{"id":2501,"date":"2009-10-19T15:34:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T22:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deathgleaner.wordpress.com\/?p=625"},"modified":"2013-11-06T21:11:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T04:11:15","slug":"orionids-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/orionids-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Orionid Meteor Showers this Wednesday\u2026 who&#039;s watching?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Right:<\/strong> An Orionid meteor photographed on Oct. 21, 2008, by amateur astronomer Rich Swanson of Sierra Vista, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m watching! Historically, the only meteor showers I&#8217;ve ever watched are the Perseids, around August 12, but every time, I miss them. This year, I woke up at 2AM that day, and looked up at the sky. Nothing but light pollution from Seattle, and the sky was cloudy. BOO.<\/p>\n<p>According to NASA (article <a href=\"http:\/\/science1.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2009\/19oct_orionids\/\" class=\"broken_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>), the Orionid meteor showers this year &#8220;could be a very good show.&#8221; Year after year, I miss these showers, which come from Halley&#8217;s comet&#8217;s debris, but thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/a>, I&#8217;m up to date.<\/p>\n<p>The best time to see the meteor shower is before sunrise on Wednesday, October 21st. Lucky for me, I wake up before sunrise every day Monday &#8211; Friday. The ZHR (Zenithal Hourly Rate) is 60, which means on average one can expect to see sixty meteors shooting through the sky per hour. That&#8217;s about one per minute, but hopefully, the skies are clear and the meteors are bright.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to watch them, wake up around 5AM or 5:30, and look south-east towards Orion. You can&#8217;t miss it.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Nope. It was cloudy today :(. Couldn&#8217;t see a darn thing. I&#8217;ll see if I can catch any meteors tomorrow (October 22nd, also the day when Windows 7 is released!)<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right: An Orionid meteor photographed on Oct. 21, 2008, by amateur astronomer Rich Swanson of Sierra Vista, Arizona. I&#8217;m watching! Historically, the only meteor showers I&#8217;ve ever watched are the Perseids, around August 12, but every time, I miss them. This year, I woke up at 2AM that day, and looked up at the sky. Nothing but light pollution from &#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Blog Post: Orionid Meteor Showers this Wednesday\u2026 who's watching? http:\/\/wp.me\/px35l-a5 #wordpress #blog","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Zt3y-El","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3676,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions\/3676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}