{"id":541,"date":"2020-08-28T23:09:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T07:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=541"},"modified":"2020-08-28T23:09:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T07:09:24","slug":"jupiter-saturn-and-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2020\/08\/28\/jupiter-saturn-and-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came back from walking the dogs and saw a wonderful triad of the Moon, Jupiter, and Saturn\u2014in a clear sky (by Boston standards), and right above my driveway. If I\u2019m ever going to bring that beautiful Celestron telescope down from the dining room, I thought, this should be the time. So I limbered up with some back exercises\u2014or should have\u2014and lugged it downstairs. What a beautiful view! The Moon was glorious, Jupiter was spectacular, and Saturn was elusive. Finally I found it, though, with its rings tilted at a rakish angle. I texted my family, I phoned them: <em>Get down here!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is them, taking their turns at the scope.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starrigger.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Allysen-Lexi-Connor-at-telescope_20200828_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"443\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is the worst astronomical picture ever: Jupiter and the Galilean moons, imaged with an Android phone held shakily to the eyepiece. I thought all I\u2019d gotten was a blur. But when I checked later, I was pleased to see a recognizable picture of the planet! (The big blue smudge is an artifact. Either that, or it\u2019s Neptune, photobombing my shot.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starrigger.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Jupiter-through-Celestron_20200828_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a world filled with wildfires, hurricanes, pandemic, and walking calamities in high public office, sometimes you just need a little piece of the cosmos to calm you down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came back from walking the dogs and saw a wonderful triad of the Moon, Jupiter, and Saturn\u2014in a clear sky (by Boston standards), and right above my driveway. If I\u2019m ever going to bring that beautiful Celestron telescope down from the dining room, I thought, this should be the time. So I limbered up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-experiences","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}