{"id":2657,"date":"2012-03-27T08:33:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T12:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2012-03-27T08:43:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T12:43:05","slug":"2657","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/2657\/","title":{"rendered":"triple conjunction 2012 march 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_2658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2658\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120326-14-moon-venus-jupiter-15sec.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120326-14-moon-venus-jupiter-15sec-224x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20120326-14-moon-venus-jupiter-15sec\" width=\"224\" height=\"299\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120326-14-moon-venus-jupiter-15sec-224x299.jpg 224w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120326-14-moon-venus-jupiter-15sec-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120326-14-moon-venus-jupiter-15sec-767x1023.jpg 767w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120326-14-moon-venus-jupiter-15sec.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">moon-venus-jupiter-15sec exposure 2012 march 26th<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAnother nice clear night for imaging the conjunction of the Moon, Venus and Jupiter in this 15 second exposure with a Canon Powershot A540 on a tripod.   It was very windy and cold.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is nice to see large day to day movement in the skies, in this case the moon going from within 3 degrees of Jupiter one day to within 3 degrees of Venus the next.<\/p>\n<p>In the upper left you will see the Hyades (the great big V with the bright star Aldeberan) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pleiades\" target=\"_blank\">Pleiades star cluster<\/a> (Messier 45)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another nice clear night for imaging the conjunction of the Moon, Venus and Jupiter in this 15 second exposure with a Canon Powershot A540 on a tripod. It was very windy and cold. It is nice to see large day to day movement in the skies, in this case the moon going from within 3 [&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-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","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=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}