{"id":2196,"date":"2011-10-28T15:13:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T19:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2011-11-01T06:27:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T10:27:15","slug":"aurora-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/aurora-3\/","title":{"rendered":"aurora!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday evening, 2011 October 24th, we experienced our first really good aurora display in many many years&#8230; maybe 7?<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111024-01_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111024-01_resize-299x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20111024-01_resize\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111024-01_resize-299x224.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111024-01_resize-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111024-01_resize.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111024-02_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111024-02_resize-299x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20111024-02_resize\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111024-02_resize-299x224.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111024-02_resize-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111024-02_resize.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/table>\n<p>The <a href=\"\/concam\/\">allsky camera<\/a> has been up for many years now but for the most part<br \/>\nit was solar minimum, not a lot of solar activity, CMEs or aurora.<br \/>\nMonday night however was quite special&#8230; the first aurora in some time,<br \/>\nbut one big and bright enough to really put on a show, and to be<br \/>\nrecorded on the allsky camera.<\/p>\n<p>You can see it here:  images are 90 seconds exposure each and the aurora<br \/>\ndance around a lot in the beginning of the nights run,<br \/>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/www.starlightcascade.ca\/concam\/gif\/today20111025.gif\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.starlightcascade.ca\/concam\/gif\/today20111025.gif<\/a><br \/>\n52 mb animated .gif<\/p>\n<p>There is also a shorter, smaller one (32mb) with a few hours of cloud in the middle removed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starlightcascade.ca\/concam\/gif\/aurora-20111024.gif\">http:\/\/www.starlightcascade.ca\/concam\/gif\/aurora-20111024.gif<\/a><br \/>\n32mb animated .gif<\/p>\n<p>The plexi dome will be washed down with some RAIN-X solution later today, in an effort to get the water drops to roll off faster and better than they do now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday evening, 2011 October 24th, we experienced our first really good aurora display in many many years&#8230; maybe 7? The allsky camera has been up for many years now but for the most part it was solar minimum, not a lot of solar activity, CMEs or aurora. Monday night however was quite special&#8230; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","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=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}