{"id":695,"date":"2016-05-13T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=695"},"modified":"2016-05-13T11:02:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T10:02:34","slug":"mercury-transit-not-much-to-see-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Transit (not much to see here ;-))"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/sonne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-696\" src=\"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/sonne.jpg\" alt=\"sonne\" width=\"575\" height=\"561\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not much to see here I&#8217;m afraid, more or less this post is a reminder to myself that I observed the Mercury Transit using my 100mm spotting scope and a custom built mylar foil filter (basically just a bit of cardboard wrapped abound the tube with some mylar strapped on the business end).<\/p>\n<p>While the view wasn&#8217;t very spectacular it boggles the mind to think about what&#8217;s actually happening out there: A little planet forever caught up in the Sun&#8217;s gravitational well, its hemispheres being alternately boiled by our central star or deep-frozen by exposure to empty space when in the shadow, racing across the Sun&#8217;s face in a mere couple of hours&#8230; wow, it really boggles the mind, not least of all our ability to predict such events with fantastic precision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Not much to see here I&#8217;m afraid, more or less this post is a reminder to myself that I observed the Mercury Transit using my 100mm spotting scope and a custom built mylar foil filter (basically just a bit of cardboard wrapped abound the tube with some mylar strapped on the business end). While [&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-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","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=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}