{"id":417,"date":"2015-03-13T11:48:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T14:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/?p=417"},"modified":"2015-03-13T16:28:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T19:28:16","slug":"march-skies-2015-pei-missing-out-on-eclipse-mar-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/2015\/03\/13\/march-skies-2015-pei-missing-out-on-eclipse-mar-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"March skies 2015 — PEI Missing out on eclipse Mar 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jupiter and Venus continue to be great solar objects to check out for March. \u00a0The Harvard-Smithsonian has a nice little synopsis of the night skies here<\/a>. \u00a0 If you want more detailed information, there’s a lot of other sites out there. \u00a0The site freestarcharts.com has a lot of information and a PDF chart for how to find Jupiter in the sky<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Harvard-Smithsonian also has some nice graphics to let you know why you HAVEN’T been hearing about a lunar eclipse (where the moon blocks out the sun during the day) on March 20th — that’s because we won’t see it in most of Canada<\/a>. \u00a0Newfoundland and other areas on the most eastern edges will see a bit of coverage.<\/p>\n

A storm is set to arrive in PEI on Sunday March 15th and the clouds are not looking good for a viewing this Saturday evening so we won’t be having a viewing on Saturday Mar 14th.\u00a0 Next possible viewing scheduled for Saturday Mar 21st, 8-10pm.<\/p>\n

Picture below taken from the Clear Sky Clock Charlottetown site <\/a>with details showing for 8pm (clouds moving in).\u00a0 When checked after 4pm on Friday, situation has worsened.<\/p>\n

\"14Mar2015_8pm\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jupiter and Venus continue to be great solar objects to check out for March. \u00a0The Harvard-Smithsonian has a nice little synopsis of the night skies here. \u00a0 If you want more detailed information, there’s a lot of other sites out … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}