{"id":14793,"date":"2015-06-06T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14793"},"modified":"2015-01-11T15:18:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T01:18:43","slug":"venus-at-maximum-elongation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14793","title":{"rendered":"Venus at Maximum Elongation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Venus will be at <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=649\" target=\"_blank\">maximum eastern elongation<\/a>, as high in the evening sky as it will appear for this current apparition.  After today the planet will begin a slow slide back into the sunset, passing through inferior conjunction on August 15th and reappearing in the dawn during the first weeks of September.<\/p>\n<p>Look for Venus to pass by the Beehive cluster around Jun 12th and have a close conjunction with Jupiter on a few evenings around Jun 30th.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"500\">\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"6\">\n<h4>Venus Events for 2015<\/h4>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>&nbsp;<\/th>\n<th colspan=\"2\">Date UT<\/th>\n<th colspan=\"2\">Date HST<\/th>\n<th>Separation<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Maximum Elongation  <\/td>\n<td>Jun 6  <\/td>\n<td>18:59UT<\/td>\n<td>Jun 6  <\/td>\n<td>08:59HST<\/td>\n<td>45.4\u00b0E<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Inferior Conjunction<\/td>\n<td>Aug 15 <\/td>\n<td>19:19UT<\/td>\n<td>Aug 15 <\/td>\n<td>09:19HST<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Maximum Elongation  <\/td>\n<td>Oct 26 <\/td>\n<td>06:59UT<\/td>\n<td>Oct 25 <\/td>\n<td>20:59HST<\/td>\n<td>46.4\u00b0W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"6\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov\/SKYCAL\/SKYCAL.html\" target=\"_blank\">NASA Sky Calendar<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"6\">\n<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Venus will be at maximum eastern elongation, as high in the evening sky as it will appear for this current apparition. After today the planet will begin a slow slide back into the sunset, passing through inferior conjunction on August 15th and reappearing in the dawn during the first weeks of September. Look for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14793\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Venus at Maximum Elongation&#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":[45],"tags":[73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793"}],"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=14793"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14798,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions\/14798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}