{"id":7285,"date":"2013-06-09T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=7285"},"modified":"2012-12-29T15:40:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T01:40:49","slug":"the-moon-mercury-and-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=7285","title":{"rendered":"The Moon, Mercury and Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening the Moon will join the ongoing dance of planets in the sunset.  A very thin crescent Moon will be 13&deg; above the horizon at sunset and 6&deg; below and south of the brilliant Venus.  5&deg; above Venus will be Mercury notably dimmer at only 0.4 <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=735\">magnitude<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow the Moon will be a bit higher and show a little more crescent at 6% illuminated.  It will be above Venus and about the same elevation as Mercury, if 7&deg; further to the south.<\/p>\n<p>Jupiter is still present, but probably too low into the sunset to spot at only 6&deg; from the setting Sun.  Maybe with perfect conditions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening the Moon will join the ongoing dance of planets in the sunset. A very thin crescent Moon will be 13&deg; above the horizon at sunset and 6&deg; below and south of the brilliant Venus. 5&deg; above Venus will be Mercury notably dimmer at only 0.4 magnitude. Tomorrow the Moon will be a bit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=7285\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Moon, Mercury and Venus&#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":[16],"tags":[70,103,92,63,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285"}],"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=7285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}