{"id":167362,"date":"2022-09-27T18:18:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T23:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=167362"},"modified":"2022-09-28T09:37:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:37:10","slug":"rising-in-the-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/rising-in-the-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising in the east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-September-Jupiter-Square-Circlet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-September-Jupiter-Square-Circlet-640x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-167363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-September-Jupiter-Square-Circlet-640x640.jpg 640w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-September-Jupiter-Square-Circlet-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-September-Jupiter-Square-Circlet-768x767.jpg 768w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-September-Jupiter-Square-Circlet.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have clear skies this week, you might want to take a look at Jupiter. It&#8217;s in opposition to the sun as viewed from the earth, and it is also <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/jupiter-at-opposition-closest-brightest-best\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the closest it&#8217;s been to the earth in 70 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Update: I put my longest telephoto lens on my camera last night to see if I could get a picture of the planet. It worked, but not very well; I need a much longer lens for astrophotography or, preferably, a telescope with a camera adapter. I was able to resolve the planet and three of the moons, but the image was too small to see any detail beyond that.<\/p>\n<p>I was in a bit of a silly mood after that, so I took an excerpt from Host&#8217;s &#8220;Jupiter&#8221; and ran it through a few instances of a pair of software emulations of the <a href=\"https:\/\/greatsynthesizers.com\/en\/review\/roland-jupiter-8-the-great-master-of-synth-pop\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Jupiter 8<\/a> synthesizer. (I used this <a href=\"https:\/\/musescore.com\/user\/31686141\/scores\/6468828\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two-cello arrangement<\/a> as the basis for the piece.)<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-167362-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Jupiter.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Jupiter.mp3\">http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Jupiter.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>If it&#8217;s not your speed, there&#8217;s plenty of other &#8220;Jupiter&#8221; music out there, from Mozart to Joe Satriani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have clear skies this week, you might want to take a look at Jupiter. It&#8217;s in opposition to the sun as viewed from the earth, and it is also the closest it&#8217;s been to the earth in 70 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Hxo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167381,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167362\/revisions\/167381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}