{"id":97,"date":"2015-04-03T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2015-04-01T23:44:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T23:44:54","slug":"whats-up-in-the-nights-sky-april-3rd-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Up in the Nights Sky April 3rd 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <b>total eclipse of the Moon<\/b> happens before or during dawn Saturday morning for the western half of North America; the farther west you are the better. It happens during Saturday evening for Australia and the Far East. This eclipse is <i>barely<\/i> total and for only about 12 minutes, from about 11:54 to 12:06 April 4th UT (GMT). Partial eclipse begins at 10:15 UT and ends at 13:45 UT. For maps and more, see the April <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/subscribe?utm_source=AM&amp;utm_medium=ar&amp;utm_campaign=AMstar032715\">Sky &amp; Telescope<\/a>,<\/em> page 50, or the version online: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/astronomy-news\/observing-news\/preview-of-april-4ths-total-lunar-eclipse-033020152\/\" target=\"_blank\">Preview of April 4th\u2019s Total Lunar Eclipse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t see it from where you are? Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles will run a <a href=\"http:\/\/new.livestream.com\/GriffithObservatoryTV\" target=\"_blank\">live webcast<\/a> from 11:00 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (4:00 to 7:30 April 4th UT).<\/p>\n<p>On Friday <i>evening<\/i> for North America, the full Moon shines in Virgo with Spica well to its lower left, as shown here. Much closer to the Moon is fainter Gamma Virginis (Porrima), a close telescopic double star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total eclipse of the Moon happens before or during dawn Saturday morning for the western half of North America; the farther west you are the better. It happens during <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=97\" 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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}