{"id":7137,"date":"2016-08-09T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T13:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=7137"},"modified":"2016-08-09T13:02:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T17:02:06","slug":"perseid-runup-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2016\/08\/perseid-runup-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseid runup 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been surprisingly clear in the runup to the 2016 Perseid meteor shower.<br \/>\nOver the last few days we have had captured on our allsky2 system:<\/p>\n<p>Tue 20160802: 14<br \/>\nWed 20160803: 7<br \/>\nThu 20160804: 17<br \/>\nFri 20160805: 15<br \/>\nSat 20160806: 23<br \/>\nSun 20160807: 15<br \/>\nMon 20160808: 32<br \/>\nTue 20160809: 26<\/p>\n<p>The peak is expected to be a bonus this year, with a higher density than normal.  The peak occurs over Thursday night\/Friday morning August 11\/12 2016.<br \/>\nBest after midnight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160802.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160802-299x224.png\" alt=\"allsky2-20160802\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160802-299x224.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160802-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160802.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160803.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160803-299x224.png\" alt=\"allsky2-20160803\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160803-299x224.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160803-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160803.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160804.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160804-299x224.png\" alt=\"allsky2-20160804\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160804-299x224.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160804-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160804.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160805.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160805-299x224.png\" alt=\"allsky2-20160805\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160805-299x224.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160805-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160805.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160806.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160806-299x224.png\" alt=\"allsky2-20160806\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160806-299x224.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160806-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160806.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160807.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160807-299x224.png\" alt=\"allsky2-20160807\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160807-299x224.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160807-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160807.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160808.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160808-299x224.png\" alt=\"allsky2-20160808\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160808-299x224.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160808-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160808.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160809.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160809-299x224.png\" alt=\"allsky2-20160809\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160809-299x224.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160809-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/allsky2-20160809.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been surprisingly clear in the runup to the 2016 Perseid meteor shower. Over the last few days we have had captured on our allsky2 system: Tue 20160802: 14 Wed 20160803: 7 Thu 20160804: 17 Fri 20160805: 15 Sat 20160806: 23 Sun 20160807: 15 Mon 20160808: 32 Tue 20160809: 26 The peak is expected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7149,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions\/7149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}