{"id":697,"date":"2013-02-18T23:43:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T15:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2013-02-19T22:36:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T14:36:31","slug":"moon-passing-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/moon-passing-jupiter","title":{"rendered":"Moon Passing Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8231\/8484933835_9cb5ff26cc_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The moon passing Jupiter on the night of 18 Feb 2013 at 10:22pm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I saw the half moon in the very clear sky tonight and decided to take a photo of it. Using a Nikon FT-1 adaptor, I mounted my Nikkor AF 80-200mm f\/2.8D ED-IF to my Nikon 1 V1 to get as much magnification as possible. This combination gives an effective focal length of 540mm, which actually still isn&#8217;t as close as I&#8217;d like, so I had to crop the final picture.<\/p>\n<p>After posting to Facebook, I realised that a friend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photojournalist-tgh.tv\" target=\"_blank\">Genghui<\/a> has also posted a similar shot and mentioned that the moon was passing Jupiter (the bright dot below the moon in the photo above.) I had originally thought it was Venus as that&#8217;s usually the brightest celestial object close to the moon.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a title=\"Moon passing Jupiter over President's Day weekend\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/19842-moon-near-jupiter-stargazing-tips.html\" target=\"_blank\">Space.com<\/a>, tonight is when the moon will be closest to Jupiter. I am glad to be able to see and photograph this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the half moon in the very clear sky tonight and decided to take a photo of it. Using a Nikon FT-1 adaptor, I mounted my Nikkor AF 80-200mm f\/2.8D ED-IF to my Nikon 1 V1 to get as much magnification as possible. This combination gives an effective focal length of 540mm, which actually&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/moon-passing-jupiter\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moon Passing Jupiter<\/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":[217,216,215,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697"}],"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=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}