{"id":1409,"date":"2015-04-12T20:30:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T12:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2018-08-12T14:29:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T06:29:02","slug":"2015-apr-10-close-conjunction-of-venus-and-the-seven-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/2015\/04\/2015-apr-10-close-conjunction-of-venus-and-the-seven-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Apr 10 Close Conjunction of Venus and the Seven Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A very bright Venus side by side with the beautiful cluster of stars, Pleiades, in the constellation Taurus.
CanonEOS 10mm f\/4.0 ISO-1600 15sec<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Update April 12, 2015: Another change to view a celestial conjunction of Venus and Pleiades today. Clear sky!<\/p>\n

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Venus and the Pleiades on April 10, 2015, from Brunei<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The brilliance of Venus and a beautiful set of “Seven Sisters” star cluster (the Pleiades) are visible very close to each other from Pantai Seri Kenangan, Tutong, at dusk today.<\/p>\n

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UniverseToday.com stated that “Every 8 years on mid-April evenings, Venus skirts the Pleiades just as it\u2019s doing this week. Think back to April 2007 and you might remember a similar passage; a repeat will happen in April 2023. Venus\u2019 cyclical visits to the Seven Sisters occur because the planet\u2019s motion relative to the Sun repeats every 8 years as seen from Earth\u2019s skies. No matter where and when you see Venus \u2013 morning or evening, high or low \u2013 you\u2019ll see it in nearly the same place 8 years from that date.”<\/p>\n

The spectacular close conjunction will be observable to the naked eyes until next week (April 17). Look west after sunset and clear skies!!<\/p>\n

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Venus and the Pleiades<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update April 12, 2015: Another change to view a celestial conjunction of Venus and Pleiades…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[27,7,119,118,8],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","tag-conjunction","tag-news","tag-seven-sisters","tag-the-pleiades","tag-venus","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}