{"id":24541,"date":"2019-10-07T23:57:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T03:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=24541"},"modified":"2019-10-07T23:57:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T03:57:50","slug":"draconids-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2019\/10\/draconids-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Draconids tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick reminder, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-draconid-meteor-shower\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Draconids meteor shower<\/a> is peaking the evening of October 8th and 9th. As usual, the moon is a bit too bright for optimum viewing, but give it a shot anyway. What have you got to lose, except for sleep, patience, body heat, battery power, blood to mosquitoes, dropped keys, and possibly your virtue if you&#8217;re out there with someone else? Plus you can do a couple of moon shots to see what I mean about shooting something less-than-full, or some longer time exposures of the landscape by the <em>light<\/em> of the moon. Go for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick reminder, but the Draconids meteor shower is peaking the evening of October 8th and 9th. As usual, the moon is a bit too bright for optimum viewing, but give it a shot anyway. What have you got to lose, except for sleep, patience, body heat, battery power, blood to mosquitoes, dropped keys, [&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],"tags":[5125,991,2094,189],"class_list":["post-24541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-draconids-meteor-shower","tag-meteor-shower","tag-night-exposures","tag-night-sky-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24541","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=24541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}