{"id":770,"date":"2016-05-09T12:42:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T18:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/blog\/?p=770"},"modified":"2016-05-09T12:42:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T18:42:44","slug":"transit-of-mercury-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/blog\/transit-of-mercury-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit of Mercury 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marianboardley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0295.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-771\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-771\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marianboardley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0295.jpg?resize=375%2C456&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG_0295\" width=\"375\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marianboardley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0295.jpg?w=375&amp;ssl=1 375w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marianboardley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0295.jpg?resize=247%2C300&amp;ssl=1 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning, instead of writing documentation, I was observing the transit of Mercury. \u00a0Mercury is the small dot against the bright solar background, that you can see at about 7 o&#8217;clock, the larger smudge above center is a sunspot. \u00a0As observed from Utah, the transit started before dawn, and due to rain and cloud, I could not see the sun until around 9:45am. but then the skies cleared and I had a great view!<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Ken Kolb, who gave me a Meade 4.5&#8243; reflector on Saturday, I was able to see the transit really well. \u00a0The above photo was taken of the projected sun image with my iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>Note: NEVER LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN THRU A TELESCOPE without using appropriate filters or projection techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, instead of writing documentation, I was observing the transit of Mercury. \u00a0Mercury is the small dot against the bright solar background, that you can see at about 7 o&#8217;clock, the larger smudge above center is a sunspot. \u00a0As observed from Utah, the transit started before dawn, and due to rain and cloud, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/blog\/transit-of-mercury-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transit of Mercury 2016<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-transit-of-mercury-2016"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Lzp2-cq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}