{"id":40154,"date":"2020-09-18T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=40154"},"modified":"2020-09-18T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T16:00:10","slug":"astronomy-southern-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/astronomy-southern-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy: Southern Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about astronomy: the tutor brings up the famous Southern Cross.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve been hearing about the Southern Cross for decades. I decided to look it up.<\/p>\n<p>Important with the Southern Cross are two other stars, the Pointers, which are brighter than those of the Southern Cross.<\/p>\n<p>\nDue south, from my reading, is best approximated by the nearest of the Southern Cross stars to the Pointers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be following up.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kRlCbrl9dgw\">Lotsafreshair (YouTube)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teara.govt.nz\/en\/photograph\/7905\/the-southern-cross-and-pointers?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=50bd0ad7f97500dd2daed988ccc61772ea5ef395-1600442827-0-AeQ6vJt8lKVir8TjuXoHHDW7hTQ8i5U8zuqyhESFXWJr-61Ckn76tfIZnr3Gnj8InJW6oHrrgIRJt5ekWxmj8x8Nkz9whqNdD4JyeqR3MDThpTi1cbyUXjy4yRaGaXlXMPJf2Ts7VLOoR4kms7yqYKcbuuANBd4gxaWjydPokMY7X4f-3mq005PElthETP99bOo__zWXXaig21x4pWC2rEQNdNbf_Kar1T6SbNTWjGdpazMc8kXYNwJspEQHP59RnKik4ltxrR9IjG2yIld2g_905yKBwwpGvRzmpqCDFBLrHev7A8G7G2L6RRQeVNklcBt2n9NxURxsclpFC9S3qP4\">teara.govt.nz<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about astronomy: the tutor brings up the famous Southern Cross. I&#8217;ve been hearing about the Southern Cross for decades. I decided to look it up. Important with the Southern Cross are two other stars, the Pointers, which are brighter &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/astronomy-southern-cross\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Astronomy: Southern Cross<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40156,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40154\/revisions\/40156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}