{"id":999,"date":"2012-08-13T18:47:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T17:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/?p=999"},"modified":"2012-08-14T10:17:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T09:17:10","slug":"perseids-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/2012\/08\/perseids-2012","title":{"rendered":"The Perseid Meteor Shower 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend the meteor shower known as the Perseids peaked. I was out two nights in a row and took about 300 photos. The conditions were not that good, it was cloudy and the air was so humid that my lens kept fogging up. I have to buy some sort of dew heater. Anyway, guess how\u00a0many meteors I caught? Two! Both of them pretty faint, and one of them even partially hidden behind a cloud. *sigh*<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1013\" title=\"Perseid\" src=\"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/perseid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>I used my standard 18-55mm lens at 18mm. I took a series of 20 second exposures at f\/3.5 and ISO 1600.\u00a0Zooming in on the non-clouded meteor I discovered something cool: The first half of it is green. Apparently this is because the meteor contains magnesium, which shines in blue-green when ignited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend the meteor shower known as the Perseids peaked. I was out two nights in a row and took about 300 photos. The conditions were not that good, and I only caught two meteors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}