{"id":17971,"date":"2016-01-05T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=17971"},"modified":"2015-12-29T19:45:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T05:45:09","slug":"venus-and-saturn-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=17971","title":{"rendered":"Venus and Saturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of January 8th and 9th Venus and Saturn will be quite close in the dawn.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_16893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16893\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=16893\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16893\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/CB51-55-07285-DC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Moon and Mercury\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-16893\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Moon appears as a thin crescent beside the planet Mercury, photo taken from the summit of Mauna Kea on 12Oct2007<\/figcaption><\/figure>Tomorrow morning the two can be seen rapidly closing upon each other, less than 3\u00b0 apart.  A slim crescent Moon will be only 4\u00b0 above Venus making for a lovely trio in the dawn.  The morning of the 7th will also feature a nice trio, with the Moon now below the pair, closer to the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>As the pair rises on the morning of the 8th they will be only 32&#8242; apart, easily close enough to fit in the low power field of most amateur telescopes.  The morning of the 9th will see the pair again close, only 34&#8242; separation.  They will slide past each other much closer, about 5&#8242; apart, but this will not be visible from the central Pacific as it occurs around 11:42 HST on the 8th, while the planets are below the horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of January 8th and 9th Venus and Saturn will be quite close in the dawn. Tomorrow morning the two can be seen rapidly closing upon each other, less than 3\u00b0 apart. A slim crescent Moon will be only 4\u00b0 above Venus making for a lovely trio in the dawn. The morning of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=17971\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Venus and Saturn&#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":[93,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17971"}],"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=17971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17976,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17971\/revisions\/17976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}