{"id":27106,"date":"2019-11-23T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27106"},"modified":"2019-11-23T13:54:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T23:54:40","slug":"venus-and-jupiter-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27106","title":{"rendered":"Venus and Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Observant sky watchers will have noticed that the two brightest planets in our skies have been drawing close together. Jupiter and Venus are currently about 2\u00b0 apart. Sunday evening will see them at their closest for viewers in the islands at just under 1.5\u00b0 apart. Monday will see the pair very slightly further apart at just over 1.5\u00b0 separation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=16109\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CH38-54-15182-DC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Conjunction\" class=\"wp-image-16109\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Venus and Jupiter over the Keck 1 dome<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After Monday the two will gradually separate further with Jupiter disappearing into the sunset in mid-December while Venus continues to climb further from the Sun until maximum elongation on March 24, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday the 27th a thin crescent Moon will join these bright planets, just 5\u00b0 below Jupiter.  On Thursday the 28th the Moon will be 4\u00b0 above Venus.  The three should make for quite a spectacular sight in the glow of sunset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A degree and a half separation will allow both to fit in the field of view of very low power telescopes and binoculars, a bit much to fit both in the field of view of most telescopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observant sky watchers will have noticed that the two brightest planets in our skies have been drawing close together. Jupiter and Venus are currently about 2\u00b0 apart. Sunday evening will see them at their closest for viewers in the islands at just under 1.5\u00b0 apart. Monday will see the pair very slightly further apart at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27106\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Venus and Jupiter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[70,103,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CH38-54-15182-DC.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27106"}],"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=27106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27114,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27106\/revisions\/27114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}