{"id":513,"date":"2012-03-15T22:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2012-03-17T14:31:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T06:31:14","slug":"venus-and-jupiter-conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/venus-and-jupiter-conjunction","title":{"rendered":"Venus and Jupiter Conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the opportunity to witness the peak of the Venus and Jupiter conjunction on this Mar 15th. This is when these 2 planets appear to align and show up on the night sky as 2 very bright spots. According to reports around the world, this phenomenon is at its highest peak tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I was very lucky to find the conjunction happening right at my doorstep, so I got the tripod and camera out to the corridor, pointed it towards the planets and took a shot. It was also nice to have the HDB flats opposite to act as foreground interest.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 424px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7044\/6984653759_310f7c330a_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venus &amp; Jupiter conjunction at my doorstep on 15 Mar 2012 09:31pm SGT. The brighter spot on the right is Venus, and the on the left is Jupiter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the opportunity to witness the peak of the Venus and Jupiter conjunction on this Mar 15th. This is when these 2 planets appear to align and show up on the night sky as 2 very bright spots. According to reports around the world, this phenomenon is at its highest peak tonight. I was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/venus-and-jupiter-conjunction\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Venus and Jupiter Conjunction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[217,216,215,21,214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}