{"id":25580,"date":"2019-06-23T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=25580"},"modified":"2018-12-30T12:52:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T22:52:48","slug":"mercury-at-superior-conjunction-17-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=25580","title":{"rendered":"Mercury at Maximum Elongation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=9629\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CF46-63-13150-DC-e1546209797837-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Mercury, Venus and Jupiter\" class=\"wp-image-9629\"\/><\/a><figcaption>An evening conjunction of Mercury, Venus and Jupiter on 30 May, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Today Mercury is passing through <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=649\">maximum\u00a0elongation<\/a>, the furthest it will rise above the setting Sun in the evening sky.  After today the planet will slide back into the Sun&#8217;s glare headed for <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=649\">inferior conjunction<\/a> on July 21st.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the most favorable evening apparition of the year, reaching over 25\u00b0 from the Sun.   The October apparition is almost as good  <br>reaching over 24\u00b0 from the Sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<table style=\"font-size: 80%; border: 1px solid DimGrey;\" width=\"400\">\n  <tbody>\n    <tr><th style=\"font-size: 120%;\" colspan=\"4\">Mercury Events for 2019<\/th><\/tr>\n    <tr><td style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Apparition<\/td><td style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Date  <\/td><td style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Elongation<\/td><td style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Magnitude<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Evening   <\/td><td>Feb 26<\/td><td>18.1\u00b0E    <\/td><td>-0.2     <\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Morning   <\/td><td>Apr 11<\/td><td>27.7\u00b0W    <\/td><td>+0.6     <\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Evening   <\/td><td>Jun 23<\/td><td>25.2\u00b0E    <\/td><td>+0.7     <\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Morning   <\/td><td>Aug  9<\/td><td>19.0\u00b0W    <\/td><td>+0.3     <\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Evening   <\/td><td>Oct 20<\/td><td>24.6\u00b0E    <\/td><td>+0.1     <\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Morning   <\/td><td>Nov 28<\/td><td>20.1\u00b0W    <\/td><td>-0.3     <\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td colspan=\"4\">Data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fourmilab.ch\/images\/3planets\/elongation.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mercury Chaser&#8217;s Calculator by John Walker<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n  <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Mercury is passing through maximum\u00a0elongation, the furthest it will rise above the setting Sun in the evening sky. After today the planet will slide back into the Sun&#8217;s glare headed for inferior conjunction on July 21st. This is the most favorable evening apparition of the year, reaching over 25\u00b0 from the Sun. The October &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=25580\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mercury at Maximum Elongation&#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":[70,96,92],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25580"}],"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=25580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25582,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25580\/revisions\/25582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}