{"id":7791,"date":"2004-08-12T02:26:23","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T00:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/12\/perseid-meteor-shower\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"perseid-meteor-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/12\/perseid-meteor-shower\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseid meteor shower"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20040812-perseids_meteors.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Lev, Hazard, Olga and I went to see the Perseid meteor shower today.  I even took my camera and a tripod hoping to make a couple of wonderful pictures.  Unfortunately, the skies were not very clear = there were some really ugly moving clouds.  And we didn&#8217;t manage to get far enough from the city.  Plenty of lights were still on at Kurium beach, so the star visibility was rather poor.<\/p>\n<p>We have seen few very nice meteor drops, but it was really impossible to photograph those.  I had the camera constantly on 30 second exposure shots, but all that was coming out were black skies with no stars or meteors.<\/p>\n<p>The activity of the rain was poor too.  We have seen only about 5 or so very bright and long-tailed meteors.  Another 20 or so were spontaneous, random and in different regions of the sky.  Finally we got bored and went home.  So, no supershower for us, eh.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Lev, Hazard, Olga and I went to see the Perseid meteor shower today. I even took my camera and a tripod hoping to make a couple of wonderful pictures. Unfortunately, the skies were not very clear = there were some really ugly moving clouds. And we didn&#8217;t manage to get far enough from the city. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/12\/perseid-meteor-shower\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perseid meteor shower<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2422],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7786,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/10\/perseid-meteor-shower-is-coming\/","url_meta":{"origin":7791,"position":0},"title":"Perseid meteor shower is coming","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 10, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"If you enjoy star watching, then you should get yourself ready for Perseid meteor shower. 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