{"id":1478,"date":"2016-02-03T14:02:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T23:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2016-02-03T14:02:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T23:02:24","slug":"feb-2-groundhog-day-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"Feb 2: Groundhog Day Aurora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night there was a G1 with minor geomagnetic storming that started really early in the evening and was even seen at dusk around 6:30, so I waited and watched the aurora cam provided by R&amp;M Photography (Ronn &amp; Marketa Murray) until it looked like it was high enough in the sky and bright enough for it to be visible over my yard and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when got a few photos. Nothing spectacular, but it was nice to see the lights even with all the light pollution surrounding me.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been busy with a work-related project and then when I was free I have not really felt much like heading out to chase so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve missed a couple of good aurora nights lately. I have been enjoying photos from my fellow chasers and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been prepping for more effective chasing; I bought a battery grip and a camera cover to help with camera coldness after the last time froze my batteries so badly, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just not feeling that urge to go out and that&#8217;s okay for me right now.<\/p>\n<p>These photos were edited with Lightroom for temp, tint, exposure and contrast since the originals made it look like daytime.\u00c2\u00a0 Someday I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll figure out the right settings, someday\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.<\/p>\n<p>Sony a6000 with Rokinon 12mm<br \/>\nAperture priority, ISO 800<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1503 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC7080.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC7080\" width=\"800\" height=\"670\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1504 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC7081.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC7081\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1505 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC7082.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC7082\" width=\"800\" height=\"421\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1506 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC7083.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC7083\" width=\"800\" height=\"673\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night there was a G1 with minor geomagnetic storming that started really early in the evening and was even seen at dusk around 6:30, so I waited and watched the aurora cam provided by R&amp;M Photography (Ronn &amp; Marketa &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=1478\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,7,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}