{"id":923,"date":"2003-10-27T23:07:38","date_gmt":"2003-10-27T23:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=923"},"modified":"2020-08-20T23:08:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T23:08:01","slug":"the-evening-star-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2003\/10\/27\/the-evening-star-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evening Star Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple of days ago I saw a faint but steady light in the sky hovering over the Western mountains. A-ha, I thought. Venus is back in the evening sky! This was confirmed the following day by a visit to SkyAndTelescope.com, which also informed me that Venus and a very new Moon would appear very close together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And indeed they did, although not as close as the website would have had be believe. I took the camera out and attempted to capture the beauty of the scene, but now I wish I&#8217;d used my new tripod because there was a lot of shake that kind of ruined the detail. Still&#8230; here&#8217;s a taste:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/moonset_cleanup.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I saw a faint but steady light in the sky hovering over the Western mountains. A-ha, I thought. Venus is back in the evening sky! This was confirmed the following day by a visit to SkyAndTelescope.com, which also informed me that Venus and a very new Moon would appear very [&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-923","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\/923","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=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}