{"id":1973,"date":"2012-09-25T01:10:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T11:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2012-01-22T10:18:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T20:18:42","slug":"a-line-of-planets-in-the-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=1973","title":{"rendered":"A Line of Planets in the Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Mercury rises clear of the Sun&#8217;s glare it joins Mars and Saturn in the sunset sky.  Tonight the three will form a nice line of planets.  Mercury will still be quite low, about 12&deg; from the Sun at sunset.  Saturn is next in the line at 19&deg; elevation at sunset.  Mars will be over 30&deg; high at sunset.  As usual Mars and Saturn are about the same brightness, Mars at 1.2 <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=735\">magnitude<\/a>, Saturn at 0.72.  Mercury will be the brightest at -0.6 magnitude, which will aid in seeing the planets lower in the sunset.<\/p>\n<p>The three will dance in the sunset over the coming weeks with Saturn and Mercury joining up for a close set around October 4th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Mercury rises clear of the Sun&#8217;s glare it joins Mars and Saturn in the sunset sky. Tonight the three will form a nice line of planets. Mercury will still be quite low, about 12&deg; from the Sun at sunset. Saturn is next in the line at 19&deg; elevation at sunset. Mars will be over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=1973\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Line of Planets in the Sunset&#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":[115,92,93],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973"}],"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=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}