{"id":9,"date":"2006-08-11T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2006-08-11T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T21:08:00","slug":"mars-close-to-earth-aug-27th-it-was-in-2003-posted-aug-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Mars close to Earth Aug 27th.  it was&#8230; in 2003.  posted Aug 11th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2003- I&#8217;ve been seeing a few emails about Mars being extremely close to Earth this August 27th, so much that it appears as large as the moon&#8230; and having got into astronomy awhile ago, this sounded pretty impossible. It is&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanlegends.about.com\/library\/bl_mars_encounter.htm\">http:\/\/urbanlegends.about.com\/library\/bl_mars_encounter.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However with our 6&#8243; Dobsonian from Skywatcher, we can get pretty good views of Saturn and Jupiter&#8230; and that&#8217;s with all the light and atmospheric pollution from the city! It&#8217;s pretty surreal to see Saturn&#8217;s ring with your own eyes, and you can clearly see 4 or Jupiter&#8217;s moons. The 90mm Maksutov (also from Skywatcher) isn&#8217;t bad either, it&#8217;s much more portable and you can almost get as much detail as the much larger Dob.<\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t tracked down Mercury, Venus, or Mars yet, but will get to it one clear night. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2003- I&#8217;ve been seeing a few emails about Mars being extremely close to Earth this August 27th, so much that it appears as large as the moon&#8230; and having got into astronomy awhile ago, this sounded pretty impossible. It is&#8230; http:\/\/urbanlegends.about.com\/library\/bl_mars_encounter.htm However with our 6&#8243; Dobsonian from Skywatcher, we can get pretty good views of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}