{"id":1312,"date":"2018-06-02T14:16:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T14:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2018-06-02T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T14:22:50","slug":"vesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/vesta\/","title":{"rendered":"Vesta Reaches Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The asteroid Vesta reaches opposition in Ophiuchus on the 19th of June.<\/p>\n<p>This asteroid was explored by the Dawn Spacecraft between 2011 and 2012, before going on to explore Ceres.<\/p>\n<p>Its current eastwards retrograde movement takes it just south of the open star cluster M23 on the 14th of June.<\/p>\n<p>Its maximum magnitude is about +5.3 at it&#8217;s brightest means that it is (theoretically, at least) a naked eye object.<\/p>\n<p>Failing that, binoculars or a small telescope should help you identify this asteroid against the background stars. Its movement over a day or so should reveal its non-stellar nature.<\/p>\n<p>Make a sketch of the star field or take a picture of its position a day or so either side of each other to reveal the asteroids movement.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Hunting.<\/p>\n<p>The map below shows the path during June and July.<br \/>\nPosition shown at 1 day intervals.<br \/>\n(Click on map for bigger version).<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/Files\/VestaJuneJuly2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/Files\/VestaJuneJuly2018.jpg\" width=\"1464\" height=\"741\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The asteroid Vesta reaches opposition in Ophiuchus on the 19th of June. This asteroid was explored by the Dawn Spacecraft between 2011 and 2012, before going on to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Vesta Reaches Opposition - Star-Gazing","description":"The asteroid Vesta reaches opposition in Ophiuchus on the 19th of June. This asteroid was explored by the Dawn Spacecraft between 2011 and 2012, before going on"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}