{"id":356387,"date":"2025-08-19T08:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356387\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:55:11","slug":"perseid-meteor-shower-captured-over-durdle-door-dorset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356387\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseid meteor shower captured over Durdle Door, Dorset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Josh Dury used clever camera techniques to document the scene as he spent several nights at the Durdle Door limestone arch landmark.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: &#8220;Unfortunately, the bright waning gibbous moon will blot out this year\u2019s display, so I had a go imaging them at the beginning of the month.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I attempted to capture meteors between July 28 to August 1 and got 14 meteors documented over a six-hour integration.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It was a longer integration this time to capture some meteors, but obviously not as active during the peak.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Data was captured using long exposure tracking the sky using a star tracker to record meteors.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Images were stacked in sequence using photo-editing software and stacked to increase signal to noise ratio.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Perseids are named after the constellation Perseus, from which they appear to radiate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Dury used clever camera techniques to document the scene as he spent several nights at the Durdle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-356387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115054596851827765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}