{"id":3489,"date":"2024-10-10T21:28:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T01:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2024-10-10T21:29:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T01:29:30","slug":"aurora-borealis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3489","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Borealis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Megh and I enjoyed a collective life goal tonight: seeing the Aurora Borealis with our own eyes.\u00a0 I’ve wanted to see this for nearly my entire life, ever since I saw the movie Antarctica<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The sun is at a peak of the current solar cycle<\/a>. A CME<\/a> was detected the other day, and it’s arrival tonight was predicted by the Space Weather Prediction Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Megh, Beta, and I found a dark spot near Rockport<\/a>, arrived as dusk approached, and waited for the fireworks. Nature did not disappoint.<\/p>\n

It started before the sky was completely dark, and initially appeared to be a whitish haze across the northern part of the sky. We started to despair that high clouds were going to interfere, until we realized… the show had actually started.<\/p>\n

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I really like this one because the Big Dipper constellation is visible behind the aurora.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The camera’s “night sight” mode not only brought out the colors, but also enabled us to see the reflection off the water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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You can really see the classic undulations and spires<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The colors were so strong in this shot, the camera didn’t really add much to this photo. I really enjoy the strong break between color and night sky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The aurora climbed the northern sky until it was overhead, which is when I caught this photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These photos are color-accurate, but a little brighter than what we actually saw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Megh and I enjoyed a collective life goal tonight: seeing the Aurora Borealis with our own eyes.\u00a0 I’ve wanted to see this for nearly my entire life, ever since I saw the movie Antarctica. The sun is at a peak of the current solar cycle. A CME was detected the other day, and it’s arrival … Continue reading “Aurora Borealis”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[903,165,429,519,520,509,751,904],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-aurora-borealis","tag-beta","tag-meghan","tag-nature-is-beautiful","tag-nature-is-lit","tag-photos-by-dad","tag-quinn","tag-rockport"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-Uh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3491,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/3491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}