	{"id":87899,"date":"2022-12-25T04:32:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T17:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/surfcoasttimes\/?p=87899"},"modified":"2022-12-22T11:33:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T00:33:19","slug":"meteor-showers-light-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/surfcoasttimes\/news\/meteor-showers-light-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteor showers light the night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SURF Coast photographer Craig Crosthwaite spent several nights capturing images of the Geminids meteor shower that was visible over several nights last week.<\/p>\n<p>The American Meteor Society describes the display as &#8220;the most dependable&#8221; of its kind as it occurs around the same time in December each year and is visible from around much of the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t actually see all the meteors at once&#8221;, Mr Crosthwaite said of the display.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To get this one image I took 353 shots of the sky and one image for the foreground. 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