{"id":226198,"date":"2026-01-04T01:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226198\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T01:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:45:15","slug":"your-chance-to-spot-the-first-supermoon-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226198\/","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.newsbeep.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":226199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,19531,61,60,19528,19529,19530,278,43,1342],"class_list":["post-226198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}