{"id":11249,"date":"2026-08-20T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=11249"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:46:41","slug":"perseids-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2026\/08\/perseids-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseids 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 Perseid Meteor shower was pretty typical. Nothing too spectacular and only 1 or 2 nights of relatively good rates.<\/p>\n

Each image filename contains the date and the number of meteors in the image.
\nThese images come from the SCGO Allsky2 Fireball camera<\/a>, hosted here for the Western Univeristy Meteor Group<\/p>\n

\"20260809-allsky2-perseids-11.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"20260811-allsky2-perseids-32.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"20260812-allsky2-perseids-25.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"20260813-allsky2-perseids-64.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"20260814-allsky2-perseids-30.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"20260815-allsky2-perseids-20.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"20260816-allsky2-perseids-15.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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The 2026 Perseid Meteor shower was pretty typical. Nothing too spectacular and only 1 or 2 nights of relatively good rates. Each image filename contains the date and the number of meteors in the image. These images come from the SCGO Allsky2 Fireball camera, hosted here for the Western Univeristy Meteor Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11249"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11260,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions\/11260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}