{"id":5934,"date":"2013-11-29T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/11\/29\/desert-solar-optics-phenomena\/"},"modified":"2013-11-29T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T18:43:00","slug":"desert-solar-optics-phenomena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/11\/29\/desert-solar-optics-phenomena\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Solar Optics Phenomena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/soptics.php\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript>You must enable Javascript to view this feature.<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>This three-panel slideshow contains amateur photographs of some of the things we have seen in the sky over the last few days. The first and second panels show &#8220;sun dogs&#8221;  and the last panel shows a circumhelical arc, all of which are rainbow-colored patches of refracted sunlight through ice crystals high in the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. I used my hand to block out the direct sunlight in the last panel. <\/p>\n<p>Damsel caught a <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/11\/14\/sun-dogs-and-circumhelical-arc\/\">beautiful photo of the sun and optics<\/a> about a year ago. Click on the images to advance the slideshow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You must enable Javascript to view this feature. This three-panel slideshow contains amateur photographs of some of the things we have seen in the sky over&#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":[70,32,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-astronomy","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934","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=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}