{"id":11540,"date":"2026-08-14T20:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=11540"},"modified":"2026-08-14T20:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:41:09","slug":"venus-and-moonset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2026\/08\/14\/venus-and-moonset\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus and Moonset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260814-venus-and-5-percent-moon-sunset.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260814-venus-and-5-percent-moon-sunset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1201\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11541\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260814-venus-and-5-percent-moon-sunset.jpg 1201w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260814-venus-and-5-percent-moon-sunset-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260814-venus-and-5-percent-moon-sunset-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260814-venus-and-5-percent-moon-sunset-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1201px) 100vw, 1201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Bob took Tucker out for his late walk this evening, we saw this asterism looking west; the five percent illuminated  waxing crescent moon was just about to set in the west with the evening &#8220;star,&#8221; Venus, above and to the south. With the cloud texture and otherwise clear sky, it was a beautiful sight. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Bob took Tucker out for his late walk this evening, we saw this asterism looking west; the five percent illuminated waxing crescent moon was just&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,32,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-astronomy","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11545,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11540\/revisions\/11545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}