/a> and the Mercury Chaser’s Calculator<\/a>, yes there appears to be a bug in the NASA sky calendar that always puts XX:59 minutes for the maximum elongation time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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The planet Mercury is starting an evening apparition. The planet should become visible this week just above the fading glow of the setting Sun as a magnitude -1 object. The planet is moving about 1° further from the Sun and higher in the sunset each day, reaching a maximum elongation of 21° on May 6th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[92,72],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14768"}],"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=14768"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14771,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14768\/revisions\/14771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}