{"id":1296,"date":"2012-11-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2012-11-13T19:56:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T02:56:53","slug":"leonids-meteor-shower-best-2am-111812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"Leonids meteor shower: best 2am 11\/18\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2012-november-13-20\">The Sky This Week, 2012 November 13 &#8211; 20 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Moonlight shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t interfere with this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s display of the annual Leonids meteor shower. Conveniently this display peaks on the night of the 17th\/18th, with best viewing times between 2:00 am and morning twilight on the 18th. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 This year expectations are for a more &#8220;normal&#8221; display with perhaps 20 or so meteors visible per hour in a dark location, but the shower is notoriously unpredictable in its &#8220;off&#8221; years, so you may see many more or possibly many fewer. The meteors themselves are very swift, traversing 20 or 30 degrees of the sky in a fleeting instant, with the brighter members leaving persistent smoke trains. The shower radiant is in the &#8220;head&#8221; of the constellation of Leo, the Lion. <em>[mjh: look for the backward question mark that forms Leo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head (body to the left\/north).]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2012-november-13-20\">The Sky This Week, 2012 November 13 &#8211; 20 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky This Week, 2012 November 13 &#8211; 20 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal Moonlight shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t interfere with this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s display of the annual Leonids meteor shower. Conveniently this display peaks on the night of the 17th\/18th, with best viewing times between 2:00 am and morning twilight on the 18th. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 This year expectations are for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1296\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leonids meteor shower: best 2am 11\/18\/12<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}