{"id":4306,"date":"2024-12-10T18:38:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T18:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=4306"},"modified":"2024-12-10T18:38:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T18:38:41","slug":"november-meeting-pale-blue-dot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=4306","title":{"rendered":"November Meeting &#8211; Pale Blue Dot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the last meeting in November, where Andrew gave a very interesting talk on Saturn, the topic of the Pale Blue Dot was raised.<br>This refers to a photograph taken by Voyager 1 on the 14<sup>th<\/sup> February, 1990 from beyond the planet Neptune, a distance of 6 billion km (3.7 billion miles).\u00a0 On the photo the Earth was less than 1 pixel.<br>In case anyone is interested the passage that Carl Sagan wrote in 1994 to go with the picture is on YouTube (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GO5FwsblpT8\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>).\u00a0 I have also put a copy on the download page (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?download=4311&amp;tmstv=1733855584\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the last meeting in November, where Andrew gave a very interesting talk on Saturn, the topic of the Pale Blue Dot was raised.This refers to a photograph taken by Voyager 1 on the 14th February, 1990 from beyond the planet Neptune, a distance of 6 billion km (3.7 billion miles).\u00a0 On the photo the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4317,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions\/4317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}