{"id":617,"date":"2020-08-24T17:03:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T07:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robbinsrendezvous.com\/?p=617"},"modified":"2020-08-24T17:03:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T07:03:54","slug":"perseid-meteor-shower-peaks-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"Perseid Meteor Shower peaks tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Meteor1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-618\" width=\"801\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Meteor1.png 801w, https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Meteor1-480x319.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 801px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption>Credit: Allan Robbins (Creative Commons Lisense)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1863\" height=\"1216\" src=\"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Meteor3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Meteor3.png 1863w, https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Meteor3-1280x835.png 1280w, https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Meteor3-980x640.png 980w, https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Meteor3-480x313.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1863px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Jacopo_Werther\" target=\"_blank\">Credit: <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Perseids_2015.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jacopo Werther<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aug. 11, 2020: If your tire of social media grumbles, creation might have an alternative for you the next couple nights. <br><br>The <strong>Perseid meteor and fireball showe<\/strong>r is at its best tonight and tomorrow night and it was pretty fantastic last night. NASA estimates an average of 50 to 120 meteors per hour, but in my experience you can go up to 10 minutes without seeing a thing and then see 4 in two seconds. The Perseids are especially known for their long slow colorful fireballs that streak clear across the sky every so often\u2026slow enough you can blink a couple times and they\u2019re still going. I include a shot of the only fireball I captured last night, and my phone camera couldn\u2019t pick up all the smaller meteors. but I include a shot taken by another photographer. To watch them tonight, find a dark, starry patch of sky after 10PM (even better after 2PM). (It was 4PM last night before the clouds cleared at our house) Lie on your back and look up about halfway between the horizon and overhead. They are going all directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 11, 2020: If your tire of social media grumbles, creation might have an alternative for you the next couple nights. The Perseid meteor and fireball shower is at its best tonight and tomorrow night and it was pretty fantastic last night. NASA estimates an average of 50 to 120 meteors per hour, but in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}