{"id":198261,"date":"2024-10-25T10:24:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T15:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/halloween-comet-tonight-how-to-find-it-on-friday-while-you-still-can"},"modified":"2024-10-25T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T15:24:51","slug":"halloween-comet-tonight-how-to-find-it-on-friday-while-you-still-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/halloween-comet-tonight-how-to-find-it-on-friday-while-you-still-can","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Halloween Comet\u2019 Tonight: How To Find It On Friday While You Still Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/halloween-comet-tonight-how-to-find-it-on-friday-while-you-still-can3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Comet\u2019s distance from the sun: 75 million miles (121 million kilometers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Comet\u2019s distance from Earth: 71 million miles (115 million kilometers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So far, the guiding lights to find the comet have been the bright planet Venus and the bright red star Arcturus. However, as October draws to a close, both are so close to the horizon an hour after sunset that they\u2019re unlikely to be visible. So, instead, use the stars of the Summer Triangle to find the comet. Vega in the constellation Lyra should be easy enough to find above due west and, above it, Deneb in Cygnus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comet\u2019s distance from the sun: 75 million miles (121 million kilometers) Comet\u2019s distance from Earth: 71 million miles (115 million kilometers) So far, the guiding lights to find the comet have been the bright planet Venus and the bright red star Arcturus. However, as October draws to a close, both are so close to the [\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-198261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198261","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=198261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}