{"id":6584,"date":"2016-08-12T03:16:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T02:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/napierski.net\/blog\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2016-08-21T10:28:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T09:28:44","slug":"perseid-meteors-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napierski.net\/blog\/perseid-meteors-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseid Meteors 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Perseids<\/strong> \/\u02c8p\u0259rsi\u02d0\u026adz\/ are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift\u2013Tuttle. The Perseids are so called because the point from which they appear to come, called the radiant, lies in the constellation <strong>Perseus<\/strong>. The name derives in part from the word Perseides (\u03a0\u03b5\u03c1\u03c3\u03b5\u03af\u03b4\u03b5\u03c2), a term found in Greek mythology referring to the sons of Perseus.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6585\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/napierski.net\/blog\/perseid-meteors-2016\/img_3648\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3648.jpg?fit=2366%2C2319&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2366,2319\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3648\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3648.jpg?fit=1024%2C1004&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3648.jpg?resize=584%2C573&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG_3648\" width=\"584\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3648.jpg?resize=1024%2C1004&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3648.jpg?resize=300%2C294&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3648.jpg?resize=768%2C753&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3648.jpg?resize=306%2C300&amp;ssl=1 306w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3648.jpg?w=2200&amp;ssl=1 2200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6586\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/napierski.net\/blog\/perseid-meteors-2016\/img_3649\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3649.jpg?fit=2475%2C1650&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2475,1650\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3649\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3649.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6586\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3649.jpg?resize=584%2C390&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG_3649\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3649.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3649.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3649.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3649.jpg?resize=450%2C300&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3649.jpg?w=2200&amp;ssl=1 2200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Perseids \/\u02c8p\u0259rsi\u02d0\u026adz\/ are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift\u2013Tuttle. The Perseids are so called because the point from which they appear to come, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Perseus. The name derives in part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/napierski.net\/blog\/perseid-meteors-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,55,19],"tags":[703,169,70,704,32,53,485,331],"class_list":["post-6584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape","category-poland","category-warsaw","tag-meteors","tag-night","tag-otwock","tag-perseids","tag-river","tag-sky","tag-stars","tag-vistula"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6632,"href":"https:\/\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions\/6632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napierski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}