{"id":9120,"date":"2013-05-21T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9120"},"modified":"2013-05-08T22:12:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T08:12:32","slug":"the-moon-and-spica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9120","title":{"rendered":"The Moon and Spica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight the Moon will rendezvous with the bright star Spica in the constellation Virgo.  The Moon is approaching full, just under 90% illuminated.  Evening will see the two quite close, about 2&deg; apart.  As the night progresses this separation will diminish as the Moon slides just south of the star.  For viewers in Hawai&#8217;i the minimum separation will be about 40&#8242; around 2:00 in the morning with the star just 25&#8242; from the Moon&#8217;s pole. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight the Moon will rendezvous with the bright star Spica in the constellation Virgo. The Moon is approaching full, just under 90% illuminated. Evening will see the two quite close, about 2&deg; apart. As the night progresses this separation will diminish as the Moon slides just south of the star. For viewers in Hawai&#8217;i the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Moon and Spica&#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":[63,117],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120"}],"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=9120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}