{"id":68398,"date":"2024-08-01T08:31:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T12:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=68398"},"modified":"2024-08-13T10:03:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T14:03:22","slug":"perseids-peak-is-august-12-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/01\/perseids-peak-is-august-12-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseids &#8211; Peak is August 12\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Perseids-Joe1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68399\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Perseids-Joe1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Perseids-Joe1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Perseids-Joe1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best meteor shower of summer belongs to the Perseids. The entire shower lasts from July 14 to September 1 with the peak period being the night of August 12 into the morning of the 13. But the night before and after should still result in a spectacular cosmic show. The first quarter moon will set on the 12th around 11:30 pm local time and midnight on the 13th.<\/p>\n<p>With the lunar glow gone, conditions will be ideal to see the estimated 90 meteors per hour including a few bright fireballs. Away from the glow of city lights will reveal the band of our Milky Way Galaxy. The planet Saturn will rise after 9 pm with the pair of\u00a0 Mars and brighter Jupiter after 1 a.m. Any astronomy cell phone app will show their position. Both are closest (conjunction) on the morning of the 14th with a separation less than the width of the full moon. Enjoy these sand-sized particles of Comet Swift-Tuttle as they safely vaporize in the atmosphere at about 72 kilometres per second.<\/p>\n<p>What a great way to spend vacation at your favourite campsite or cottage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best meteor shower of summer belongs to the Perseids. The entire shower lasts from July 14 to September 1 with the peak period being the night of August 12 into the morning of the 13. But the night before and after should still result in a spectacular cosmic show. The first quarter moon will &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomer"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 22:24:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68400,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68398\/revisions\/68400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}