{"id":3217,"date":"2004-11-08T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2021-06-06T00:21:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T04:21:09","slug":"northern-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/11\/08\/northern-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    What a birthday present! I got what I always wanted: a chance to see the Northern Lights! Earlier today I got an e-mail from Spaceweather.com<\/a> saying:
Big sunspot 696 unleashed an X-class solar flare on Sunday, Nov. 7th, and probably hurled another coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. Solar wind conditions are favorable for a geomagnetic storm now (late Nov. 7th) and may become even more so when the CME arrives. Sky watchers: be alert for auroras on Nov. 7th, 8th and 9th. The best time to look is usually around local midnight.<\/i><\/div>    At eleven:thirty, my brother Mark called up to alert me of sightings. He said they were straight overhead, but when I got outside I was seeing them faintly, low in the northeast. As I continued to stay out, the aurora grew stronger, spreading upward in a wide ribbon from the northeast across the sky to the southeast.


Aurora Borealis<\/small><\/center>
    Thank goodness my camera was fully charged, because I gave it quite a workout, leaving the shutter open fifteen seconds at a time. Maybe one of these days I’ll move my SFG Photo Gallery here (to the dot-org location), but for now I’ve uploaded the best of my photos here<\/b> [since moved to a Flickr album<\/a>].\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    What a birthday present! I got what I always wanted: a chance to see the Northern Lights! Earlier today I got an e-mail from Spaceweather.com saying: Big sunspot 696 unleashed an X-class solar flare on Sunday, Nov. 7th, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3219,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions\/3219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}