{"id":3495,"date":"2019-11-22T11:40:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T11:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2019-11-22T11:46:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T11:46:43","slug":"apollo-12-19691122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/apollo-12-19691122\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 12 &#8211; 50th Anniversary: Almost Home."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>50 years ago today the three Apollo 12 astronauts continue their coast back home today.<\/p>\n<p>They perform a mid-course correction to keep their angle towards Earth correct for a perfect re-entry on Sunday evening. So they are almost home.<\/p>\n<p>Not much more to say until Sunday when the astronauts do lots of general housekeeping. It will all kick off again on Sunday as they approach re-entry and splashdown.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my 3D image of The Moon.<br \/>\nI created this from two separate images taken by the crew as they receded from The Moon and could view it getting smaller and smaller through Yankee Clippers windows.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo12-3D-Goodbye-Moon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo12-3D-Goodbye-Moon.png 1500w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo12-3D-Goodbye-Moon-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo12-3D-Goodbye-Moon-600x596.png 600w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo12-3D-Goodbye-Moon-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo12-3D-Goodbye-Moon-1024x1018.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo12-3D-Goodbye-Moon-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo12-3D-Goodbye-Moon-768x763.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 years ago today the three Apollo 12 astronauts continue their coast back home today. They perform a mid-course correction to keep their angle towards Earth correct for a perfect re-entry on Sunday evening. So they are almost home. Not much more to say until Sunday when the astronauts do lots of general housekeeping. It [&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":"Apollo 12 - 50th Anniversary: Almost Home. - Star-Gazing","description":"50 years ago today the three Apollo 12 astronauts continue their coast back home today. They perform a mid-course correction to keep their angle towards Earth c"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3495","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\/3495","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=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3497,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}