{"id":25591,"date":"2019-08-13T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=25591"},"modified":"2018-12-30T14:32:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T00:32:28","slug":"mercury-at-superior-conjunction-17-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=25591","title":{"rendered":"Venus at Superior Conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Venus20131224.jpg\" alt=\"Crescent Venus\" class=\"wp-image-12033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Venus20131224.jpg 256w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Venus20131224-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 85vw, 256px\" \/><figcaption>Venus approaching inferior conjunction, 24Dec2013<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Today Venus is passing through <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=649\">superior\u00a0conjunction<\/a>, passing behind the Sun as seen from our earthbound point of view.   <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venus will reappear in the sunset in mid-September, a brilliant star like object low on the horizon, just above the glow of sunset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Venus does reappear we can expect a few UFO reports by people unfamiliar with the normal workings of our skies.  In late 2018, when it last emerged in the dawn we had a few such reports here on the island, including a very nice video and folks who could not accept the fact that the &#8220;strange light&#8221; was simply a bright planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venus will spend the remainder of 2019 in the evening sky, reaching maximum elongation on March 24th, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Venus is passing through superior\u00a0conjunction, passing behind the Sun as seen from our earthbound point of view. Venus will reappear in the sunset in mid-September, a brilliant star like object low on the horizon, just above the glow of sunset. When Venus does reappear we can expect a few UFO reports by people unfamiliar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=25591\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Venus at Superior Conjunction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[70,96,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Venus20131224.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591"}],"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=25591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25593,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591\/revisions\/25593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}