{"id":20523,"date":"2024-10-11T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T09:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20523"},"modified":"2024-10-11T15:39:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T14:39:50","slug":"an-aurora-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20523","title":{"rendered":"An Aurora at Last!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wee hours of this morning, as A1 was suffering from cold, flu or covid and A2 was wakeful with worry, the aurora alert shot up to a high level (thanks to those charged particles from the CME; see below)<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot_20241011-074505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot_20241011-074505.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot_20241011-074505-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>To the naked eye there was only a hint of red high up but a photo revealed the green wavy curtains<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/auroraPXL_20241011_00342746.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/auroraPXL_20241011_00342746.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/auroraPXL_20241011_00342746-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>It was a wonderful thing to see, at least on the screen, after so many nights of staring at black skies and taking black photographs. See the stars!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wee hours of this morning, as A1 was suffering from cold, flu or covid and A2 was wakeful with worry, the aurora alert shot up to a high level (thanks to those charged particles from the CME; see below)To the naked eye there was only a hint of red high up but a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Aurora at Last!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20529,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20523\/revisions\/20529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}