{"id":8057,"date":"2018-04-01T11:57:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T15:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=8057"},"modified":"2018-04-01T12:14:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T16:14:58","slug":"conjunction-moon-venus-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2018\/04\/conjunction-moon-venus-mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"Conjunction moon venus mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a rare event on Sunday 2018 March 18th, a conjunction of the Moon, Venus and Mercury in the western horizon after sunset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Taken with our old Canon DSLR on a tripod, first two south of Newburg Ontario and last two northwest of Yarker Ontario.<\/p>\n

The dark side of the moon was lit up by Earthshine and was very impressive. The moon was 1 day 10 hours old, or 34 hours as calculated by http:\/\/cycletourist.com\/moon\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a rare event on Sunday 2018 March 18th, a conjunction of the Moon, Venus and Mercury in the western horizon after sunset. Taken with our old Canon DSLR on a tripod, first two south of Newburg Ontario and last two northwest of Yarker Ontario. The dark side of the moon was lit up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8057","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8057"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8067,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8057\/revisions\/8067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}