{"id":24493,"date":"2021-09-24T04:56:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T04:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24493"},"modified":"2021-09-24T04:56:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T04:56:37","slug":"perseid-outburst-at-westmeath-lookout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24493","title":{"rendered":"Perseid Outburst at Westmeath Lookout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2109\/IMG_9365-Aug1314-2021-282-meteors1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>This year an outburst of Perseid meteors surprised skywatchers. The reliable meteor shower&#8217;s peak was predicted for the night of August 12\/13. But persistent visual observers in North America were deluged with a startling Perseid shower outburst a day later, with reports of multiple meteors per minute and sometimes per second in the early hours of August 14. The shower radiant is high in a dark night sky in this composite image. It painstakingly registers the trails of 282 Perseids captured during the stunning outburst activity between 0650 UT (02:50am EDT) and 0900 UT (05:00am EDT) on August 14 from Westmeath Lookout, Ontario. Of course the annual Perseid meteor shower is associated with planet Earth&#8217;s passage through dusty debris from periodic comet 109P\/Swift-Tuttle. The 2021 outburst could have been caused by an unanticipated encounter with the Perseid Filament, a denser ribbon of dust inside the broader debris zone. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap210924.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year an outburst of Perseid meteors surprised skywatchers. The reliable meteor shower&#8217;s peak was predicted for the night of August 12\/13. But persistent visual observers in North America were <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24493\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-24493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24494,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24493\/revisions\/24494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}