{"id":674,"date":"2010-07-21T08:52:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T15:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/?p=674"},"modified":"2010-07-21T08:52:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T15:52:12","slug":"the-sky-this-week-2010-july-20-27-naval-oceanography-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"The Sky This Week, 2010 July 20 &#8211; 27 \u2014 Naval Oceanography Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2010-july-20-27\">The Sky This Week, 2010 July 20 &#8211; 27 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The late twilight of the evening sky finds the beginnings of a planetary \u00e2\u20ac\u0153traffic jam\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the southwest.&#160; Venus will be the most obvious planet as the light of early evening fades, and she is steadily closing in on ruddy Mars and gold-hued Saturn.&#160; I happened to view Venus shortly before she set last weekend from down on the Northern Neck of Virginia.&#160; Thanks to a flat horizon, thin clouds, and haze, the normally dazzling white planet was glowing like a single orange-red coal in a dying campfire.&#160; She spends the week in restless pursuit of Mars and Saturn, which are gearing up for their own conjunction next week.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>The late night sky now welcomes the bright glow of Jupiter, who is doggedly rising about four minutes earlier each night.&#160; Old Jove reaches the first stationary point in the current apparition on the night of the 23rd, pausing for a few days in his eastward motion before seeming to back up toward the west over the course of the next four months.&#160; Late night skywatchers are now enjoying the view of the giant planet in their telescopes.&#160; Soon he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be delighting even those of us with early bedtimes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2010-july-20-27\">The Sky This Week, 2010 July 20 &#8211; 27 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky This Week, 2010 July 20 &#8211; 27 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal The late twilight of the evening sky finds the beginnings of a planetary \u00e2\u20ac\u0153traffic jam\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the southwest.&#160; Venus will be the most obvious planet as the light of early evening fades, and she is steadily closing in on ruddy Mars and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=674\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sky This Week, 2010 July 20 &#8211; 27 \u2014 Naval Oceanography Portal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}