{"id":18622,"date":"2016-05-08T21:57:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T07:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=18622"},"modified":"2018-12-31T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T05:17:12","slug":"mercury-transit-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=18622","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Transit Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick reminder that mercury will transit the face of the Sun tomorrow morning.  You can read <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=16564\">full details in my earlier post<\/a> or check out <a href=\"http:\/\/xjubier.free.fr\/en\/site_pages\/MercuryTransitCalculator.html\" target=\"_blank\">a decent transit calculator<\/a>.  For observer in Hawaii the transit will already be well underway at sunrise, making this a set-the-alarm-early exercise.  My telescope and solar filter are already loaded&#8230;  Are yours?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16565\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16565\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CB15-34-06312-DC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CB15-34-06312-DC-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"Transit of Mercury\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CB15-34-06312-DC-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CB15-34-06312-DC-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CB15-34-06312-DC.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2006 transit of Mercury, photographed with a 90mm telescope and a Canon 20Da<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick reminder that mercury will transit the face of the Sun tomorrow morning. You can read full details in my earlier post or check out a decent transit calculator. For observer in Hawaii the transit will already be well underway at sunrise, making this a set-the-alarm-early exercise. My telescope and solar filter are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=18622\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mercury Transit Reminder&#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":[18],"tags":[92,75,74],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18622"}],"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=18622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18623,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18622\/revisions\/18623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}