{"id":15,"date":"2015-03-02T11:17:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T11:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2015-03-07T14:29:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T14:29:54","slug":"whats-up-in-tonights-sky-monday-march-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Whats Up in tonight&#8217;s Sky Monday March 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just at Sunset Venus is high in the evening sky in the west.<\/p>\n<p>The bright planet near the waxing gibbous Moon tonight is Jupiter. Jupiter is actually 40 times larger than the Moon in diameter, but it&#8217;s 1,660 times farther away (as of tonight).<\/p>\n<p><em><b>Another mutual event among Jupiter&#8217;s moons.<\/b><\/em> Tonight Ganymede occults Io from 11:06 to 11:11 p.m. EST; their combined light dims by 0.6 magnitude at the center of this time. Later Ganymede casts its shadow onto Io, but just a few minutes beforehand, Io disappears behind Jupiter&#8217;s edge from Earth&#8217;s viewpoint! (at 12:17 a.m. EST).<\/p>\n<p>Watch and subscribe to the Youtube Astronomy For Everyone channel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCaU1Vl91MgoYxq0MfTm9KVw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCaU1Vl91MgoYxq0MfTm9KVw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just at Sunset Venus is high in the evening sky in the west. The bright planet near the waxing gibbous Moon tonight is Jupiter. Jupiter is actually 40 times larger <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=15\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","category-whatsup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}