{"id":1216,"date":"2023-08-13T21:02:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T01:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2025-02-25T01:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T06:00:24","slug":"perseid-meteor-shower-august-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/?p=1216","title":{"rendered":"Perseid meteor shower, August 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:100.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-20230813-brighter.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-20230813-brighter.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-20230813-brighter.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-20230813-brighter.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1200&#038;ssl=1 1200w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-20230813-brighter.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1500&#038;ssl=1 1500w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-20230813-brighter.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1800&#038;ssl=1 1800w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-20230813-brighter.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=2000&#038;ssl=1 2000w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"6000\" data-id=\"1451\" data-link=\"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/?attachment_id=1451\" data-url=\"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-20230813-brighter.jpg\" data-width=\"4000\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-20230813-brighter.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open image 1 of 1 in full-screen\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This picture is a composite of many meteors captured over several hours. It is clear how all the meteors originate from the same point in the sky in the constellation Perseus. Due to their chemical composition, the Perseids give off a distinctive green glow as they burn through the atmosphere. The <a href=\"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/?p=878\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"878\">Andromeda Galaxy<\/a> is visible halfway up the picture on the right side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This picture is a composite of many meteors captured over several hours. It is clear how all the meteors originate from the same point in the sky in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astro"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-20230813-brighter.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}