{"id":2288,"date":"2019-03-07T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T12:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2019-03-07T12:45:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T12:45:18","slug":"slender-crescent-moon-8th-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/slender-crescent-moon-8th-march-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Slender Crescent Moon &#8211; 8th March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get yourself out and have a look towards the west after sunset tomorrow evening (8th March).<\/p>\n<p>The Moon will appear as a very slender crescent low over the western horizon.<br \/>\nSo make sure that you have a good low view in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>The image below shows the appearance of The Moon at about 18:15 (UT).<\/p>\n<p>So get yourself out and see if you can spot it.<br \/>\nMercury is to the right and a bit lower than the slender crescent Moon so will be even more difficult to spot so low down.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, give them both a go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium_large wp-image-2289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Moon-8th-March-768x390.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Moon-8th-March-768x390.png 768w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Moon-8th-March-600x304.png 600w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Moon-8th-March-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Moon-8th-March-1024x520.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Moon-8th-March-210x107.png 210w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Moon-8th-March-1536x779.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Moon-8th-March.png 1752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get yourself out and have a look towards the west after sunset tomorrow evening (8th March). The Moon will appear as a very slender crescent low over the western horizon. So make sure that you have a good low view in that direction. The image below shows the appearance of The Moon at about 18:15 [&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":"Slender Crescent Moon - 8th March 2019 - Star-Gazing","description":"Get yourself out and have a look towards the west after sunset tomorrow evening (8th March). The Moon will appear as a very slender crescent low over the wester"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2288","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\/2288","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=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}