{"id":3155,"date":"2020-05-22T18:28:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T17:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=3155"},"modified":"2020-05-22T18:28:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T17:28:58","slug":"looking-for-the-messenger-of-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=3155","title":{"rendered":"Looking for the messenger of the gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury can be an elusive planet, it is not very bright and is always near to the Sun so in twilight.&nbsp; It can also be dangerous to look for if you have not let the Sun set.&nbsp; However for those that have never seen it now is your chance.&nbsp; This evening (22 May) it will be very close to Venus, which is really easily to spot as twilight falls in the north west.&nbsp; At 10pm BST Venus will be on an azimuth of around 298 degrees and at altitude from the horizon in Abergavenny of around 10 degrees, so pretty low.&nbsp; Mercury will be very close by to Venus&#8217; left side (east).&nbsp; It has a good chance of being clear so why not go out and have a look.&nbsp; Maybe a good photo opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury can be an elusive planet, it is not very bright and is always near to the Sun so in twilight.&nbsp; It can also be dangerous to look for if you have not let the Sun set.&nbsp; However for those that have never seen it now is your chance.&nbsp; This evening (22 May) it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}