{"id":204,"date":"2007-10-19T17:13:38","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T16:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2022-05-04T20:41:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T19:41:45","slug":"meteor-watch-orionids-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Meteor Watch &#8211; Orionids weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"image-fixer-wrapper\"><p>Don't forget to watch the skies for the next few nights - this weekend is the peak of the Orionid meteor shower. I saw a few of these meteors last night, they were fast with long trails, but not particularly bright so catching them on camera might be a bit more tricky than <a href=\"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=138\">catching the Perseids<\/a>. Weather permitting, I'll give it a shot and see what the D50 can capture. It'll be a chance to try out the new gadgets (<a href=\"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=162\">remote control<\/a>, angled viewfinder and <a href=\"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=200\">tripod<\/a>) bought since the Perseid shower.<\/p>\r\n<p>Here are a few choice links in case you want more info:<\/p>\r\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imo.net\/calendar\/2007\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.imo.net\/calendar\/2007<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_meteor_showers\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_meteor_showers<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/stardate.org\/nightsky\/meteors\/orionids2007.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/stardate.org\/nightsky\/meteors\/orionids2007.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/spacewatch\/071019-ns-orionids.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/spacewatch\/071019-ns-orionids.html<\/a><\/p><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don't forget to watch the skies for the next few nights - this weekend is the peak of the Orionid meteor shower. I saw a few of these meteors last night, they were fast with long trails, but not particularly bright so catching them on camera might be a bit more tricky than catching the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astrostuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/Augmeteorshowers-O.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18552,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/18552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}