{"id":24255,"date":"2019-08-10T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=24255"},"modified":"2019-08-08T03:09:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T07:09:46","slug":"stormy-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2019\/08\/stormy-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormy season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note, but there&#8217;s another meteor shower peaking soon, this time the Perseids, supposed to reach maximum on the nights of the 12th and 13th. I tell you this mostly to point out that, yet again, the moon is going to be too bright to make much of them, being damn near full those nights. I&#8217;m going to have to sit down and calculate how often either a) the moon has been too bright, or b) the skies have been far from clear &#8211; it certainly seems to me that it&#8217;s a lot more often than not.<\/p>\n<p>And no, I did not get out and do anything with the <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2019\/07\/oh-give-it-a-shot\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">last storms<\/a>, when the conditions were pretty close to optimal, so maybe I&#8217;m the one to blame here. As I&#8217;m putting these on the calendar for next year, I&#8217;ll certainly aim for better moon nights, at least.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of my shortcomings, this storm is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/2019\/8\/6\/20755074\/perseids-2019-peak-time-how-to-watch\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reputed to be one of the better ones<\/a>, so it may still be worth the effort. You won&#8217;t see <em>anything<\/em> if you don&#8217;t try, so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note, but there&#8217;s another meteor shower peaking soon, this time the Perseids, supposed to reach maximum on the nights of the 12th and 13th. I tell you this mostly to point out that, yet again, the moon is going to be too bright to make much of them, being damn near full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[4846,991,3991,5037],"class_list":["post-24255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-photo","tag-full-moon","tag-meteor-shower","tag-perseids-meteor-shower","tag-prove-me-wrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}