{"id":4895,"date":"2013-08-09T07:57:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T11:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=4895"},"modified":"2013-08-09T12:38:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T16:38:55","slug":"good-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/good-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really!  It is a good friday!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/gainer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/gainer-150x76.jpg\" alt=\"gainer\" width=\"150\" height=\"76\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/gainer-150x76.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/gainer-299x151.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/gainer.jpg 481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTonight at 21:00 Eastern is the first CFL football game in two weeks for the Saskatchewan Roughriders at Calgary.  After Saskatchewan tromps on Calgary (#2 team in the league), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/standings\/2013\/reg\" target=\"_blank\">maintaining its #1 spot in the league,<\/a> the game will be over sometime around midnight local time and then we can head outdoors to view some of the early Perseid meteors.<\/p>\n<p>Meteors showers are generally always better after midnight, as the observer on the earth has turned into traffic as it were, facing the oncoming rocks rather than being &#8220;behind&#8221; the planet, in the lee of the shower.<\/p>\n<p>This image below is a compilation of the 2012 Perseid meteor shower as seen during the peak of August 11\/12, as seen from the <a href=\"\/allsky2\/\">Allsky2 Camera system<\/a>, aka the UWO#10 camera.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_20120812-perseids.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_20120812-perseids-150x112.png\" alt=\"ev_20120812-perseids\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_20120812-perseids-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_20120812-perseids-299x224.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_20120812-perseids.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping 2013 will be as active!<\/p>\n<p>And we note that the<a href=\"http:\/\/gigantid.physics.uwo.ca\/~asgard\/11.html\" target=\"_blank\"> University of Western Ontario Allsky camera network has expanded to 11 cameras<\/a>, located at ES FOX.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluewaterastronomy.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">ES Fox Observatory<\/a> is in the far northwest of the operational area, out on the Bruce Peninsula in Southern Ontario, near Wiarton, Ontario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really! It is a good friday! Tonight at 21:00 Eastern is the first CFL football game in two weeks for the Saskatchewan Roughriders at Calgary. After Saskatchewan tromps on Calgary (#2 team in the league), maintaining its #1 spot in the league, the game will be over sometime around midnight local time and then we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895","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=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}