{"id":10230,"date":"2015-10-08T10:49:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T14:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10230"},"modified":"2015-10-08T10:49:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T14:49:13","slug":"038366-cloudy-conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/10\/08\/038366-cloudy-conjunction\/","title":{"rendered":"038\/366: Cloudy Conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"

In yesterday’s crude astrophotography post<\/a>, I mentioned that the conjunction of Venus and the Moon would be closer this morning, but I took a shot of it yesterday because there’s no telling with the weather here this time of year. When I first went outside this morning, though, the sky was beautiful and clear and I said “Wow, that’ll be a great shot after all.” <\/p>\n

Then I went inside to eat breakfast, and when I came back out, clouds had rolled in.<\/p>\n

There were occasional breaks, though, and I did manage to get a fortuitous alignment of two of those with the bodies in question. which let me make the following composite from consecutive days:<\/p>\n

\"Shots<\/a>
Shots of the Moon and Venus from yesterday (left) and today (right).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These are cropped so the vertical scale is the same for both, and Venus is on the 1\/3rd line up from the bottom. Today’s shot wasn’t quite framed the same as yesterday’s, though, thus the white space on the right, which would’ve been filled if I could get a full 4×6 crop at that scale.<\/p>\n

Here’s a closer crop of today’s shot with the usual 4×6 aspect ratio:<\/p>\n

\"Venus<\/a>
Venus and the crescent Moon through clouds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That composite of the two gives a nice sense of how things move in the sky, and I have other stuff I need to work on today, so we’ll call it the photo of the day, and move along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In yesterday’s crude astrophotography post, I mentioned that the conjunction of Venus and the Moon would be closer this morning, but I took a shot of it yesterday because there’s no telling with the weather here this time of year. When I first went outside this morning, though, the sky was beautiful and clear and… Continue reading 038\/366: Cloudy Conjunction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,10,50,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-astronomy","category-pictures","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}