{"id":401,"date":"2008-08-12T04:02:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T11:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=401"},"modified":"2025-05-29T21:44:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T01:44:26","slug":"perseids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/08\/perseids\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just got back from checking out the Perseid meteor shower. It&#8217;s pretty difficult to escape light pollution around here, but Reid was able to take us to a spot where we still had a pretty good view of the show. Pics below. (Click for full resolution.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid1-1.jpg\" alt=\"black\" class=\"wp-image-402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid1-1.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid1-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid1-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid1-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid1-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">One of the first ones we saw. Not very bright.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid2-1.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid2-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid2-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This one was nice, long, and bright. The iPhone doesn&#8217;t fully capture it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid3-1-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"black\" class=\"wp-image-404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid3-1-rotated.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid3-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid3-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/perseid3-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">It was getting pretty cold at the end so we said we would wait for one more that we all saw before leaving. This is the final meteor that we all spotted, and it had a unique orange glow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I just need to decide if I should try and sleep or just go to work really early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from checking out the Perseid meteor shower. It&#8217;s pretty difficult to escape light pollution around here, but Reid was able to take us to a spot where we still had a pretty good view of the show. Pics below. (Click for full resolution.) Now I just need to decide if I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/08\/perseids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perseids<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3337,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}