{"id":59120,"date":"2012-07-10T17:10:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T21:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=59120"},"modified":"2012-07-11T06:00:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T10:00:38","slug":"have-you-set-your-alarm-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/have-you-set-your-alarm-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you set your alarm yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning on July 9th, Venus and the fixed star Aldebaran converged to form a striking planet-star pair in the pre-dawn sky. Barely more than a degree of arc — the same ‘degrees’ we mention in astrology — separate the two celestial bodies as Jupiter hovers above them from our perspective.<\/p>\n

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Venus and Jupiter; video still from a NASA ScienceCast video preview.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The planet-star configuration also includes the the Hyades cluster, which Venus just passed through a few mornings ago (not to be confused with the Pleiades, which Venus passed through a couple months ago).<\/p>\n

According to NASA.com<\/a>,<\/p>\n

On July 15, a 12% crescent Moon joins the show, forming a bright celestial triangle with Venus and Jupiter. the arms of the crescent cradle a ghostly image of the Full Moon. That’s caused by Earthshine, sunlight reflected from our own planet onto the otherwise dark lunar landscape. A crescent Moon with Earthshine is considered to be one of the prettiest sights in the heavens. A crescent Moon with Earthshine plus Venus and Jupiter — that’s worth waking up for even in the middle of summer vacation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or, you can try the ‘stay up all night’ method if, say, you keep finding yourself going to bed at 3 am anyway. What’s another hour or two? Good luck, and send us your photos! Our amazing astro-photographer Anthony Ayiomamitis in Greece is planning to shoot Venus, Jupiter and the crescent Moon the morning of July 14, and we can’t wait to see what he gets. You can check out his work here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning on July 9th, Venus and the fixed star Aldebaran converged to form a striking planet-star pair in the pre-dawn sky. Barely more than a degree of arc — the same ‘degrees’ we mention in astrology — separate the two celestial bodies as Jupiter hovers above them from our perspective. The planet-star configuration also … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}