{"id":2352,"date":"2012-10-09T20:01:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T19:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2012-10-09T20:01:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T19:01:40","slug":"stars-planets-and-a-bit-of-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/stars-planets-and-a-bit-of-aurora\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars, Planets, and a bit of Aurora"},"content":{"rendered":"

I set off to work a few minutes early this morning so I could take a couple of photographs. I’d been reading reports of the aurora borealis when I woke and decided to try and spot some (I’d have stayed up to watch it during the night but I need my beauty sleep before a long day at work ;-)). The aurora wasn’t really visible to the naked eye when I got to the car park, though every now and then I caught a glimpse. Venus however looked really bright above the Pennines.<\/p>\n

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I took a few photographs looking North and East before turning to photograph Jupiter above Orion.<\/p>\n

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When I looked at the photographs a while later on the camera’s LCD screen I noticed a bit of glow on some of the photographs, which became much more noticeable when I put them on the computer at home, I had captured a bit of aurora after all \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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I set off to work a few minutes early this morning so I could take a couple of photographs. I’d been reading reports of the aurora borealis when I woke and decided to try and spot some (I’d have stayed up to watch it during the night but I need my beauty sleep before a long day at work ;-)). The aurora wasn’t really visible to the naked eye when I got to the car park, though every now and then I caught a glimpse. Venus however looked really bright…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[228,293,125,190,63,60,233],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-photography","tag-astronomy-2","tag-aurora","tag-cumbria","tag-jupiter","tag-m45","tag-orion","tag-venus"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}