{"id":6882,"date":"2020-03-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/?p=6882"},"modified":"2020-03-21T08:10:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T00:10:23","slug":"2020-mar-21-spectacular-close-pairing-of-jupiter-and-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/2020\/03\/2020-mar-21-spectacular-close-pairing-of-jupiter-and-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Mar 21 Spectacular Close Pairing of Jupiter and Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tutong &#8211; The<\/strong> 3 bright planets &#8211; Jupiter, Mars and Saturn &#8211; gather with the crescent Moon in astronomical twilight this morning (March 21, 2020) from Tutong, Brunei Darussalam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200321_MarsJupiterCollection.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200321_MarsJupiterCollection.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200321_MarsJupiterCollection-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200321_MarsJupiterCollection-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The largest planet Jupiter with its four Jovian moons and the red planet Mars visibly fit in the same FOV of a small telescope (about 0.7\u00b0 separation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These photos of planetary conjunction were taken by Hazarry from Kampong Keriam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200321_MarsJupiter-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200321_MarsJupiter-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200321_MarsJupiter-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200321_MarsJupiter-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200321_MarsJupiter-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200321_MarsJupiter-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200321_themoon-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200321_themoon-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200321_themoon-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200321_themoon-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200321_themoon-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200321_themoon-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutong &#8211; The 3 bright planets &#8211; Jupiter, Mars and Saturn &#8211; gather with the&#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":[3,61],"tags":[27,29,58,9,280,322],"class_list":["post-6882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-gallery","tag-conjunction","tag-jupiter","tag-mars","tag-moon","tag-planet","tag-saturn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882","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=6882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}