{"id":4447,"date":"2013-01-15T01:29:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T14:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2015-01-20T01:29:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T14:59:51","slug":"day-381-the-setting-waxing-crescent-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=4447","title":{"rendered":"Day 381, The Setting Waxing Crescent Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I watched one of the most beautiful crescent Moonsets I have ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it was no different from the one a month before and a month before that. The difference this time was that I paid attention.<\/p>\n<p>From an hour after sunset I followed the descending crescent into the fading purples of the end of twilight. I watched as the Moon&#8217;s colour transitioned from white to yellow then orange and finally red as it dipped below the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>I became acutely aware as its luminosity dropped and dropped and dropped at least 4 stops over its final descent.<\/p>\n<p>I make no apologies for the quality of this image. I don&#8217;t have the gear for this kind of photography but using a secondhand 500mm f8.0 mirror lens and a 2xconverter I believe I have faithfully captured the feeling.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Day 381, The Setting Waxing Crescent Moon&#8217; 1s f\/16 ISO800 1000mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I watched one of the most beautiful crescent Moonsets I have ever seen. I&#8217;m sure it was no different from the one a month before and a month before that. The difference this time was that I paid attention. From an hour after sunset I followed the descending crescent into the fading purples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4448,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/4448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}