{"id":7075,"date":"2020-04-18T10:09:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T02:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/?p=7075"},"modified":"2020-04-18T10:09:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T02:09:11","slug":"2020-apr-17-a-spectacular-cosmic-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/2020\/04\/2020-apr-17-a-spectacular-cosmic-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Apr 17 A Spectacular Cosmic Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Bandar Seri Begawan &#8211; Three<\/strong> planets and moon all aligned and visible to the naked eyes before dawn today, Friday, April 17, 2020. Here are some amazing moments caught by stargazers around Brunei:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment01.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment01-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[1] Very bright Jupiter at top, Saturn in the middle, Mars at bottom with the Moon below it, plus vividly milky way background (Photo by Hazarry @zrryahmad of PABD from Keriam, Tutong)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment02.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment02-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment02-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[2] A prologue to the Lyrids meteor shower peaks, a small shooting star streak was caught on camera during the planetary alignment today (Photo by Hazarry @zrryahmad of PABD from Keriam, Tutong)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment03-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment03-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment03-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment03-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[3] 23-day old waning Moon crescent at 06.16 am from Gadong (Photo by JT, Nikon Coolpix P900, 428.4mm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment04.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment04.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment04-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment04-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[4] Jupiter and its bright Jovian moons (Photo by Ridzuan HM, Canon EOS 7D\/840mm, 1.4x with 600mm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment05.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment05.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment05-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment05-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment06.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment06.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment06-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200417_planetaryalignment06-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[5 &amp; 6] Smartphone astrophotos are cool! Rabaah used her Oppo F9 camera to capture the bright planets and the Moon few minutes before sunrise, 5.56 am. Miera Wu captured the planets line up using her Vivo Y12 mobile camera phone from RPN Meragang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The planets parade is still visible this week in the Southeast direction, at best 2-3 hours before sunrise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join our Group discussion and share your cosmic photo\/moment via Telegram t.me\/bruneiastronomy or WhatsApp www.bruneiastronomy.org\/wa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandar Seri Begawan &#8211; Three planets and moon all aligned and visible to the naked&#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":[],"class_list":["post-7075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075","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=7075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}