{"id":1227,"date":"2009-04-21T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T20:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.TripInsuranceStore.com\/blog\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2009-04-21T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T20:40:13","slug":"moon-occults-venus-on-april-22-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/moon-occults-venus-on-april-22-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon Occults Venus on April 22, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><a title=\"Subscribe to my Wall Street Journal Recommended Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/wCXYr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t miss this celestial treat early Wednesday, April 22nd:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Early risers in North America are in for a treat on the morning of Wednesday, April 22nd, when the waning crescent Moon passes in front of the brilliant crescent Venus. <a title=\"Sky &#038; Telescop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/astronomy-news\/observing-news\/a-daring-pairing-of-moon-and-venus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source: Sky &#038; Telescope<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Venus\" src=\"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/graphics\/Venus+occultation+4-09+Moon.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nThe apparent path of Venus behind the Moon on April 22, 2009, depends on where you are. The local horizon is approximately downward; celestial north is to the upper left.<\/p>\n<p>Observers in the western U.S. have an opportunity to see Venus perform a rare disappearing act. Known as an &#8220;occultation&#8221;, the event will occur as the Moon&#8217;s eastward orbital motion carries it in front of the silvery-white planet, temporarily hiding it from view. As seen from Los Angeles, Venus will disappear behind the crescent Moon during morning twilight at 05:06 PDT. The planet will reappear shortly before sunrise at 05:57 PDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe Don&#8217;t miss this celestial treat early Wednesday, April 22nd: Early risers in North America are in for a treat on the morning of Wednesday, April 22nd, when the waning crescent Moon passes in front of the brilliant crescent Venus. Source: Sky &#038; Telescope The apparent path of Venus behind the Moon on April 22, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[35,122,213,230,271,288,310,332],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expert-travel-insurance-advice","tag-astronomy","tag-family","tag-moon","tag-outdoors","tag-science","tag-space","tag-travel-insurance","tag-venus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}