{"id":1623,"date":"2012-08-02T15:55:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T19:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2012-08-02T08:38:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T12:38:46","slug":"enchanting-crescent-moon-photo-with-jupiter-system-conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2012\/08\/enchanting-crescent-moon-photo-with-jupiter-system-conjunction.html","title":{"rendered":"Enchanting crescent moon photo with Jupiter system conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap120720.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/75\/2012\/07\/MJ_Fattinnanzi2048-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"MJ_Fattinnanzi2048\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1655\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a gorgeous photo of a conjunction of the crescent moon with the Jovian system. It&#8217;s from <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap120720.html\">NASA&#8217;s Astronomy Photo of the Day<\/a> (APOD). Everything in this photo, including the clouds, is brilliant solely due to reflected light from the Sun. <\/p>\n<p>Astronomy always leaves me breathless, but I am especially attuned to it during Ramadan. We are simple beings, striving to get closer to our Creator, and there above us in plain view is the majesty of his Creation. It is humbling and also ennobling at the same time. <\/p>\n<p>Note, this photo is from a few weeks ago. Last night was the midpoint of Ramadan (according to the Fatimid calendar), so the moon is full, and is a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2009\/08\/the-last-sturgeon-moon-before.html\/\">sturgeon moon<\/a>&#8220;. Here is a photo of the moon taken last night:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fujoshi\/7695263170\/\" title=\"Full Sturgeon Moon - August 2012 by Fujoshi, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8146\/7695263170_525f1f7306.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Full Sturgeon Moon - August 2012\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next full moon will occur on August 30th, and thus will be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/capital-weather-gang\/post\/blue-moon-and-sturgeon-moon-in-august-2012\/2012\/08\/01\/gJQAzqZSPX_blog.html\">Blue Moon<\/a>. I explain why I seem so obsessed over the phases of the moon, especially during Ramadan, in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2009\/08\/the-last-sturgeon-moon-before.html\/\">this older post<\/a> a few years ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a gorgeous photo of a conjunction of the crescent moon with the Jovian system. It&#8217;s from NASA&#8217;s Astronomy Photo of the Day (APOD). Everything in this photo, including the clouds, is brilliant solely due to reflected light from the Sun. 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The name City of Brass refers to the Story of the City of Brass in the Thousand and One Nights, and the poem by Rudyard Kipling of the same name: Here was a people whom, after their works, thou shalt see wept over for their lost dominion; And in this palace is the last information respecting lords collected in the dust. -- Thousand and One Nights, Story of the City of Brass IN A land that the sand overlays, the ways to her gates are untrod, A multitude ended their days whose fates were made splendid by God, Till they grew drunk and were smitten with madness and went to their fall, And of these is a story written: but Allah Alone knoweth all! -- Rudyard Kipling, The City of Brass (1909)"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}