{"id":7124,"date":"2013-05-18T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=7124"},"modified":"2013-05-14T16:03:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T02:03:22","slug":"mercury-appears-in-the-evening-sky-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=7124","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Appears in the Evening Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The planet Mercury is starting an evening apparition.  The planet should become visible this week just above the fading glow of the setting Sun as a magnitude -1 object.  Currently about 10&deg; from the Sun it will rise higher each evening, reaching a <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=649\">maximum elongation<\/a> of 24&deg; on June 12th.<\/p>\n<p>Mercury will join Venus and Jupiter in the sunset making for a series of planetary conjunctions over the coming month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The planet Mercury is starting an evening apparition. The planet should become visible this week just above the fading glow of the setting Sun as a magnitude -1 object. Currently about 10&deg; from the Sun it will rise higher each evening, reaching a maximum elongation of 24&deg; on June 12th. Mercury will join Venus and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=7124\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mercury Appears in the Evening Sky&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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\/7124"}],"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=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}