{"id":99,"date":"2024-03-07T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2024-03-07T22:56:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T22:56:24","slug":"planetary-transits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/solar-exposures\/planetary-transits\/","title":{"rendered":"Planetary Transits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">Transits of Venus occur rarely, in pairs 8 years apart, at intervals of 121.5 and 105.5 years. The next Venus transit visible on our planet will be in 2117. Venus is clearly visible against the bright solar background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:0;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:0;grid-template-columns:43% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-4-300x284.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-4-300x284.png 300w, https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-4-1024x969.png 1024w, https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-4-150x142.png 150w, https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-4-768x727.png 768w, https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-4.png 1232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">\u2640 Transit of Venus <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family\">June 5, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family\">Chaco Culture National Historical Park, NM&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family\">Photograph of projected telescope image&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">Transits of Mercury are seen more frequently than transits of Venus: about thirteen occur each century. The planet Mercury is much smaller than Venus and further from Earth, and is barely visible as a tiny black dot in this picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:0;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:0;grid-template-columns:44% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-1.png 300w, https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">\u263f Transit of Mercury <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-medium-font-size\">May 9, 2016 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-medium-font-size\">Spanish Valley, Moab, UT<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-medium-font-size\">Cyanotype on cotton paper<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transits of Venus occur rarely, in pairs 8 years apart, at intervals of 121.5 and 105.5 years. The next Venus transit visible on our planet will be in 2117. Venus is clearly visible against the bright solar background. \u2640 Transit of Venus June 5, 2012 Chaco Culture National Historical Park, NM&nbsp; Photograph of projected telescope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-99","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions\/104"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianboardley.com\/cyanotypes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}