{"id":4862,"date":"2012-03-10T19:50:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T02:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/03\/10\/planetary-conjunction\/"},"modified":"2012-03-10T19:50:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T02:50:27","slug":"planetary-conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/03\/10\/planetary-conjunction\/","title":{"rendered":"Planetary Conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/conjunction.jpg' title='conjunction.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/conjunction.jpg' alt='conjunction.jpg' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Planets Jupiter and Venus are currently gathered in the western sky as they do from time to time. This evening, I went out with the new camera on a tripod and played around with some of the settings and modes to get this image of the conjunction in the twilight. I took this image using the AV or &#8220;aperture priority&#8221; mode on the camera. You can see the two brightest objects are Jupiter (left) and Venus. Our neighbor&#8217;s illuminated flagpole is visible near the bottom of the frame. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planets Jupiter and Venus are currently gathered in the western sky as they do from time to time. This evening, I went out with the new&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862","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\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}