{"id":696,"date":"2004-12-13T14:59:28","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T19:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2004\/12\/13\/physorg-the-best-meteor-shower-of-2004-peaks-on-dec-13th\/"},"modified":"2004-12-13T14:59:28","modified_gmt":"2004-12-13T19:59:28","slug":"physorg-the-best-meteor-shower-of-2004-peaks-on-dec-13th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2004\/12\/13\/physorg-the-best-meteor-shower-of-2004-peaks-on-dec-13th\/","title":{"rendered":"PhysOrg: The best meteor shower of 2004 peaks on Dec. 13th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news2323.html\">PhysOrg: The best meteor shower of 2004 peaks on Dec. 13th<\/a>: &#8220;Make hot cocoa. Bundle up. Tell your friends: the best meteor shower of 2004 is about to peak on a long cold December night.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the Geminids. The best time to look is Monday night, Dec. 13th. Sky watchers who stay outside for a few hours around midnight can expect to see dozens to hundreds of &#8216;shooting stars.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Update 2004-12-13:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=132529&amp;cid=11068908\">this post on slashdot suggests<\/a>: &#8220;If you have an old-type film camera, put it on top of a tripod and set it to Bulb mode (in most cameras marked as B). If it is really old, take the battery out, they will function without any power (Mitra, I love these old Prakticas and Zenits). Point it towards gemini or zenith, if you don&#8217;t know where gemini is. Leave it for 15-20 minutes running, aperture around f\/2-3. Move to a new frame after the period is finished. The chances are you will capture more than a couple of shots. if you leave it pointed to Gemini, the shots will be more spectacular.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/space.com\/spacewatch\/041210_geminid_meteors.html\">another article says<\/a>: &#8220;The Geminids get their name    from the constellation of Gemini, the Twins. On the night of this shower\u2019s maximum,    the meteors will appear to emanate from a spot in the sky near the bright star    Castor in Gemini.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/images\/041210_geminid_map_02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhysOrg: The best meteor shower of 2004 peaks on Dec. 13th: &#8220;Make hot cocoa. Bundle up. Tell your friends: the best meteor shower of 2004 is about to peak on a long cold December night. It&#8217;s the Geminids. The best time to look is Monday night, Dec. 13th. Sky watchers who stay outside for a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2004\/12\/13\/physorg-the-best-meteor-shower-of-2004-peaks-on-dec-13th\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PhysOrg: The best meteor shower of 2004 peaks on Dec. 13th<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-be","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}