{"id":16141,"date":"2021-08-09T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=16141"},"modified":"2021-08-11T09:11:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T13:11:14","slug":"take-5-starry-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-starry-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Take 5: Starry Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What are you up to this Wednesday night? Hopefully, you’re planning for a bit of stargazing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The peak of the Perseid meteor shower\u2014the most viewed shower of the year\u2014falls on the night of August 11\u201312 this year. After midnight, shooting stars, as many as 60 per hour, will flare through the darkened sky. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While we can only cross our fingers and hope for clear enough skies to take in the majesty of the Perseids, you don’t need to stay up late or watch the weather to enjoy these five photos of starry night skies from our annual Picture This: Your Great Outdoors<\/a> photo contest. But if you do happen to catch a “falling star” don’t forget to make a wish!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Milky Way \u00a9 Rick Branscomb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Backyard Stargazing \u00a9 Mark Uchneat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Milky Way \u00a9 Andrew March<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Milky Way \u00a9 Robert Killam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Milky Way \u00a9 Alyssa O’Mara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What are you up to this Wednesday night? Hopefully, you’re planning for a bit of stargazing! The peak of the Perseid meteor shower\u2014the most viewed shower of the year\u2014falls on the night of August 11\u201312 this year. After midnight, shooting stars, as many as 60 per hour, will flare through the darkened sky. While we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":16144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[158],"tags":[20,421,422,84,97],"class_list":["post-16141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-take-5","tag-astronomy","tag-astrophotography","tag-night-sky","tag-photography","tag-stars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/08\/4244Andrew_March31661.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-4cl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12780,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-seeing-stars\/","url_meta":{"origin":16141,"position":0},"title":"Take 5: Seeing Stars","author":"Ryan D.","date":"August 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Summer is such a fantastic time of year for stargazing. 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