{"id":18402,"date":"2022-12-08T08:58:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T08:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18402"},"modified":"2022-12-08T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T22:00:01","slug":"mars-occultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18402","title":{"rendered":"Mars occultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18403\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/C7EL4846gecs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/C7EL4846gecs.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/C7EL4846gecs-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18415\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/marsC7EL4849-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>We got up this morning at 4:30am to be greeted by cloud cover, but within 15 minutes it had cleared, allowing us to see the occultation of Mars by the Moon, starting just before 5am from Leeds. This is a quick and dirty upload, and a rather poor animation; more later perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>The photos were taken through an ETX125 telescope with an attached Canon 7D camera, controlled from a Pixel 6a mobile running the excellent <em>DSLR Controller<\/em> app. There&#8217;s just a suggestion of surface detail on Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got up this morning at 4:30am to be greeted by cloud cover, but within 15 minutes it had cleared, allowing us to see the occultation of Mars by the Moon, starting just before 5am from Leeds. This is a quick and dirty upload, and a rather poor animation; more later perhaps. The photos were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18402\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mars occultation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18402"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18416,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18402\/revisions\/18416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}