{"id":230,"date":"2015-02-20T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/?p=230"},"modified":"2015-02-20T06:29:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T22:29:55","slug":"february-20-21-2015-triple-celestial-conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/2015\/02\/february-20-21-2015-triple-celestial-conjunction\/","title":{"rendered":"February 20-21, 2015: Triple Celestial Conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234\" style=\"width: 798px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150220_MoonConjunction1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"798\" height=\"599\" class=\"wp-image-234 size-large\" alt=\"Conjunction of Mars and Venus on Feb 20, 2015\" src=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150220_MoonConjunction1-1024x768.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150220_MoonConjunction1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150220_MoonConjunction1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150220_MoonConjunction1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150220_MoonConjunction1.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conjunction of Mars and Venus on Feb 20, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-235\" style=\"width: 798px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150221_MoonConjunction1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"798\" height=\"599\" class=\"wp-image-235 size-large\" alt=\"Conjunction of Mars and Venus on Feb 21, 2015\" src=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150221_MoonConjunction1-1024x768.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150221_MoonConjunction1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150221_MoonConjunction1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150221_MoonConjunction1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150221_MoonConjunction1.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conjunction of Mars and Venus on Feb 21, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Bandar Seri Begawan<\/strong> &#8211; Look west in twilight on February 20 and 21 as two planets, Venus and\u00a0 Mars,\u00a0appear close one another in the sky and will be accompanied by the thin moon crescent. The celestial phenomena\u00a0 known as\u00a0conjunctions occur when celestial bodies have the same right ascension or the same ecliptic longitude as seen from the Earth. While it would be very low in the twilight sky, it might be an interesting photo opportunity. \u00a0Venus will be\u00a0shining bright in the west after sunset and sky gazers can locate Mars as they are separated within 1 degree apart.\u00a0If the weather cooperates, it could be a spectacular image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandar Seri Begawan &#8211; Look west in twilight on February 20 and 21 as two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27,58,9,7,8],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-conjunction","tag-mars","tag-moon","tag-news","tag-venus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","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=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}