{"id":147799,"date":"2022-10-08T15:25:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T20:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/see-the-moon-visit-jupiter-saturday-evening-oct-8"},"modified":"2022-10-08T15:25:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T20:25:22","slug":"see-the-moon-visit-jupiter-saturday-evening-oct-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/see-the-moon-visit-jupiter-saturday-evening-oct-8","title":{"rendered":"See the moon visit Jupiter Saturday evening (Oct. 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/see-the-moon-visit-jupiter-saturday-evening-oct-82.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday evening (Oct. 8), should local weather conditions permit, you\u2019ll be able to enjoy a view of a waxing gibbous moon hovering near to the \u201cking of the planets,\u201d Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p>Both will be posed about one-quarter up in the east-southeast part of the sky as darkness begins to fall. The moon, which will be less than 24 hours from full phase \u2014 99-percent illuminated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/58-the-sun-formation-facts-and-characteristics.html\">the sun<\/a> \u2014 will be situated just below and to the left of Jupiter, a distance measuring roughly 4 degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday evening (Oct. 8), should local weather conditions permit, you\u2019ll be able to enjoy a view of a waxing gibbous moon hovering near to the \u201cking of the planets,\u201d Jupiter. Both will be posed about one-quarter up in the east-southeast part of the sky as darkness begins to fall. The moon, which will be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}