{"id":14801,"date":"2015-06-10T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14801"},"modified":"2015-01-11T15:30:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T01:30:51","slug":"venus-and-jupiter-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14801","title":{"rendered":"Venus and Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next two months the two brightest visual planets will dance in the sunset.  Jupiter and Venus make for a brilliant pairing.  With Venus shining at -4.3 and Jupiter somewhat dimmer at magnitude -1.9, the two are already quite obvious in the evening sky.    Jupiter will swing just north of Venus approaching to within 0.3&#038;deg on June 30th.  The pair will separate slowly after that and disappear into the sunset glow together.<\/p>\n<p>Around June 30th the two will be easily close enough to bee seen together in the low power view of amateur telescopes.    It makes a fascinating sight to see the two planets together in the eyepiece.<\/p>\n<p>As an added bonus the planet Mercury will join the pair around August 3rd, the trio forming a nice triangle of bright planets low in the sunset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next two months the two brightest visual planets will dance in the sunset. Jupiter and Venus make for a brilliant pairing. With Venus shining at -4.3 and Jupiter somewhat dimmer at magnitude -1.9, the two are already quite obvious in the evening sky. Jupiter will swing just north of Venus approaching to within &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14801\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Venus and Jupiter&#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":[70,1510,103,261,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801"}],"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=14801"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14814,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801\/revisions\/14814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}