{"id":2856,"date":"2012-01-04T12:30:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T16:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2012-01-04T12:30:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T16:30:30","slug":"first-of-2012-the-quadrantids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/first-of-2012-the-quadrantids\/","title":{"rendered":"First of 2012 &#8211; The Quadrantids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"meteor shower Lebanon\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7143\/6633767945_a233c84c86_m.jpg?resize=192%2C128\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"128\" \/>Yep, it&#8217;s been a while since the last post. \u00a0Busy time of year, between work and family, and Christmas and New Years it&#8217;s just been constant running around. \u00a0But I did manage to kick off the New Year, photographically speaking, early this morning down by the Lebanon Green in frigid cold. \u00a0The\u00a0Quadrantid meteor shower was peaking around 3:30am, so I decided to stay up and try to capture a few.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Well, I didn&#8217;t see all that many streaking across the sky &#8211; maybe a dozen or so in the 2+ hours I was out in the field. \u00a0I did manage to catch one in a photo, though, so all wasn&#8217;t lost. \u00a0But as the time of the peak passed, I aimed the camera at Orion, Polaris and Ursa Major to get some different star trail shots while I was out and about. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the group of photos I&#8217;ve processed from the run out into the cold.<\/p>\n[AFG_gallery id=&#8217;3&#8242;]\n<p>I&#8217;ll also be posting some more railroad photos soon &#8211; especially a bunch from the Valley Railroad&#8217;s North Pole Express trains I&#8217;ve been photographing over the past month or so. \u00a0Stay tuned for those.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for looking!<br \/>\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, it&#8217;s been a while since the last post. \u00a0Busy time of year, between work and family, and Christmas and New Years it&#8217;s just been constant running around. \u00a0But I did manage to kick off the New Year, photographically speaking, early this morning down by the Lebanon Green in frigid cold. \u00a0The\u00a0Quadrantid meteor shower was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,31],"tags":[521,14,522,111,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-2856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-astrophotogrpahy","7":"category-night-photography","8":"tag-astrophotography","9":"tag-connecticut","10":"tag-meteor","11":"tag-night","12":"tag-quadrantid","13":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}