{"id":107,"date":"2003-10-31T02:09:05","date_gmt":"2003-10-31T07:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/10\/aurora_watch\/"},"modified":"2003-10-31T02:09:05","modified_gmt":"2003-10-31T07:09:05","slug":"aurora_watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/aurora_watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second solar storm <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=570&#038;ncid=753&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/nm\/20031030\/sc_nm\/space_flare_dc\">hit earth Thursday<\/a>.  One effect of these flares is an increased level of geomagnetic activity, which produces the northern lights.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m probably a night or two late to be doing this, but I just made a trek to the Resonance space observatory (the front yard) and looked for northern lights.  No sign of any, though with all the surrounding city lights I might not have seen them anyway.<br \/>\nDid anyone in Volunteer land happen to see any northern lights this week?<br \/>\nFor what it&#8217;s worth, I gather that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.noaa.gov\/pmap\/index.html\">this NOAA site<\/a> provides data indicating where viewers are likely to see the aurora.  But if you&#8217;re like me, you may find the information a bit confusing at first glance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/aurora_watch\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Aurora Watch\"><p>A second solar storm hit earth Thursday. One effect of these flares is an increased level of geomagnetic activity, which produces the northern lights. I&#8217;m probably a night or two late to be doing this, but I just made a trek to the Resonance space observatory (the front yard) and looked for northern lights. No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}