{"id":208,"date":"2016-05-17T19:37:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T19:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/?p=208"},"modified":"2016-05-17T19:46:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T19:46:46","slug":"transit-of-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/2016\/05\/17\/transit-of-mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit of Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 9th, Mercury transited the Sun and the crack physics solar telescope team (Randy Milstein and Jim Ketter) took a chance on a break in the clouds and set up 3 telescopes in the quad.\u00a0 The sky cleared and over 40 people stopped by to see the transit before it ended right before lunch.\u00a0 If anyone has a photo taken at this event, send it along and we will post it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_209\" class=\"wp-caption thumbnail alignnone\" style=\"width: 225px;\">\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_3119.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-209\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_3119-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Randy Milstein helps visitors see Mercury transit the sun.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_3119-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_3119-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n    <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randy Milstein helps visitors see Mercury transit the sun.<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 9th, Mercury transited the Sun and the crack physics solar telescope team (Randy Milstein and Jim Ketter) took a chance on a break in the clouds and set up 3 telescopes in the quad.\u00a0 The sky cleared and over 40 people stopped by to see the transit before it ended right before lunch.\u00a0&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/2016\/05\/17\/transit-of-mercury\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6866,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}