{"id":1933,"date":"2020-12-08T22:51:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T03:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2020-12-08T22:51:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T03:51:09","slug":"christmas-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/2020\/12\/08\/christmas-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Star"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is truly a once in a lifetime event. More accurately a once in many lifetimes event. Jupiter and Saturn will be extremely close together. As in  view them both in one eyepiece or a pair of binoculars close together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without visual aid they will look like a single very bright star &#8211; some are calling this the &#8220;Christmas star&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it is interesting this will also be the Winter Solstice for 2020. Every day is longer from this point forward until the middle of summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"347\" height=\"347\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christmas_star_2020_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1934\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christmas_star_2020_1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/?attachment_id=1934\" class=\"wp-image-1934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christmas_star_2020_1.jpg 347w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christmas_star_2020_1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christmas_star_2020_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christmas_star_2020_1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Looking west\/soutwest 45 minutes after sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christmas_star_2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1935\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christmas_star_2020.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/?attachment_id=1935\" class=\"wp-image-1935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christmas_star_2020.jpg 526w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christmas_star_2020-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christmas_star_2020-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christmas_star_2020-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is where I&#8217;ll be on Monday evening December 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is truly a once in a lifetime event. More accurately a once in many lifetimes event. Jupiter and Saturn will be extremely close together. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-public","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}