{"id":7413,"date":"2005-06-22T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/22\/alignment-of-saturn-mercury-and-venus\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:15","slug":"alignment-of-saturn-mercury-and-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/22\/alignment-of-saturn-mercury-and-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Alignment of Saturn, Mercury, and Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it seems that as seen <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2005\/22jun_spectacular.htm\">here<\/a> Saturn, Venus, and Mercury are aligned tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Well, on the way home from my parents house tonight I grabbed a shot of this alignment. The shot is just a quick RAW snapshot that I quickly converted with dcraw, dumped into photoshop, tweaked the color, the exported to a JPEG.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to see this image, take a quick look here: http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/images\/saturn-venus-mercury_alignment_test.jpg<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably get a better one uploaded later, but you can clearly see the alignment in this shot.<\/p>\n<p>I would have just posted the image itself, but it doesn&#8217;t look good too small, and I want to go watch some Frontline right now, not mess with the image. So, just click the link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Better version behind the cut, or at this link: http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/images\/saturn-venus-mercury_conjunction_wide.jpg<\/p>\n<p><!--more Click for a nice version of the aforementioned photo... It's not huge, but I don't want to post a 1024px wide image to people's friends pages.--><br \/>\n&#8212; CUT &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/images\/saturn-venus-mercury_conjunction_wide.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; END CUT &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it seems that as seen here Saturn, Venus, and Mercury are aligned tonight. Well, on the way home from my parents house tonight I grabbed a shot of this alignment. The shot is just a quick RAW snapshot that I quickly converted with dcraw, dumped into photoshop, tweaked the color, the exported to a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,34,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-things","category-moved-from-livejournal","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14216,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions\/14216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}