{"id":3857,"date":"2013-08-16T21:58:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T01:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2013-08-17T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T13:24:52","slug":"nova-delphini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3857","title":{"rendered":"Nova Delphini 2013 &#038; Perseid Meteor Shower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/104192\/update-on-the-bright-nova-delphini-2013-plus-a-gallery-of-images-from-our-readers\/\" target=\"_blank\">supernova <\/a>of my time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\" The bright new Nova Delphini 2013, as seen from Puerto Rico on August 16th, 03:13ut Credit: Efrain Morales\/Jaicoa Observatory.  \" src=\"http:\/\/d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SN-Del-081613-0313ut-L2m-R70s-G100s-B40-EMr-580x418.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"418\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The new nova is located in Delphinus alongside the familiar Summer Triangle outlined by Deneb, Vega and Altair. This map shows the sky looking high in the south for mid-northern latitudes around 10 p.m. local time in mid-August. The new object is ideally placed for viewing. Stellarium\" src=\"http:\/\/d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Nova-Del-stellarium-580x513.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"513\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My own take (coordinates 20h 23m 19.8s\/+20<b>\u00b0<\/b>50'26.0\" [J2000]):<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3864\" style=\"width: 901px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Nova-Delphini-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3864\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3864\" alt=\"Nova Delphini 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Nova-Delphini-2013.jpg\" width=\"891\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Nova-Delphini-2013.jpg 891w, http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Nova-Delphini-2013-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 891px) 100vw, 891px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nova Delphini 2013<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just a few days ago (+- Aug 12) there was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/104024\/persied-meteor-shower-2013-images-from-around-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Perseid Meteor shower<\/a>. An event I did not witness.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A composite of stacked images of the Perseid Meteor Shower on August 11, 2013 seen from Lindisfarne (Holy Island) off the northeast coast of England. Credit and copyright: Peter Greig.\" src=\"http:\/\/d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/perseid-greig.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a supernova of my time. My own take (coordinates 20h 23m 19.8s\/+20\u00b050'26.0\" [J2000]): &nbsp; Just a few days ago (+- Aug 12) there was Perseid Meteor shower. An event I did not witness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3867,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions\/3867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}