{"id":3923,"date":"2012-12-14T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2012-12-14T16:46:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:46:53","slug":"geminid-meteor-shower-2012-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/geminid-meteor-shower-2012-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Geminid Meteor Shower 2012 Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SCO Allsky2 camera\/UWO camera10 captured 113 events last night (Dec 13\/14, 2012)<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3924\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ev_20121214_073927A_10A.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ev_20121214_073927A_10A-299x224.png\" alt=\"ev_20121214_073927A_10A.png\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ev_20121214_073927A_10A-299x224.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ev_20121214_073927A_10A-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ev_20121214_073927A_10A.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ev_20121214_073927A_10A.png<\/figcaption><\/figure>Of those 9 were false positives (a bit of condensation inside the dome and passing car headlights)\u2026 so 113-9=104 meteors, most of which are geminids (by tracing back the path to the geminid radiant). <\/p>\n<p>These two images are among the brightest meteors of the night.<\/p>\n<p>There were at least two instances of  two meteors in the same frame and many more brighter<br \/>\nmeteors last night but the dimmer of the two is a little hard to make out.  Maybe we will enhance them and post them later.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3925\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ev_20121214_104257A_10A.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ev_20121214_104257A_10A-299x224.png\" alt=\"ev_20121214_104257A_10A.png\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ev_20121214_104257A_10A-299x224.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ev_20121214_104257A_10A-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ev_20121214_104257A_10A.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ev_20121214_104257A_10A.png<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"\/allsky1\/\">Allsky1<\/a> takes 90 second images and as such is much more prone to cloud effects.  In fact we did not get any clear sky images fro mallsky1 until well after midnight. This is one of the best allsky1 images of the night at 03:38 EST<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sco-20121214_0338_16.fit_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sco-20121214_0338_16.fit_-299x225.png\" alt=\"sco-20121214_0338_16.fit\" width=\"299\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sco-20121214_0338_16.fit_-299x225.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sco-20121214_0338_16.fit_-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sco-20121214_0338_16.fit_.png 657w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SCO Allsky2 camera\/UWO camera10 captured 113 events last night (Dec 13\/14, 2012) Of those 9 were false positives (a bit of condensation inside the dome and passing car headlights)\u2026 so 113-9=104 meteors, most of which are geminids (by tracing back the path to the geminid radiant). These two images are among the brightest meteors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","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=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}