{"id":2064,"date":"2012-03-07T22:32:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T21:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2012-03-07T22:32:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T21:32:55","slug":"planetary-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/planetary-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Planetary Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening we had a quick run out to Long Meg stone circle, yes, we were just there the other day but Venus &amp; Jupiter were looking good and the Moon was breaking through the cloud. So thick jacket on, we parked up and I wandered about the stones. It&#8217;s hard to relate the sense of magic and wonder you feel wandering around a moonlit stone circle with the stars and planets above. To add to the effect the owls started to twit and twoo in the nearby wood \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So, I managed a few photographs &#8211; mainly of Venus &amp; Jupiter above the stones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_01_700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2063\" title=\"Long Meg, her Daughters, and some planets\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_01_700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_01_700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_01_700-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_02_700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2062\" title=\"Long Meg, her Daughters, and some planets\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_02_700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_02_700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_02_700-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_03_700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2061\" title=\"Long Meg, her Daughters, and some planets\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_03_700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_03_700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_03_700-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_03_700-672x1024.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_04_700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2060\" title=\"Long Meg, her Daughters, and some planets\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_04_700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"1057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_04_700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_04_700-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_04_700-678x1024.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_05_700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2059\" title=\"Long Meg, her Daughters, and some planets\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_05_700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_05_700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/7_3_12_longmeg_stars_05_700-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening we had a quick run out to Long Meg stone circle, yes, we were just there the other day but Venus &amp; Jupiter were looking good and the Moon was breaking through the cloud. So thick jacket on, we parked up and I wandered about the stones. It&#8217;s hard to relate the sense of magic and wonder you feel wandering around a moonlit stone circle with the stars and planets above. To add to the effect the owls started to twit and twoo in the nearby wood \ud83d\ude42&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[125,190,139,233],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-photography","tag-cumbria","tag-jupiter","tag-long-meg","tag-venus"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}