{"id":1597,"date":"2011-03-27T09:01:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T14:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2011-03-27T12:09:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T17:09:30","slug":"earth-hour-march-26th-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/earth-hour-march-26th-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Hour March 26th 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Hour ran from 20:30 to 21:30 EDT saturday night and we participated by turning off all lights and a lot of other electrical equipment around the house.  We spent the time outside in the -5 to -10 degree temps observing the stars and imaging the Kingston Light Pollution Dome.<\/p>\n<p>At approx 20:30, 21:00 and 21:30 we imaged the Kingston light dome in our southeast with our Canon Powershot A540 digital camera on a tripod, with 15 and 64 second exposures.  The idea was to see if we could identify any lighting changing due to Earth Hour.<\/p>\n<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td>Time (EDT)<\/p>\n<td>15 second<\/p>\n<td>64 second<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>approx 20:30 <\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110326-12-kingstondome15secearthhour2034edt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110326-12-kingstondome15secearthhour2034edt.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110326-12-kingstondome15secearthhour2034edt\" width=\"200\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1598\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110326-17-kingstondome64sec.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110326-17-kingstondome64sec.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110326-17-kingstondome64sec\" width=\"200\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1599\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>approx 21:00<\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110326-25-kingstondome15secearthhour2100edt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110326-25-kingstondome15secearthhour2100edt.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110326-25-kingstondome15secearthhour2100edt\" width=\"200\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110326-24-kingstondome64secearthhour2059edt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110326-24-kingstondome64secearthhour2059edt.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110326-24-kingstondome64secearthhour2059edt\" width=\"200\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1601\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>approx 21:30<\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110326-41-kingstondome15secearthhour2136edt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110326-41-kingstondome15secearthhour2136edt.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110326-41-kingstondome15secearthhour2136edt\" width=\"200\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1605\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110326-39-kingstondome64secearthhour2133edt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110326-39-kingstondome64secearthhour2133edt.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110326-39-kingstondome64secearthhour2133edt\" width=\"200\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1606\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/table>\n<p>After a careful inspection of the images, we could find no noticeable change in the light dome due to earth hour participation in the cityof Kingston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Hour ran from 20:30 to 21:30 EDT saturday night and we participated by turning off all lights and a lot of other electrical equipment around the house. We spent the time outside in the -5 to -10 degree temps observing the stars and imaging the Kingston Light Pollution Dome. At approx 20:30, 21:00 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}