{"id":8863,"date":"2020-01-20T10:45:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T14:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=8863"},"modified":"2020-01-20T11:36:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T15:36:34","slug":"opposition-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2020\/01\/opposition-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"opposition 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mars_20190105_011254_ZWOASI290MC_Exposure3.png-annotated.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mars_20190105_011254_ZWOASI290MC_Exposure3.png-annotated-299x299.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\"  class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mars_20190105_011254_ZWOASI290MC_Exposure3.png-annotated-299x299.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mars_20190105_011254_ZWOASI290MC_Exposure3.png-annotated-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mars_20190105_011254_ZWOASI290MC_Exposure3.png-annotated.png 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis image shows Mars at 7.2 arcseconds in diameter and a declination of +0deg 52 min and an altitude of 22 deg, and using 3ms exposures.<br \/>\nFollowing up on the 20 tips below, in particular Tip #3:<\/p>\n<p>mark these on whatever method you use to remind you of upcoming events.<\/p>\n<p>* 2020 opposition dates<\/p>\n<p>July 14 &#8211; Jupiter<br \/>\nJuly 20 &#8211; Saturn<br \/>\nSeptember 11 Neptune<br \/>\nOctober 13 &#8211; Mars<br \/>\nOctober 31 &#8211; Uranus<\/p>\n<p>Of note Mars will be much higher in altitude  for the 2020 opposition vs the last 2018 one:<br \/>\n2018 July 27 Dec -25\u00b0.4<br \/>\n2020  October 13  Dec +5\u00b0.5<br \/>\nThe three oppositions after that are even higher in declination!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image shows Mars at 7.2 arcseconds in diameter and a declination of +0deg 52 min and an altitude of 22 deg, and using 3ms exposures. Following up on the 20 tips below, in particular Tip #3: mark these on whatever method you use to remind you of upcoming events. * 2020 opposition dates July [&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-8863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863","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=8863"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8869,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions\/8869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}