{"id":3085,"date":"2012-06-26T14:40:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T18:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2012-06-26T14:41:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T18:41:37","slug":"8-magnitude-iridium-flare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/8-magnitude-iridium-flare\/","title":{"rendered":"-8 magnitude Iridium flare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_3086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3086\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sco-20120626_0227_02.fit_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sco-20120626_0227_02.fit_-299x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sco-20120626_0227_02.fit\" width=\"299\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sco-20120626_0227_02.fit_-299x225.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sco-20120626_0227_02.fit_-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sco-20120626_0227_02.fit_.jpg 657w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">-8 magnitude Iridium satellite flare<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThis is what a -8 magnitude Iridium flare looks like (brightest point in the south south east sky).<br \/>\nPretty neat and pretty bright.  The brighter they are the shorter duration they are.  This should have been less than 1 or 2 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what a -8 magnitude Iridium flare looks like (brightest point in the south south east sky). Pretty neat and pretty bright. The brighter they are the shorter duration they are. This should have been less than 1 or 2 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","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=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}