{"id":8543,"date":"2014-08-10T12:37:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T16:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8543"},"modified":"2014-08-10T12:37:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T16:37:35","slug":"seeing-and-listening-to-perseid-meteors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8543","title":{"rendered":"Seeing and listening to Perseid meteors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/astronomy\/meteor-shower\/perseid.html\" target=\"_d\">2014 Perseid meteor shower<\/a>\u00a0will be peaking between today and Wednesday. Here is some advice on observing them:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/26760-perseid-meteor-shower-2014-observing-guide.html\" target=\"_d\">Perseid Meteor Shower: How to See August&#8217;s &#8216;Shooting Stars&#8217; &#8211; Space.com&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imo.net\/\" target=\"_d\">International Meteor Organization<\/a>\u00a0offers citizen scientists a way to\u00a0participate in monitoring the event :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imo.net\/live\/perseids2014\/\" target=\"_d\">Perseids 2014: visual data quicklook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also listen to meteors\u00a0via the radio signals they generate : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/blogs\/08\/08\/2014\/build-your-own-radio-telescope-to-listen-to-meteors.html?series=33\" target=\"_d\">Build Your Own Radio Telescope to Listen to Meteors &#8211; Science Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a project on building your own radio telescope:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gb.nrao.edu\/epo\/ibt.shtml\" target=\"_d\">Itty Bitty Telescope &#8211; NRAO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.setileague.org\/articles\/lbt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Little Bitty Telescope Version 2 and\u00a0\u00a0LBT Experiment No. 1 &#8211; SETI League (pdf)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find more amateur radio astronomy resources in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyspace.com\/radio2.html#RadioAst\">HobbySpace Space Radio section<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a02014 Perseid meteor shower\u00a0will be peaking between today and Wednesday. Here is some advice on observing them:\u00a0Perseid Meteor Shower: How to See August&#8217;s &#8216;Shooting Stars&#8217; &#8211; Space.com&#8217;. The International Meteor Organization\u00a0offers citizen scientists a way to\u00a0participate in monitoring the event :\u00a0Perseids 2014: visual data quicklook. You can also listen to meteors\u00a0via the radio signals they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8543\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seeing and listening to Perseid meteors<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,89,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-meteors","category-space-radio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2dN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12974,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12974","url_meta":{"origin":8543,"position":0},"title":"Perseid meteor shower peak approaching","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The annual Perseid meteor showers are underway. 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