{"id":416,"date":"2007-06-26T13:02:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T18:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2012-12-21T11:02:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:02:55","slug":"venus-and-saturn-in-the-evening-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"VENUS AND SATURN AT TWILIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Venus and Saturn at Twilight. Photo copyright Jim Doty Jr.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/07f22_rnr05_138c_6636_wb4.jpg\" alt=\"Venus and Saturn at Twilight. Photo copyright Jim Doty Jr.\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Venus and Saturn at Twilight. Photo \u00c2\u00a9 Jim Doty Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As I drove back to Seattle from Mt. Rainier National Park, I was watching Venus, the brightest object (except for the the moon) in the western sky this month. Saturn is the dim planet at the upper left. I wanted something to put in the foreground and decided I needed a row of evergreens. I couldn&#8217;t take too long since the sky was getting darker and I would begin to hit towns and city lights. This was the best bunch I could find that wasn&#8217;t completely obscured by clouds.<\/p>\n<p>Venus and Saturn are moving towards each other and will be less than 1 degree apart on the evening of June 30.<\/p>\n<p><em>Data: Canon 5D, Canon EF 24-105mm f\/4L lens at 105mm. ISO: 100. Aperture: f\/5.6. Shutter: 4 seconds.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venus and Saturn at Twilight. Photo \u00c2\u00a9 Jim Doty Jr. As I drove back to Seattle from Mt. Rainier National Park, I was watching Venus, the brightest object (except for the the moon) in the western sky this month. Saturn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=416\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3609,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}