{"id":26047,"date":"2024-07-19T05:56:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T05:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26047"},"modified":"2024-07-19T05:56:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T05:56:21","slug":"anticrepuscular-rays-at-the-planet-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26047","title":{"rendered":"Anticrepuscular Rays at the Planet Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2407\/2024-07-11Pavel_1024p.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>For some, these subtle bands of light and shadow stretched across the sky as the Sun set on July 11. Known as anticrepuscular rays, the bands are formed as a large cloud bank near the western horizon cast long shadows through the atmosphere at sunset. Due to the camera&#8217;s perspective, the bands of light and shadow seem to converge toward the eastern (opposite) horizon at a point seen just above a 14th century hilltop castle near Brno, Czech Republic. In the foreground, denizens of planet Earth are enjoying the region&#8217;s annual Planet Festival in the park below the Brno Observatory and Planetarium. And while crepuscular and anticrepuscular rays are a relatively common atmospheric phenomenon, this festival&#8217;s 10 meter diameter inflatable spheres representing bodies of the Solar System are less often seen on planet Earth. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap240719.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some, these subtle bands of light and shadow stretched across the sky as the Sun set on July 11. Known as anticrepuscular rays, the bands are formed as a <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26047\" 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-26047","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\/26047","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=26047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26048,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26047\/revisions\/26048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}