{"id":8018,"date":"2013-03-10T01:32:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T11:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8018"},"modified":"2013-03-03T14:41:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T00:41:59","slug":"comet-c2011-l4-pan-starrs-at-perihelion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8018","title":{"rendered":"Comet C\/2011 L4 Pan-STARRS at Perihelion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C\/2011_L4\" target=\"_blank\">Comet C\/2011 L4 (Pan-STARRS)<\/a> will pass through perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun.  Take a good look now, given the 110,000 year orbital period, the comet will not be back anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>The comet should be visible as a 1st magnitude object 13&deg; above the horizon at sunset and directly above the glow of the setting Sun.  It will climb higher each evening after passing through perihelion.  It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aerith.net\/comet\/catalog\/2011L4\/2011L4.html\" target=\"_blank\">will begin to fade<\/a> as well, most likely dimming below 4th magnitude by the end of March.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8000\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=8000\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8000\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Comet2011L4Perihelion.png\" alt=\"Comet 2011 L4 Perihelion\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8000\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">C\/2011 L4 ( PanSTARRS ) positions in the sunset as it passes through perihelion, chart for March 10th, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Comet C\/2011 L4 (Pan-STARRS) will pass through perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun. Take a good look now, given the 110,000 year orbital period, the comet will not be back anytime soon. The comet should be visible as a 1st magnitude object 13&deg; above the horizon at sunset and directly above the glow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8018\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comet C\/2011 L4 Pan-STARRS at Perihelion&#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":[15],"tags":[875,337,101],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018"}],"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=8018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}