{"id":1143,"date":"2012-05-16T11:40:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T18:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skypatterns.com\/wp\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2015-05-13T13:51:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T20:51:58","slug":"solar-eclipse-sunday-may-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skypatterns.com\/wp\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"Solar Eclipse Sunday May 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/skypatterns.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/north-america-partial-eclipse-may-20th-2012-lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"north-america-partial-eclipse-may-20th-2012-lg\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1142\" \/>Sunday, May 20th there will be a visible solar eclipse for us all to enjoy. In L.A., it happens at 4:47 PM, New York at 7:47 PM, London at 12:47 AM, Delhi at 5:47 AM, and Sidney at 9:47 AM. <\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ve seen these before, but now that we are all more conscious of the cosmic events and how they effect us all, this one is very special. <\/p>\n<p>If you are watching from the land running from Northern California to Texas, you&#8217;ll be seeing an annular eclipse, in which the rim of the Sun becomes a brilliant ring completely encircling the black silhouette of the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun will move down the afternoon sky when a dark indent begins on one edge. The indent will deepen, eventually turning the Sun into a fat crescent &#8211; or, for the western half of the continent, a thin crescent. This is the silhouette of the new Moon traveling along its monthly orbit around the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Watch as the eclipse deepens for the sky to turn a darker shade of blue, and for Venus to appear east of the Sun. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, May 20th there will be a visible solar eclipse for us all to enjoy. In L.A., it happens at 4:47 PM, New York at 7:47 PM, London at 12:47 AM, Delhi at 5:47 AM, and Sidney at 9:47 AM. So we&#8217;ve seen these before, but now that we are all more conscious of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skypatterns.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skypatterns.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skypatterns.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skypatterns.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skypatterns.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/skypatterns.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82732,"href":"https:\/\/skypatterns.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/82732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skypatterns.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skypatterns.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skypatterns.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}