{"id":884,"date":"2012-02-07T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=884"},"modified":"2012-02-07T18:53:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T04:53:11","slug":"venus-and-uranus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"Venus and Uranus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few night Venus will pass very close to Uranus.  The pair will be close for about five days, around 2&deg; or less from the 7th to the 11th.  It is on the 9th that the closest approach will occur with the pair separated by a mere 19 arc-minutes, about 1\/5th of a degree and well within the same medium power telescopic field.  This a is chance to find the ice-giant with relatively little effort, there will be no nearby bright stars to confuse with the 5.9 <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=735\">magnitude<\/a> Uranus.  At high magnification both planets will be seen as disks, Venus 16 arc-seconds across, and Uranus a bit over 3 arc-seconds across.  Venus is now far enough between the Earth and the Sun to become somewhat gibbous, being about 70% illuminated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few night Venus will pass very close to Uranus. The pair will be close for about five days, around 2&deg; or less from the 7th to the 11th. It is on the 9th that the closest approach will occur with the pair separated by a mere 19 arc-minutes, about 1\/5th of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=884\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Venus and Uranus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,35,45],"tags":[150,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"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=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}