{"id":16108,"date":"2015-07-02T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=16108"},"modified":"2015-07-02T20:28:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T06:28:04","slug":"conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=16108","title":{"rendered":"Conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed the closest approach of Venus and Jupiter.  Not for lack of trying.  I had set up the telescope and camera in the driveway.  A clear afternoon clouded over at sunset, leaving me only glimpses of the planets through a fleeting gap in the clouds.  I had time to focus enough to see the crescent of Venus, which promptly faded from sight.<\/p>\n<p>The next evening I am on the summit.  No small telescope available, but I did have the camera to record a stunningly beautiful evening atop the mountain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16109\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=16109\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16109\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CH38-54-15182-DC.jpg\" alt=\"Conjunction\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16109\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venus and Jupiter over the Keck 1 dome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed the closest approach of Venus and Jupiter. Not for lack of trying. I had set up the telescope and camera in the driveway. A clear afternoon clouded over at sunset, leaving me only glimpses of the planets through a fleeting gap in the clouds. I had time to focus enough to see the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=16108\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conjunction&#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":[70,103,50,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108"}],"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=16108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16110,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108\/revisions\/16110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}