{"id":8426,"date":"2018-11-20T13:27:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T17:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=8426"},"modified":"2018-11-20T13:27:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T17:27:53","slug":"mars-neptune-conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2018\/11\/mars-neptune-conjunction\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Neptune Conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mars-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mars-1-281x299.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"299\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mars-1-281x299.gif 281w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mars-1-141x150.gif 141w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A nice telescopic planetary conjunction coming up in a couple of weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mars and Neptune on the evening of Thursday 2018 Dec 06.<\/p>\n<p>Mars will set around 23:00 EST in the west, so anytime before that where you have the horizons, I encourage all astronomers to get out and image this.<\/p>\n<p>Mars will be Mag 0.1<\/p>\n<p>Neptune will be Mag 7.9<\/p>\n<p>So even some of you with DSLR and telephoto lens should be able to pick this up! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice telescopic planetary conjunction coming up in a couple of weeks&#8230; Mars and Neptune on the evening of Thursday 2018 Dec 06. Mars will set around 23:00 EST in the west, so anytime before that where you have the horizons, I encourage all astronomers to get out and image this. Mars will be Mag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426","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=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8427,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions\/8427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}