{"id":24667,"date":"2022-01-06T06:04:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T06:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24667"},"modified":"2022-01-06T06:04:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T06:04:34","slug":"the-last-days-of-venus-as-the-evening-star-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24667","title":{"rendered":"The Last Days of Venus as the Evening Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2201\/venus_220101_ladanyi_web1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>That&#8217;s not a young crescent Moon posing behind cathedral towers after sunset. It&#8217;s Venus in a crescent phase. About 40 million kilometers away and about 2 percent illuminated by sunlight, it was captured with camera and telephoto lens in this series of exposures as it set in western skies on January 1 from Veszprem, Hungary. The bright celestial beacon was languishing in the evening twilight, its days as the Evening Star coming to a close as 2022 began. But it was also growing larger in apparent size and becoming an ever thinner crescent in telescopic views. Heading toward a (non-judgemental) inferior conjunction, the inner planet will be positioned between Earth and Sun on January 9 and generally lost from view in the solar glare. A crescent Venus will soon reappear though. Rising in the east by mid-month just before the Sun as the brilliant Morning Star. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap220106.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s not a young crescent Moon posing behind cathedral towers after sunset. It&#8217;s Venus in a crescent phase. About 40 million kilometers away and about 2 percent illuminated by sunlight, <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24667\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-24667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24667","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=24667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24668,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24667\/revisions\/24668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}