{"id":38647,"date":"2025-04-18T23:40:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T03:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=38647"},"modified":"2025-04-18T23:40:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T03:40:41","slug":"your-april-reminders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2025\/04\/your-april-reminders\/","title":{"rendered":"Your April reminders"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mean, you can simply look at the posts from previous years on the sidebar, there, to get these, and I can save myself the typing effort, but you’re not gonna do that, are you?<\/p>\n

So once again, I’ll remind you that the Lyrids meteor shower<\/strong><\/a> is going on right now, but will peak on the night of April 21st<\/sup>, or more accurately, the morning of April 22nd<\/sup>, and I could be outside right now firing off time exposures instead of telling you this again, so since I’m making the sacrifice for you<\/em>, you should go out some time in the next few nights and do some night sky exposures – chances are you’ll do better than I ever have in all my years of attempting to get a decent meteor trail or fireball.<\/p>\n

Earth Day<\/strong><\/a> is April 22nd<\/sup>, and you should have big plans for that. My suggestion is, plant something for every post you’ve ever made on Twitter, or whatever it’s called this week. And no, grass seed doesn’t count.<\/p>\n

And April 24th<\/sup> is the 35th<\/sup> anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope<\/strong>, still going strong despite the contributions from the James Webb Space Telescope. Eventually, it will be de-commissioned and you’re going to regret not appreciating it when you could have, so get on that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can thank me through that Tip Jar thingy on the sidebar, there. I’m going to go shoot the night sky while it’s nice.<\/p>\n

\"'Mystic
Hubble Captures View of Mystic Mountain
NASA Hubble Space Telescope captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars in a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a>
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I mean, you can simply look at the posts from previous years on the sidebar, there, to get these, and I can save myself the typing effort, but you’re not gonna do that, are you? So once again, I’ll remind you that the Lyrids meteor shower is going on right now, but will peak on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,3],"tags":[7670,1735,791,6711,8057],"class_list":["post-38647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-nature","category-photo","tag-carina-nebula","tag-earth-day","tag-hubble-space-telescope","tag-lyrids-meteor-shower","tag-mystic-mountain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38647","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=38647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}