{"id":760,"date":"2017-09-13T19:11:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T19:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=760"},"modified":"2017-09-13T19:19:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T19:19:15","slug":"cambridge-astronomical-association-15th-september-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/cambridge-astronomical-association-15th-september-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge Astronomical Association &#8211; 15th September 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday the 15th of September I will be re-visiting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caa-cya.org\/newversion\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cambridge Astronomical Association<\/strong><\/a> to give them a presentation on <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Mars &#8211; The Red Planet.<\/span> <\/strong>This coincides with their recent observing evening celebrating 140 years of Mars observing since Schiaparelli drew his infamous Canali and Asaph Hall discovered the two small moons, Phobos and Deimos.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-761\" src=\"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MarsCambridgeSep2017-1024x669.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MarsCambridgeSep2017-1024x669.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MarsCambridgeSep2017-600x392.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MarsCambridgeSep2017-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MarsCambridgeSep2017-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MarsCambridgeSep2017.jpg 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I will talk about past observations, the frustrations of observing the planet as an amateur, and review of some of the unmanned missions, both failures and successes that have visited the planet and a look at future possibilities of manned flights.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting starts at 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>The venus is:<br \/>\nThe <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ast.cam.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute of Astronomy<\/a><\/strong>,<br \/>\nMadingley Road,<br \/>\nCambridge.<br \/>\nCB3 0HA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday the 15th of September I will be re-visiting\u00a0Cambridge Astronomical Association to give them a presentation on Mars &#8211; The Red Planet. This coincides with their recent observing evening celebrating 140 years of Mars observing since Schiaparelli drew his infamous Canali and Asaph Hall discovered the two small moons, Phobos and Deimos. I will [&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":"Cambridge Astronomical Association - 15th September 2017 - Star-Gazing","description":"On Friday the 15th of September I will be re-visiting\u00a0 Cambridge Astronomical Association to give them a presentation on Mars - The Red Planet. This coincides w"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","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\/760","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=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}