{"id":437,"date":"2017-12-12T10:27:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T15:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=437"},"modified":"2017-12-12T10:27:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T15:27:12","slug":"geminid-meteor-shower-visible-wednesday-night-if-you-can-find-dark-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Geminid Meteor Shower Visible Wednesday Night If You Can Find Dark Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last meteor shower of autumn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/space\/go-for-launch\/fl-reg-geminids-meteor-shower-20171211-story.html\">the Geminids<\/a>, will be visible Wednesday night in the northeastern sky.\n<\/p>\n<p>All you have to do is to find a place with a relatively dark sky unaffected by urban light pollution and you should have a good view.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boktowergardens.org\/christmas\/\">Bok Tower Gardens<\/a> will be hosting a viewing event Wednesday along with a carillon concert,\n<\/p>\n<p>Local astronomers will be on hand for a program at 6 p.m. and be around with telescopes as the skies darken  to offer views of the more distant objects.\n<\/p>\n<p>The meteor shower will be visible to the naked eye in the northeast sky.\n<\/p>\n<p>There also will be an astronomy program Saturday at 7 p.m. at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridastateparks.org\/park\/Colt-Creek\">Colt Creek State Park<\/a> on SR  471 north of Lakeland.\n<\/p>\n<p>The meteor shower will be over by then, but there should be plenty of other objects to see in the sky.\n<\/p>\n<p>Admission is charged to Bok Tower and Colt Creek, but the programs will be offered at no additional cost.\n<\/p>\n<p>Colt Creek State Park has relatively dark sky.\n<\/p>\n<p>The one designated dark sky park in this part of Florida is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridastateparks.org\/park\/Kissimmee-Prairie\">Kissimmee Prairie State Preserve<\/a> in Okeechobee County across the Kissimmee River from the Avon Park Air Force Range.\n<\/p>\n<p>     \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last meteor shower of autumn, the Geminids, will be visible Wednesday night in the northeastern sky. All you have to do is to find a place with a relatively dark sky unaffected by urban light pollution and you should have a good view. Bok Tower Gardens will be hosting a viewing event Wednesday along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}