{"id":24917,"date":"2022-05-18T04:56:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T04:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24917"},"modified":"2022-05-18T04:56:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T04:56:43","slug":"a-jewel-on-the-flower-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24917","title":{"rendered":"A Jewel on the Flower Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2205\/DiamondMoonWSMALL1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Cloudy skies plagued some sky watchers on Sunday as May&#8217;s Full Flower Moon slipped through Earth&#8217;s shadow in a total lunar eclipse. In skies above Chile&#8217;s Atacama desert this telephoto snapshot still captured an awesome spectacle though. Seen through thin high cirrus clouds just before totality began, a last sliver of sunlit crescent glistens like a hazy jewel atop the mostly shadowed lunar disk. This full moon was near perigee, the closest point in its elliptical orbit. It passed near the center of Earth&#8217;s dark umbral shadow during the 90 minute long total eclipse phase. Faintly suffused with sunlight scattered by the atmosphere, the umbral shadow itself gave the eclipsed moon a reddened appearance and the very dramatic popular moniker of a Blood Moon. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap220518.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudy skies plagued some sky watchers on Sunday as May&#8217;s Full Flower Moon slipped through Earth&#8217;s shadow in a total lunar eclipse. In skies above Chile&#8217;s Atacama desert this telephoto <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24917\" 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-24917","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\/24917","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=24917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24918,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24917\/revisions\/24918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}