{"id":3323,"date":"2012-08-12T08:19:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T12:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2012-08-14T10:21:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T14:21:17","slug":"perseid-meteor-shower-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/perseid-meteor-shower-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseid meteor shower peak"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were out in the evening of Saturday August 11th, 2012 but only got in about 90 minutes of viewing from 21:30 to 23:00 before the clouds rolled in. Kim picked up quite a few observations.<\/p>\n

“In an hour we were averaging around 20 Perseids. Many were fast, but quite a few were med slow, bright, with 25 degree trains.
\nOne in particular was a -5 white-yellow, and a 30 degree tail.<\/p>\n

Many satellites were seen, some iridiums, some flashers and the ISS was passing over around 10:21 pm for a very long pass. -1-1 started at 22:19 and lasted until 22:25 pm”.<\/p>\n

We packed it in and left the rest of the night to the allsky cameras. At 02:00 local both cameras picked up the most spectacular meteor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Allsk1 camera, 90 second exposure ending 02:02:10 EDT<\/p>\nAllsky2 camera combined exposures ending at 06:00:42UT = 02:00:42 EDT.
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To Top it off is the spectacular part… the video:
\nev_20120812_060042A_10A<\/a> (2mb .AVI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were out in the evening of Saturday August 11th, 2012 but only got in about 90 minutes of viewing from 21:30 to 23:00 before the clouds rolled in. Kim picked up quite a few observations. “In an hour we were averaging around 20 Perseids. Many were fast, but quite a few were med slow, […]<\/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-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323","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=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}