{"id":372,"date":"2014-10-21T23:46:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T05:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2014-10-21T23:48:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T05:48:29","slug":"striking-out-with-the-orionids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Striking out with the Orionids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orionid meteor shower last night was predicted to yield 20 or more meteors per hour. That was probably right &#8211; I must have seen about that many from the not-so-dark shore of the Boulder reservoir &#8211; but they were all way too  faint to make an interesting image. I made the best of it with a vertical stitch of trailed stars. Going more than 90 degrees above the horizon makes for some weird looking effects even with a spherical projection!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/reservoir.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/reservoir-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Boulder reservoir stars\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/reservoir-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/reservoir-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/reservoir.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orionid meteor shower last night was predicted to yield 20 or more meteors per hour. That was probably right &#8211; I must have seen about that many from the not-so-dark shore of the Boulder reservoir &#8211; but they were &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=372\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-night","category-star-trails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}