{"id":1431,"date":"2018-07-14T14:03:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2018-07-17T15:46:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T15:46:25","slug":"northants-amateur-astronomers-17th-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/northants-amateur-astronomers-17th-july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Northants Amateur Astronomers &#8211; 17th July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday the 17th of July I will be re-visiting my good friends and fairly local group of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/naastronomy.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northants Amateur Astronomers<\/a> <\/strong>to give them a presentation on <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Mars &#8211; The Red Planet.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1432\" src=\"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/MarsTitle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/MarsTitle.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/MarsTitle-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/MarsTitle-210x137.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is nicely timed just before the planet comes to opposition on the 27th of this month.<\/p>\n<p>I will talk about past observations, the frustrations of observing the planet as an amateur, (especially with the global dust storm currently blocking out the features). I will also review of some of the unmanned missions, failures and successes, that have visited the planet and a look forward at future possibilities for manned flights.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting starts at 7:45pm.<\/p>\n<p>Venue:<br \/>\nThe Lounge.<br \/>\nGeddington Village Hall.<br \/>\nQueen Street.<br \/>\nGeddington.<br \/>\nNN14 1AZ<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday the 17th of July I will be re-visiting my good friends and fairly local group of\u00a0Northants Amateur Astronomers to give them a presentation on Mars &#8211; The Red Planet. This is nicely timed just before the planet comes to opposition on the 27th of this month. I will talk about past observations, the [&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":"Northants Amateur Astronomers - 17th July 2018 - Star-Gazing","description":"On Tuesday the 17th of July I will be re-visiting my good friends and fairly local group of\u00a0 Northants Amateur Astronomers to give them a presentation on Mars -"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431","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\/1431","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=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}