{"id":194110,"date":"2024-08-06T02:25:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T07:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/perseid-meteor-shower-2024-peaks-this-weekend-heres-how-to-see-summers-best-shooting-stars"},"modified":"2024-08-06T02:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T07:25:57","slug":"perseid-meteor-shower-2024-peaks-this-weekend-heres-how-to-see-summers-best-shooting-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/perseid-meteor-shower-2024-peaks-this-weekend-heres-how-to-see-summers-best-shooting-stars","title":{"rendered":"Perseid meteor shower 2024 peaks this weekend. Here\u2019s how to see summer\u2019s best \u2018shooting stars\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/perseid-meteor-shower-2024-peaks-this-weekend-heres-how-to-see-summers-best-shooting-stars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Perseid is one whose path, if traced backward across the sky, intersects a spot between the constellations Perseus and Cassiopeia. Other \u201csporadic\u201d meteors traveling in random directions occur once every 5 or 10 minutes. Two much weaker showers are <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/perseid-meteor-shower-2024-what-to-expect\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/perseid-meteor-shower-2024-what-to-expect\">also active at this time of the year<\/a>, the Delta Aquarids and Kappa Cygnids.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll need no experience to watch the Perseids. Just find a spot with a wide-open sky view and no late-night lights nearby. Bundle up warmly (it can sometimes get chilly even on summer nights), lie back on a ground pad or in a sleeping bag or even better, on a reclining lawn chair, and watch the stars. Also cover exposed parts of your body with mosquito repellent so you won\u2019t get bit.<\/p>\n<p>Be patient, and give your eyes sufficient time to dark adapt. The direction to watch is not necessarily toward Perseus but wherever your sky is darkest, probably straight up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Perseid is one whose path, if traced backward across the sky, intersects a spot between the constellations Perseus and Cassiopeia. Other \u201csporadic\u201d meteors traveling in random directions occur once every 5 or 10 minutes. Two much weaker showers are also active at this time of the year, the Delta Aquarids and Kappa Cygnids. You\u2019ll [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194110","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}