{"id":4916,"date":"2013-08-12T07:37:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T11:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2013-08-14T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T14:36:06","slug":"perseids-2013-a-good-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/perseids-2013-a-good-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseids 2013 a good year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had three cloud free moon free nights of Perseid meteor shower observing this year, the best ever!<br \/>\nBetter yet, the allsky cameras caught a lot of them as well.<br \/>\nHere are summary images from the three nights:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_summary20130810.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_summary20130810-299x224.png\" alt=\"ev_summary20130810\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_summary20130810-299x224.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_summary20130810-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_summary20130810.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>2013 August 09\/10 (Fri\/Sat)<\/a><\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_summary20130811.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_summary20130811-299x224.png\" alt=\"ev_summary20130811\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_summary20130811-299x224.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_summary20130811-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_summary20130811.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>2013 August 10\/11 (Sat\/Sun)<\/a><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_summary20130812.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_summary20130812-299x224.png\" alt=\"ev_summary20130812\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_summary20130812-299x224.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_summary20130812-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ev_summary20130812.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>2013 August 11\/12 (Sun\/Mon)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/table>\n<p>The first two nights (Sat morn, Sun morn) we stay up late and started observing at midnight for 1 to 2 hours.<br \/>\nIt was tough because we had things to do and places to go in the morning and could not sleep in.<br \/>\nThis morning (Monday) we changed strategies and went to sleep early and got up at 03:00 to observer for 2 hours.  It worked!  The evening and overnight clouds  had cleared away and we were treated to a *LOT* of meteors.<br \/>\nMon\/Tue was clouded out. Tue\/Wed was clouded out with rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had three cloud free moon free nights of Perseid meteor shower observing this year, the best ever! Better yet, the allsky cameras caught a lot of them as well. Here are summary images from the three nights: 2013 August 09\/10 (Fri\/Sat) 2013 August 10\/11 (Sat\/Sun) 2013 August 11\/12 (Sun\/Mon) The first two nights (Sat [&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-4916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916","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=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}