{"id":5475,"date":"2013-01-15T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T01:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/solar-flare\/"},"modified":"2013-01-15T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T01:34:09","slug":"solar-flare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/solar-flare\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Flare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vtnof33Xu4A?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I watched this short video of a solar flare captured by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/sdo\/main\/index.html\">SDO<\/a> on New Year&#8217;s Eve. The video was on today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap130115.html\">APOD<\/a>. They compared the prominence to a ballet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Of particular interest is the tangled magnetic field that directs a type of solar ballet for the hot plasma as it falls back to the Sun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The sun is approaching solar maximum sometime soon. In some circles, scientists believe we may already have passed the maximum which will prove to be a disappointment to <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/category\/greenbats\/\">greenbats<\/a>. It will also disappoint some Ham radio operators who delight in ionospheric radio propagation which is enhanced by solar activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched this short video of a solar flare captured by SDO on New Year&#8217;s Eve. The video was on today&#8217;s APOD. They compared the prominence&#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":[2,32,10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-astronomy","category-environment","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475","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=5475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}