{"id":25745,"date":"2019-06-04T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=25745"},"modified":"2019-01-04T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T23:05:10","slug":"the-moon-and-venus-27-2-2-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=25745","title":{"rendered":"An Evening Conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CB28-96-07109-DC-e1356827283894-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"e Moon, Venus and Aldebaran\" class=\"wp-image-7254\"\/><figcaption>The Moon, Venus and Aldebaran join up for an evening conjunction<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This evening will feature a a pretty set of planets and the Moon low in the sunset.  Mercury, Mars, and a thin crescent Moon will be visible above the glow of the setting Sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Moon will be a very thin sliver, a mere 4% illuminated.  Look 7\u00b0 above the Moon for Mars.  Mercury will be harder to spot, about  <br>7\u00b0 below the Moon, closer to the sunset and a little north (to the right).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening will feature a a pretty set of planets and the Moon low in the sunset. Mercury, Mars, and a thin crescent Moon will be visible above the glow of the setting Sun. The Moon will be a very thin sliver, a mere 4% illuminated. Look 7\u00b0 above the Moon for Mars. Mercury will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=25745\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Evening Conjunction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[70,115,92,63],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CB28-96-07109-DC.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25745"}],"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=25745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25746,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25745\/revisions\/25746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}