{"id":20661,"date":"2017-01-31T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=20661"},"modified":"2016-12-17T12:37:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T22:37:18","slug":"venus-in-the-daytime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=20661","title":{"rendered":"Venus in the Daytime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Moon only a few degrees from Venus this afternoon, it should be relatively easy to spot the brilliant planet long before sunset.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_4431\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4431\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=4431\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4431\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Venus201205281-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Venus 28May2012\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4431\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venus photographed on 28May2012, about 13\u00b0 from the Sun in the mid-afternoon sky<\/figcaption><\/figure>Spotting planets in the daytime is not that difficult, both Jupiter and Venus are bright enough to seen in full daylight.  Venus is currently near maximum brilliance at about -4.6 magnitude, easily bright enough to see in a clear sky. There are a <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=12169\">few helpful hints to make this easier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today the Moon will aid finding Venus in the sky as it is about <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=1552\">5\u00b0 north<\/a> of the Moon.  Having the Moon nearby will not only aid in locating the Planet, it will also provide your eyes something to focus on.<\/p>\n<p>Of course these bright objects will be even more dramatic after sunset when Mars will also be visible nearby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Moon only a few degrees from Venus this afternoon, it should be relatively easy to spot the brilliant planet long before sunset. Spotting planets in the daytime is not that difficult, both Jupiter and Venus are bright enough to seen in full daylight. Venus is currently near maximum brilliance at about -4.6 magnitude, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=20661\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Venus in the Daytime&#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":[48],"tags":[264,103,1531,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20661"}],"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=20661"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20666,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20661\/revisions\/20666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}