{"id":6872,"date":"2020-03-15T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2020-03-15T18:53:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T10:53:20","slug":"planets-gathering-join-the-moon-from-march-18-until-21-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/2020\/03\/planets-gathering-join-the-moon-from-march-18-until-21-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Planets Gatherings Join the Moon from March 18 until 21, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200318_conjunct_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200318_conjunct_01.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200318_conjunct_01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200318_conjunct_01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200318_conjunct_01-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200318_conjunct_01-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bandar Seri Begawan &#8211; These<\/strong> are some of exciting and not to be missed cosmic events visible in Brunei to look up next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>March 18 until March 20, 2020:<\/strong> Three bright planets \u2013 Mars, Jupiter and Saturn- will join the crescent moon to form a cosmic cluster in the Eastern sky at dawn from Brunei Darussalam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Friday and Saturday dawn (March 19 and 20)<\/strong>: Mars and the gas giant Jupiter will be in close conjunction when both planets are less than 1\u00b0 apart. They are very close enough (0.7 degree separation) to both fit into the same field of view with a telescope or binocular. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200318_conjunct_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200318_conjunct_02.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200318_conjunct_02-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200318_conjunct_02-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200318_conjunct_02-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200318_conjunct_02-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Friday, March 20, 2020:<\/strong> The earliest vernal equinox is at 11:51 am since 1896. It occurs when the sun passes directly over the equator and day and night have the same length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hopefully,\nweather will cooperate for this cosmic conjunction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandar Seri Begawan &#8211; These are some of exciting and not to be missed cosmic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27,29,58,9,280,322],"class_list":["post-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-conjunction","tag-jupiter","tag-mars","tag-moon","tag-planet","tag-saturn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872","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=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}