{"id":2530,"date":"2012-03-12T11:12:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T16:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2012-03-12T12:27:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T16:27:21","slug":"three-planet-conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/three-planet-conjunction\/","title":{"rendered":"Three planet conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120305-24-jupiter-venus-mercury.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120305-24-jupiter-venus-mercury-299x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20120305-24-jupiter-venus-mercury\" width=\"250\"  class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120305-24-jupiter-venus-mercury-299x224.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120305-24-jupiter-venus-mercury-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120305-24-jupiter-venus-mercury-1023x767.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120305-24-jupiter-venus-mercury.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>Ok.. at least a two planet conjunction with Jupiter and Venus very close together in the Western sky.  Going from left to right, Jupiter is first, Venus is second, Mercury is quite low near the horizon to the right of the bird feed.  This is a 15 second exposure with a Canon Powershot A540<\/p>\n<p>The next shot was taken with a Canon Powershot A495 (a lower model number but a newer camera!), also a 15 second exposure looking west.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120305a-35-jupiter-venus-mercury.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120305a-35-jupiter-venus-mercury-224x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20120305a-35-jupiter-venus-mercury\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120305a-35-jupiter-venus-mercury-224x299.jpg 224w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120305a-35-jupiter-venus-mercury-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120305a-35-jupiter-venus-mercury-767x1023.jpg 767w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120305a-35-jupiter-venus-mercury.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok.. at least a two planet conjunction with Jupiter and Venus very close together in the Western sky. Going from left to right, Jupiter is first, Venus is second, Mercury is quite low near the horizon to the right of the bird feed. This is a 15 second exposure with a Canon Powershot A540 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}