{"id":5493,"date":"2015-03-11T19:44:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T02:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/11\/sunspot-2297\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T19:44:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T02:44:51","slug":"sunspot-2297","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/11\/sunspot-2297\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunspot 2297"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150310-ar2297.jpg' title='Sunspot 2297'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150310-ar2297.jpg' alt='Sunspot 2297' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I read that a large sunspot was transiting the solar globe, so I went out to the courtyard and shot a few images of the sun with the Canon SL1 and my cheapie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowsymphonystore.com\/solar-filters.html\">Rainbow Symphony Solar Filter<\/a>. While I can&#8217;t match the resolution of fancier equipment or space-borne solar observation platforms, I did manage to resolve the spot well enough to perceive the shadowy smaller parts of the group.<\/p>\n<p>The camera settings were as follows: F8.0, focal length 300mm, 1\/2500 sec., ISO 6400, Manual Program. Photo taken 2015-03-10 09:27:42 MST. The image has been derotated to an angle where ecliptic north is approximately up. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read that a large sunspot was transiting the solar globe, so I went out to the courtyard and shot a few images of the sun&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-stuff","category-photography","category-something-shiny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}