{"id":306,"date":"2010-03-17T21:41:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T20:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=306"},"modified":"2010-03-17T21:41:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T20:41:14","slug":"my-first-minor-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Vesta: My first minor planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I observed my first minor planet ever this evening: 4 Vesta is currently situated right under the &#8220;Lions Head&#8221; in Leo, and at mag 6m.55, it&#8217;s easy prey for both binoculars and backyard telescopes.<\/p>\n<p>I found that limiting magnitude tonight is around 3m.5, so the situation wasn&#8217;t ideal, still it was fun thinking that this is a cold rock hurtling around the sun between Mars (shining nearby, a little west in the constellation cancer) and Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Vesta in XEphem on Mar 17th, 2010\" src=\"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/1983539\/images\/vesta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I observed my first minor planet ever this evening: 4 Vesta is currently situated right under the &#8220;Lions Head&#8221; in Leo, and at mag 6m.55, it&#8217;s easy prey for both binoculars and backyard telescopes. I found that limiting magnitude tonight is around 3m.5, so the situation wasn&#8217;t ideal, still it was fun thinking that this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}