{"id":2477,"date":"2012-02-20T10:17:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T15:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2012-02-21T08:20:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T13:20:03","slug":"sun-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/sun-column\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120218a-08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120218a-08-265x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20120218a-08\" width=\"265\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120218a-08-265x299.jpg 265w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120218a-08-133x150.jpg 133w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120218a-08.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday was a good day .. not only did we get to see a nice aurora, we also came across this sun column near sunset on 2012 feb 18th.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These phenomena associated with the sun are not particularly rare, but they are quite difficult to capture on film as they are not normally very prominent. There are usually caused by sunlight being refracted up into the atmosphere by layers of small ice particles just before or just after sunset. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday was a good day .. not only did we get to see a nice aurora, we also came across this sun column near sunset on 2012 feb 18th. &#8220;These phenomena associated with the sun are not particularly rare, but they are quite difficult to capture on film as they are not normally very prominent. [&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-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","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=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}