{"id":37240,"date":"2024-07-25T20:57:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T00:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=37240"},"modified":"2024-07-25T20:57:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T00:57:03","slug":"whats-your-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/07\/whats-your-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s your sign?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m old enough to remember when that was a big factor in dating, though not quite old enough to have used it in such a manner. But in this case, it’s only in reference to two meteor showers due to peak in a few days, the southern delta Aquariids and the alpha Capricornids, both coming in right before the end of the month, which means anytime from this point on. Unfortunately, there’s still a third-quarter (half) moon rising in the wee hours when the meteors start showing up better, which is the case too often, but so it goes. I can guarantee certain results if you stay indoors, however, the same results as if I hadn’t mentioned them at all. C’mon, the temperature is going to be far better than any of the winter storms, so have at it.<\/p>\n

As always, I will be back with any spectacular meteor images that I capture, but you know how that<\/em> trend has been going (no, you likely don’t, but let’s just say that the trove of spectacular meteor images, like my sports trophy case, remains distinctly barren.) I keep hoping, though, which is far more optimistic than I normally am and which might be part of the problem. I don’t know how<\/em>, really, but at this point I’ll settle for any explanation.<\/p>\n

So go ahead and show me up – I’ll be happy for you. Really.<\/p>\n

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It’s admittedly disturbing that the best meteor trail that I’ve ever gotten, above, was achieved on perhaps my very first attempt with a truly inadequate camera, on print film, well over 30 years ago. Can anyone’s luck remain this resolutely bad? Or is there something radical that I’m doing wrong? I no longer have that Wittnauer Challenger, but I think I have an old Argus C3 ‘Brick’ that I could dig out…<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m old enough to remember when that was a big factor in dating, though not quite old enough to have used it in such a manner. But in this case, it’s only in reference to two meteor showers due to peak in a few days, the southern delta Aquariids and the alpha Capricornids, both coming […]<\/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":[4476,7763,675,991,189,4475],"class_list":["post-37240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-alpha-capricornids","tag-fuck-all","tag-long-exposures","tag-meteor-shower","tag-night-sky-photography","tag-southern-delta-aquariids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37240","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=37240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}