{"id":3851,"date":"2012-12-03T11:28:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T15:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2012-12-03T11:44:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T15:44:40","slug":"mercury-greatest-elongation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/mercury-greatest-elongation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Greatest Elongation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121204.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121204-278x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20121204\" width=\"278\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121204-278x299.jpg 278w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121204-139x150.jpg 139w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121204-951x1023.jpg 951w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121204.jpg 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTomorrow, 2012 December 04, Tuesday, Mercury will be at its greatest elongation W (21 deg) for the best viewing of the year.<br \/>\nThis screen capture comes from a great planetarium program,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stellarium.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Stellarium<\/a> v0.11.3, and shows Tuesday morning at about 06:21 EST looking just south of east.<\/p>\n<p>Also look at the planetary conjunction of (left to right, bottom to top) of Mercury, Venus and Saturn in a straight line about 15 degrees long.<\/p>\n<p>It is REALLY DISAPPOINTING that the weather forecast looks bad.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cleardarksky.com\/c\/Kingstonkey.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cleardarksky.com\/c\/Kingstoncs0.gif?1\"><\/A><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, stellarium is up to v 0.11.4 as of september&#8230; good to know.  Upgraded in place and all is well.  Not sure what the specific updates were in this case, doesn&#8217;t look like any new features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, 2012 December 04, Tuesday, Mercury will be at its greatest elongation W (21 deg) for the best viewing of the year. This screen capture comes from a great planetarium program, Stellarium v0.11.3, and shows Tuesday morning at about 06:21 EST looking just south of east. Also look at the planetary conjunction of (left to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851","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=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}