{"id":9357,"date":"2021-01-25T17:15:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T21:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=9357"},"modified":"2021-01-25T17:16:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T21:16:22","slug":"mercury-2021-jan-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2021\/01\/mercury-2021-jan-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury 2021 Jan 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210123_175346_CanonEOSRebelT7i_1T6s_F4.0_f75.0mm_ISO400.jpg-IMG_2889cropannotated-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210123_175346_CanonEOSRebelT7i_1T6s_F4.0_f75.0mm_ISO400.jpg-IMG_2889cropannotated-299x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"167\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210123_175346_CanonEOSRebelT7i_1T6s_F4.0_f75.0mm_ISO400.jpg-IMG_2889cropannotated-299x167.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210123_175346_CanonEOSRebelT7i_1T6s_F4.0_f75.0mm_ISO400.jpg-IMG_2889cropannotated-1023x573.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210123_175346_CanonEOSRebelT7i_1T6s_F4.0_f75.0mm_ISO400.jpg-IMG_2889cropannotated-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210123_175346_CanonEOSRebelT7i_1T6s_F4.0_f75.0mm_ISO400.jpg-IMG_2889cropannotated-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210123_175346_CanonEOSRebelT7i_1T6s_F4.0_f75.0mm_ISO400.jpg-IMG_2889cropannotated-1536x860.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210123_175346_CanonEOSRebelT7i_1T6s_F4.0_f75.0mm_ISO400.jpg-IMG_2889cropannotated-2048x1147.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an image of Mercury, at its Greatest Eastern Elongation on 2021 January 23rd, looking West Southwest.<br \/>\nAt the time this image was taken, Mercury had a magnitude of -0.67 and an altitude of 7 degrees 4 minutes,<br \/>\nThis was a 6 second exposure at 400 ISO at 75mm on a Canon 5-300 zoom lens and Canon T7i camera.<\/p>\n<p>We were outside earlier trying to spot it visually.  It wasn&#8217;t until almost 45 minutes past sunset that we did spot it.<br \/>\nAs it turns out, the camera did find it first but we did not know that at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an image of Mercury, at its Greatest Eastern Elongation on 2021 January 23rd, looking West Southwest. At the time this image was taken, Mercury had a magnitude of -0.67 and an altitude of 7 degrees 4 minutes, This was a 6 second exposure at 400 ISO at 75mm on a Canon 5-300 zoom [&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-9357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357","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=9357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9360,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357\/revisions\/9360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}