{"id":40385,"date":"2025-11-13T23:52:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T04:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=40385"},"modified":"2025-11-13T23:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T04:52:26","slug":"you-can-always-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2025\/11\/you-can-always-try\/","title":{"rendered":"You can always try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/NotLeonid.jpg\" alt=\"night time exposure view of Orion with plane passing through\" width=\"750\" height=\"497\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40386\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This is just to give you adequate notice that the <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-leonid-meteor-shower\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leonids meteor shower<\/a> is expected to peak the evening\/morning of the 16<sup>th<\/sup>\/17<sup>th<\/sup>, just a few nights away. While it is not forecast to be a significant one this time around, it has a tendency to be a decent display, so go for it.<\/p>\n<p>Just to let you know, pictured is not Leo, but Orion, and not a meteor, but a plane of course. I have no worthwhile pics of a Leonid meteor, or indeed any, and not from being lazy. But we needed something here to capture your attention, and I just got this shot recently. <em>Rest assured<\/em>, if I get a decent image of a meteor, you will not only know about it, but I will be celebrating this long overdue event, a cake and a DJ and possibly a trained elephant. Don&#8217;t get me started&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just to give you adequate notice that the Leonids meteor shower is expected to peak the evening\/morning of the 16th\/17th, just a few nights away. While it is not forecast to be a significant one this time around, it has a tendency to be a decent display, so go for it. Just to [&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":[3796,990,991,477],"class_list":["post-40385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-photo","tag-its-a-bird","tag-leonids","tag-meteor-shower","tag-orion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40385","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=40385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}