{"id":26595,"date":"2023-08-16T01:03:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T05:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=26595"},"modified":"2023-08-14T15:02:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T19:02:50","slug":"heavenly-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/heavenly-shower\/","title":{"rendered":"heavenly shower"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26596\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Leonid1833Woodcut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26596\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26596\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Leonid1833Woodcut-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">an 1833 woodcut of the 1833 Leonids display over Niagara Falls<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Each year as the world rotates around the sun, it passes through the comet debris known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perseids\">Perseids<\/a> meteors. The best and most spectacular display of the resulting &#8216;shooting stars&#8217; is mid August. While Astronomical \u00a0Photography was and is common, it is difficult to find the earliest date the Perseids were captured by a photographer.<\/p>\n<p>Another impressive exhibition of &#8216;shooting stars&#8217; is called the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonids\">Leonids<\/a> and appears about every 33 years so it will occur again around 2030 give or take. The image at left is an 1833 woodcut of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasc.ca\/leonids-1833\">Leonids<\/a> display over our Niagara Falls in November of that year (courtesy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasc.ca\/\">Royal Astronomical Society of Canada<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Meantime , keep an eye or camera peeled for the Perseids this year &#8211; your image may be of historical importance in the future. Do a Google search for recent photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Each year as the world rotates around the sun, it passes through the comet debris known as the Perseids meteors. The best and most spectacular display of the resulting &#8216;shooting stars&#8217; is mid August. While Astronomical \u00a0Photography was and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/heavenly-shower\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[526,398,4412,4411,4131],"class_list":["post-26595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-astronomy","tag-camera","tag-leonids","tag-perseids","tag-telescope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26595"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26599,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595\/revisions\/26599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}