{"id":366,"date":"2016-09-27T21:26:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T20:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2019-06-03T22:50:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T22:50:49","slug":"sky-guide-october-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/27\/sky-guide-october-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Guide October 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe style=\"display:block;\"  src=\"https:\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4700123\/height\/360\/theme\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"100%\" placement=\"top\" theme=\"standard\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"podcast-class\" frameborder=\"0\" custom_color=\"75942D\"><\/iframe><br \/><br \/><br \/><a class=\"libsyn-download-link\" href =\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/awesomeastronomy\/20161003--Awesome-Astronomys-October-Sky-Guide.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download Episode!<\/a><br \/>\n<p>What to look out, and up, for in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our highlights of this month\u2019s skies with the planet on offer to observers and imagers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li> Venus &amp; Saturn in the late evening with a nice conjunction of the pair. <\/li><li> Uranus as it reaches opposition on the 16th.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Next up is the meteor showers and October brings us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li> The Draconids peaking on 7th October <\/li><li> The Orionids peaking on 20th\/21st October <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Then we each take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li> Ralph \u2013 Algol, the Demon Star &amp; The Double Cluster in Perseus <\/li><li> Paul \u2013 The Auriga open clusters: M36, M37 &amp; M38 <\/li><li> Jeni \u2013 and the Owl Cluster in Cassiopeia <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And we finish this sky guide with October\u2019s moon phases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download Episode! What to look out, and up, for in October. Our highlights of this month\u2019s skies with the planet on offer to observers and imagers: Venus &amp; Saturn in the late evening with a nice conjunction of the pair. Uranus as it reaches opposition on the 16th. Next up is the meteor showers and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/27\/sky-guide-october-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sky Guide October 2016&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":4700123,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"general","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"use_thumbnail","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"standard","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"360","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"450","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"top","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"use_download_link","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"Download Episode!","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"no","libsyn-post-episode":"isLibsynPost","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"available","libsyn-release-date":"2016-09-27 20:26:20","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"false","libsyn-new-media-media":"http:\/\/libsyn-upload-12873457","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/show\/36540\/Sky_GuideOct.jpg","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":null,"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"{\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-95123-release-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-95123-expiration-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-advanced-destination-checkbox-95123\":\"checked\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-95124-release-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-95124-expiration-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-advanced-destination-checkbox-95124\":\"checked\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-95125-release-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-95125-expiration-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-advanced-destination-checkbox-95125\":\"checked\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-148246-release-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-148246-expiration-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-advanced-destination-checkbox-148246\":\"checked\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-174537-release-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-174537-expiration-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-advanced-destination-checkbox-174537\":\"checked\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-174538-release-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-174538-expiration-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-advanced-destination-checkbox-174538\":\"checked\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-290131-release-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-290131-expiration-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-advanced-destination-checkbox-290131\":\"checked\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-579441-release-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-579441-expiration-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-advanced-destination-checkbox-579441\":\"checked\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-579448-release-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-579448-expiration-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-advanced-destination-checkbox-579448\":\"checked\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-622018-release-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-622018-expiration-time\":\"\",\"libsyn-advanced-destination-checkbox-622018\":\"checked\"}","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}