{"id":5107,"date":"2012-07-08T17:07:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T00:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/08\/solar-activity\/"},"modified":"2012-07-11T17:46:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T00:46:38","slug":"solar-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/08\/solar-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/sunspots.jpg' title='sunspots.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/sunspots.jpg' alt='sunspots.jpg' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New sunspot 1520 has rotated into view and is producing C class solar flares according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/archive.php?view=1&#038;day=08&#038;month=07&#038;year=2012\">SpaceWeather.com<\/a>. They also expect M class and possibly X class flares as the sunspot rotates toward the mid-solar southern latitudes. <\/p>\n<p>I took this image this morning from Wickenburg, Arizona using my <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/03\/31\/preparing-to-photograph-the-eclipse\/\">Canon SX40<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowsymphonystore.com\/solar-filters.html\">Rainbow Symphony solar filter<\/a>. I annotated the sunspot numbers with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irfanview.com\/\">Irfanview<\/a> graphic editor. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>Update: 07\/11\/2012 The group is now closer to <a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/spotz.jpg' title='facing Earthward'>facing Earthward<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New sunspot 1520 has rotated into view and is producing C class solar flares according to SpaceWeather.com. They also expect M class and possibly X class&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-environment","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}