{"id":7586,"date":"2022-12-02T07:39:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T07:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=7586"},"modified":"2022-12-02T07:41:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T07:41:43","slug":"occ-mars-20221208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/occ-mars-20221208\/","title":{"rendered":"Occultation of Mars &#8211; 8th December 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the early morning of the 8th of December on the day of Mars reaching opposition, The Moon moves in front of (occults) Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Timing is roughly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Disappearance: 04:58 UT.<br \/>\nMars disappears near crater Grimaldi.<\/p>\n<p>Reappearance at the bright limb, by Mare Australe: 05:57 UT.<\/p>\n<p>The timings shown are as seen from my location, so your timings may be slightly different from these.<\/p>\n<p>The speeded up animation below, created using Stellarium, shows what we might be able to see at disappearance and reappearance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1PGg8xRJVDE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early morning of the 8th of December on the day of Mars reaching opposition, The Moon moves in front of (occults) Mars. Timing is roughly&#8230; Disappearance: 04:58 UT. Mars disappears near crater Grimaldi. Reappearance at the bright limb, by Mare Australe: 05:57 UT. The timings shown are as seen from my location, so [&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":"Occultation of Mars - 8th December 2022 - Star-Gazing","description":"In the early morning of the 8th of December on the day of Mars reaching opposition, The Moon moves in front of (occults) Mars. Timing is roughly... Disappearanc"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586","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=7586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7588,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions\/7588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}