{"id":77359,"date":"2025-08-19T08:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77359\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:41:07","slug":"perseid-meteor-shower-captured-over-durdle-door-dorset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77359\/","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":77360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-77359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}