{"id":249,"date":"2023-06-21T22:45:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T22:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/?p=249"},"modified":"2023-06-22T19:36:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T19:36:26","slug":"venus-and-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Venus and the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"705\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Venus-Moon_IMG_5843_1600-1024x705.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Venus-Moon_IMG_5843_1600-1024x705.png 1024w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Venus-Moon_IMG_5843_1600-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Venus-Moon_IMG_5843_1600-768x528.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Venus-Moon_IMG_5843_1600-1536x1057.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Venus-Moon_IMG_5843_1600-320x220.png 320w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Venus-Moon_IMG_5843_1600-480x330.png 480w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Venus-Moon_IMG_5843_1600-800x551.png 800w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Venus-Moon_IMG_5843_1600.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Venus has been a constant companion in the evening twilight for several months now, but that&#8217;s all about to change as it heads towards inferior conjunction on 13 August 2023. This evening a few clouds parted to allow a lovely view (and photo opportunity) of Venus near the waxing crescent Moon.  Image taken with a Canon 6D on a static tripod, 2s exposure @ f\/11, ISO 1600 using a 50-500 telephoto lens set at 363mm. Image time 21:52 UT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Update: The image below is a wider view which shows Mars (up against the left hand frame edge) which was present in the area too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Mars-Venus-Moon_IMG_5842-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Mars-Venus-Moon_IMG_5842-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Mars-Venus-Moon_IMG_5842-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Mars-Venus-Moon_IMG_5842-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Mars-Venus-Moon_IMG_5842-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Mars-Venus-Moon_IMG_5842-320x213.png 320w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Mars-Venus-Moon_IMG_5842-480x320.png 480w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Mars-Venus-Moon_IMG_5842-800x534.png 800w, https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-21_Mars-Venus-Moon_IMG_5842.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venus has been a constant companion in the evening twilight for several months now, but that&#8217;s all about to change as it heads towards inferior conjunction on 13 August 2023. This evening a few clouds parted to allow a lovely view (and photo opportunity) of Venus near the waxing crescent Moon. Image taken with a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/?p=249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Venus and the Moon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsky.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}