{"id":461,"date":"2001-05-13T21:14:19","date_gmt":"2001-05-13T21:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=461"},"modified":"2020-08-18T21:15:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T21:15:03","slug":"three-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2001\/05\/13\/three-planets\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Planets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I took the telescope out the front of the house this evening, because Jupiter and Mercury were brightly visible in the northwest just after sundown. I had no idea Mercury appeared that far from the sun. I thought I&#8217;d never actually seen Mercury before, but now I suspect I have and just didn&#8217;t realize it. Anyway, this was the first time I&#8217;d pointed the scope at it. I am pleased to announce that with the 9mm Plossl eyepiece, we could resolve Mercury&#8217;s disk &#8211; at least, the half that was lit up by the sun. Fabulous. (Check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2001\/TECH\/space\/05\/16\/mercury.rising\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2001\/TECH\/space\/05\/16\/mercury.rising\/index.html<\/a>\u00a0for more info on this).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the telescope out the front of the house this evening, because Jupiter and Mercury were brightly visible in the northwest just after sundown. I had no idea Mercury appeared that far from the sun. I thought I&#8217;d never actually seen Mercury before, but now I suspect I have and just didn&#8217;t realize it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}