{"id":2596,"date":"2012-03-15T08:27:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T12:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2012-03-15T08:32:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T12:32:10","slug":"clear-skies-before-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/clear-skies-before-the-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear skies before the storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_2603\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2603\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Capture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Capture-299x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Capture\" width=\"299\" height=\"256\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Capture-299x256.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Capture-150x128.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Capture.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thunderstorms<\/figcaption><\/figure>This morning a series of thunderstorms started rolling through the area, starting around 03:30 or so.  We had many close by lightning strikes and at least  two power outages.  One was accompanied by a loud noise somewhere in the house and that knocked out the network to the observatory.  Another kinda of browned out over a few seconds, went out and then slowly came back up again.  Cool.<\/p>\n<p>But this is about last night, before the storm when we still had clear skies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2598\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314-07-jupiter-venus-64sec.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314-07-jupiter-venus-64sec-299x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Resize of 20120314-07-jupiter-venus-64sec\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314-07-jupiter-venus-64sec-299x224.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314-07-jupiter-venus-64sec-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314-07-jupiter-venus-64sec-1023x767.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314-07-jupiter-venus-64sec.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hyades, Pleiades, Jupiter, Venus 64sec CanonA540<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2599\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314a-02-jupiter-venus15sec.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314a-02-jupiter-venus15sec-299x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Resize of 20120314a-02-jupiter-venus15sec\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314a-02-jupiter-venus15sec-299x224.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314a-02-jupiter-venus15sec-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314a-02-jupiter-venus15sec-1023x767.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314a-02-jupiter-venus15sec.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jupiter,Venus 15sec Canon A495<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2600\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314-09-orion64sec.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314-09-orion64sec-299x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Resize of 20120314-09-orion64sec\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314-09-orion64sec-299x224.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314-09-orion64sec-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314-09-orion64sec-1023x767.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Resize-of-20120314-09-orion64sec.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sirius, Orion 64sec CanonA540<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning a series of thunderstorms started rolling through the area, starting around 03:30 or so. We had many close by lightning strikes and at least two power outages. One was accompanied by a loud noise somewhere in the house and that knocked out the network to the observatory. Another kinda of browned out over [&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-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","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=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}