{"id":168594,"date":"2023-07-29T10:33:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T15:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/watch-for-fireballs-from-two-meteor-showers-in-the-coming-days"},"modified":"2023-07-29T10:33:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T15:33:03","slug":"watch-for-fireballs-from-two-meteor-showers-in-the-coming-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/watch-for-fireballs-from-two-meteor-showers-in-the-coming-days","title":{"rendered":"Watch for fireballs from two meteor showers in the coming days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-for-fireballs-from-two-meteor-showers-in-the-coming-days.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two meteor showers, the Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids, are both expected to peak during the evenings of July 30 and 31.<\/p>\n<p>They will have to compete with a bright moon that\u2019s 95% full, but the Alpha Capricornids may still produce some scintillating fireballs that could outshine the moon.<\/p>\n<p>The Delta Aquariids, also called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsmeteors.org\/meteor-showers\/meteor-shower-calendar\/#Southern+delta+Aquariids\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Delta Aquariids<\/a>, will favor skywatchers in the Southern Hemisphere, although they will still be visible in the Northern Hemisphere (especially across the southern US) but lower on the horizon, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-delta-aquarid-meteor-shower\/\" target=\"_blank\">EarthSky<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two meteor showers, the Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids, are both expected to peak during the evenings of July 30 and 31. They will have to compete with a bright moon that\u2019s 95% full, but the Alpha Capricornids may still produce some scintillating fireballs that could outshine the moon. The Delta Aquariids, also called the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}