{"id":127,"date":"2014-02-06T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=127"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:38:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:38:36","slug":"skywatch-friday-waning-crescent-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday &#8211; Waning Crescent Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/12281304286\/\" title=\"IMG_7685 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_7685\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12281304286_e723455b54_z-300x168.jpg\" height=\"359\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Last week I noticed one evening that the moon was setting down our street so I went and grabbed the &#8220;good&#8221; camera and a tripod and set it up for some delayed shutter action and took some shots. I think they are okay for what they are given the world&#8217;s brightest street light was lined up with the moon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/12281186054\/\" title=\"IMG_7684 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_7684\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12281186054_25df3e3b42_z-300x168.jpg\" height=\"359\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">When I zoomed in my superzoom things got a little better but still kind of grainy. I think you call this a waning crescent moon because at the time the crescent was getting smaller every night. Then of course we get the new moon and then the crescent starts growing until we get a half moon and then when over half the moon is illuminated it is the gibbous moon. I have gone my whole life and not noticed the word &#8220;gibbous&#8221; until recently and now I see it everywhere. &nbsp;Stuff like that happens all the time to me. I see a word that I swear I have never seen before and after I look it up I see it everywhere. I guess it means that I&#8217;m either really slow or I&#8217;m still learning, or maybe both.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moonconnection.com\/\">MoonConnection.com<\/a> has some excellent material on the moon and moon phases. Check them out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Skywatch Friday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I noticed one evening that the moon was setting down our street so I went and grabbed the &#8220;good&#8221; camera and a tripod and set it up for some delayed shutter action and took some shots. I think they are okay for what they are given the world&#8217;s brightest street light was lined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,104,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moon","category-photography","category-skywatch-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}