{"id":765,"date":"2006-12-18T20:57:19","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T04:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=765"},"modified":"2006-12-19T08:58:52","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T16:58:52","slug":"crescent-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/12\/18\/crescent-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Crescent Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0612\/crescent-moon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"right\" \/>On a very cold (for us) and clear December morning, the moon showing a thin crescent rises above the eastern horizon. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, I was able to see Saturn about 10&deg; to the left of &#8220;la bella Luna&#8221; but the morning twilight obscured the normally dazzling planet as dawn drew closer. <\/p>\n<p>Not seen in this view are the crisp outlines of the San Gabriel and Santiago peaks jutting up from the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>This was a very nice morning for vistas, both terrestrial and celestial.<\/p>\n<p>I took this shot with my little Canon PowerShot 3.2 Mega Pixel camera. Not as high resolution as Damsel&#8217;s Digital Rebel, but does a fair job. I used a little tripod to steady the camera for a longer exposure in the reduced light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a very cold (for us) and clear December morning, the moon showing a thin crescent rises above the eastern horizon. Earlier, I was able to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","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=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}