{"id":5372,"date":"2012-11-14T17:54:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T00:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/11\/14\/sun-dogs-and-circumhelical-arc\/"},"modified":"2012-11-15T14:38:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T21:38:07","slug":"sun-dogs-and-circumhelical-arc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/11\/14\/sun-dogs-and-circumhelical-arc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Dogs and Circumhelical Arc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sun-dogs-and-helical-arc.jpg' title='Sun Dogs and Circumhelical Arc'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sun-dogs-and-helical-arc.jpg' alt='Sun Dogs and Circumhelical Arc' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Damsel captured this image of some pretty spectacular atmospheric optical effects this afternoon. There are two pronounced sun dogs left and right of the solar disc, a fainter one above and traces of a circumhelical arc connecting the dogs. The cirrus clouds, consisting of minute ice crystals acting as prisms, were refracting the sunlight into the colorful display. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>It was a beautiful day here, temperature in mid 70&#8217;s and this stunning visual display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damsel captured this image of some pretty spectacular atmospheric optical effects this afternoon. There are two pronounced sun dogs left and right of the solar disc,&#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":[70,17,19,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-photography","category-retirement","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372","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=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}