{"id":266029,"date":"2026-01-04T00:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266029\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:45:12","slug":"your-chance-to-spot-the-first-supermoon-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266029\/","title":{"rendered":"Your chance to spot the first supermoon of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Saturday, 3 January 2026 11:22\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/259889-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                     Picture credit: Manx Radio<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The Quadrantid meteor shower will also take place tonight\n        <\/p>\n<p>Did you see the first supermoon of the year this morning?<\/p>\n<p>If not, you&#8217;ll get another chance tonight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Astronomer Howard Parkin says Island residents will be in for a treat and there&#8217;ll also be the Quadrantid meteor shower.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The display, according to Mr Parkin, can produce up to 100 meteors an hour and will be seen from the northern horizon around midnight:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Howard Parkin will deliver a talk on the moon at Taste of Italy in St Johns on Friday (9 January) from 7pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, 3 January 2026 11:22 Picture credit: Manx Radio The Quadrantid meteor shower will also take place tonight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,20161,19,17,20158,20159,20160,337,5,20162],"class_list":{"0":"post-266029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fun","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-isle-of-man","14":"tag-manx","15":"tag-manx-news","16":"tag-music","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-presenters"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115834068906695765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}