{"id":3634,"date":"2019-12-29T11:08:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T11:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2019-12-29T11:11:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T11:11:21","slug":"moon-venus-2011229","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/moon-venus-2011229\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon and Venus &#8211; 29th December 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the final days of 2019 count down, later this evening The Moon and Venus are still fairly close together.<\/p>\n<p>So as the sky darkens, look towards the south-western sky at about 17:00 UT to catch this lovely view.<br \/>\nThe Moon should show very strong earthshine as the night side of The Moon is illuminated by sunlight reflected off Earth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moon-Venus-20191229.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moon-Venus-20191229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moon-Venus-20191229.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moon-Venus-20191229-600x454.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moon-Venus-20191229-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moon-Venus-20191229-768x581.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moon-Venus-20191229-210x159.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the final days of 2019 count down, later this evening The Moon and Venus are still fairly close together. So as the sky darkens, look towards the south-western sky at about 17:00 UT to catch this lovely view. The Moon should show very strong earthshine as the night side of The Moon is illuminated [&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":"Moon and Venus - 29th December 2019 - Star-Gazing","description":"As the final days of 2019 count down, later this evening The Moon and Venus are still fairly close together. So as the sky darkens, look towards the south-weste"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3634","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\/3634","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=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3636,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions\/3636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}