{"id":671,"date":"2012-03-21T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=671"},"modified":"2012-02-22T21:21:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T07:21:51","slug":"mercury-at-inferior-conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Mercury at Inferior Conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the planet Mercury passes through <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=649\">inferior conjunction<\/a>, passing between the Sun and the Earth.  In a week or so the planet will again be visible in the dawn sky, climbing higher each day.  <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=649\">Maximum elongation<\/a> will occur April 18th.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"500\">\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"6\">\n<h4>Mercury Events for 2012<\/h4>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>&nbsp;<\/th>\n<th colspan=\"2\">Date UT<\/th>\n<th colspan=\"2\">Date HST<\/th>\n<th>Separation<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Superior Conjunction<\/td>\n<td>Feb 7  <\/td>\n<td>08:54UT<\/td>\n<td>Feb 6  <\/td>\n<td>22:54HST<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Maximum Elongation  <\/td>\n<td>Mar 5  <\/td>\n<td>08:59UT<\/td>\n<td>Mar 4  <\/td>\n<td>22:59HST<\/td>\n<td>18.2\u00b0E<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Inferior Conjunction<\/td>\n<td>Mar 21 <\/td>\n<td>19:19UT<\/td>\n<td>Mar 21 <\/td>\n<td>09:19HST<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Maximum Elongation  <\/td>\n<td>Apr 18 <\/td>\n<td>16:59UT<\/td>\n<td>Apr 18 <\/td>\n<td>06:59HST<\/td>\n<td>27.5\u00b0W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Superior Conjunction<\/td>\n<td>May 27 <\/td>\n<td>11:14UT<\/td>\n<td>May 27 <\/td>\n<td>01:14HST<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Maximum Elongation  <\/td>\n<td>July 1 <\/td>\n<td>01:59UT<\/td>\n<td>Jun 30 <\/td>\n<td>15:59HST<\/td>\n<td>25.7\u00b0E<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Inferior Conjunction<\/td>\n<td>Jul 28 <\/td>\n<td>19:54UT<\/td>\n<td>Jul 28 <\/td>\n<td>09:54HST<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Maximum Elongation  <\/td>\n<td>Aug 16 <\/td>\n<td>11:59UT<\/td>\n<td>Aug 16 <\/td>\n<td>01:59HST<\/td>\n<td>18.7\u00b0W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Superior Conjunction<\/td>\n<td>Sep 10 <\/td>\n<td>12:37UT<\/td>\n<td>Sep 10 <\/td>\n<td>02:37HST<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Maximum Elongation  <\/td>\n<td>Oct 26 <\/td>\n<td>21:59UT<\/td>\n<td>Oct 26 <\/td>\n<td>11:59HST<\/td>\n<td>24.1\u00b0E<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Inferior Conjunction<\/td>\n<td>Nov 17 <\/td>\n<td>15:42UT<\/td>\n<td>Nov 17 <\/td>\n<td>05:42HST<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Maximum Elongation  <\/td>\n<td>Dec 4  <\/td>\n<td>22:59UT<\/td>\n<td>Dec 4  <\/td>\n<td>12:59HST<\/td>\n<td>20.6\u00b0W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"6\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"6\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov\/SKYCAL\/SKYCAL.html\" target=\"_blank\">NASA Sky Calendar<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourmilab.ch\/images\/3planets\/elongation.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mercury Chaser&#8217;s Calculator<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"6\">\n<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the planet Mercury passes through inferior conjunction, passing between the Sun and the Earth. In a week or so the planet will again be visible in the dawn sky, climbing higher each day. Maximum elongation will occur April 18th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[92],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}