{"id":7150,"date":"2016-08-12T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=7150"},"modified":"2016-08-12T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:48:09","slug":"perseid-2016-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2016\/08\/perseid-2016-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseid 2016 peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7151\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160812-ev_summary.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160812-ev_summary-299x224.png\" alt=\"Perseid Peak 2016 Aug 11\/12\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160812-ev_summary-299x224.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160812-ev_summary-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160812-ev_summary.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perseid Peak 2016 Aug 11\/12<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The total count for the night was 58, of which one of them looks suspiciously like an alien spacecraft veering off course in just over 6 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The first recorded meteor of the evening was at 02:56UT (22:56 EDT) with heavy cloud.<\/p>\n<p>The last recorded meteor was at 09:09 UT (05:09 EDT) with heavy cloud.<\/p>\n<p>After being outside doing visual from 01:45-02:15 EDT I can positively say that my eyes saw more than the camera did, although it is designed for fireballs and not dim meteors.<\/p>\n<p>The allsky1 system did not pick up any meteors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total count for the night was 58, of which one of them looks suspiciously like an alien spacecraft veering off course in just over 6 hours. The first recorded meteor of the evening was at 02:56UT (22:56 EDT) with heavy cloud. The last recorded meteor was at 09:09 UT (05:09 EDT) with heavy cloud. [&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-7150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150","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=7150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7152,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions\/7152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}