{"id":6936,"date":"2016-04-16T16:28:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T23:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/04\/16\/last-great-sunspot-for-a-while\/"},"modified":"2016-04-16T16:28:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T23:28:35","slug":"last-great-sunspot-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/04\/16\/last-great-sunspot-for-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Great Sunspot for a While?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160416-ar2529.jpg' title='AR 2529'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160416-ar2529.jpg' alt='AR 2529' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to several on line resources, we are probably headed toward the minimum end of the current eleven-year solar activity cycle. Giant sunspot AR 2529 looming toward the right limb of the sun may be the last large spot for a while as solar activity diminishes.<\/p>\n<p>I took my Canon EOS Rebel SL1 out to the courtyard equipped with the 75-300 mm telephoto lens and an inexpensive solar filter to capture this image of AR 2529 before it fades as it circles out of view. Camera settings: 1\/3200 sec., F5.6, ISO 6400, 300 mm focal length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to several on line resources, we are probably headed toward the minimum end of the current eleven-year solar activity cycle. Giant sunspot AR 2529 looming&#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":[32,17,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-photography","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936","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=6936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}