{"id":539,"date":"2013-01-15T13:44:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T03:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/539-day-381-the-setting-waxing-crescent-moon.html"},"modified":"2013-01-15T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T04:12:11","slug":"day-381-the-setting-waxing-crescent-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/539-day-381-the-setting-waxing-crescent-moon.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 381, The Setting Waxing Crescent Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:884 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/381-_MG_9428.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nLast night I watched one of the most beautiful crescent Moonsets I have ever seen.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI&#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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFrom 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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI became acutely aware as its luminosity dropped and dropped and dropped at least 4 stops over its final descent.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI 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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n <br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Day 381, The Setting Waxing Crescent Moon&#8217; 1s f\/16 ISO800 1000mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; 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 &#8230; <a title=\"Day 381, The Setting Waxing Crescent Moon\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/539-day-381-the-setting-waxing-crescent-moon.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 381, The Setting Waxing Crescent Moon\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}