{"id":2854,"date":"2012-02-23T15:36:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T01:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2012-02-23T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T01:40:22","slug":"postcard-from-the-universe-the-moon-and-mersury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=2854","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Universe &#8211; The Moon and Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very thin Moon <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=750\">could be seen last night<\/a>.  Only 1.1 days old the Moon was only 1.6% illuminated, a thin crescent indeed.  A few degrees away was Mercury.  I did get a couple photos with a telephoto lens before the clouds moved in and obscured the view&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2853\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CE42-42-12053-DC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CE42-42-12053-DC-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Moon and Mercury\" title=\"Moon and Mercury\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CE42-42-12053-DC-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CE42-42-12053-DC.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A very thin, 1.1 day old Moon and the planet Mercury low in the sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very thin Moon could be seen last night. Only 1.1 days old the Moon was only 1.6% illuminated, a thin crescent indeed. A few degrees away was Mercury. I did get a couple photos with a telephoto lens before the clouds moved in and obscured the view&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,45,260],"tags":[92,63,261],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854"}],"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=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}