{"id":3996,"date":"2012-03-19T18:48:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T01:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/19\/solar-imaging-experiments\/"},"modified":"2012-03-19T18:54:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T01:54:43","slug":"solar-imaging-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/19\/solar-imaging-experiments\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Imaging Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sol.jpg' title='sol.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sol.jpg' alt='sol.jpg' width='320' class='right' \/><\/a>Verna and I are planning an excursion to Northern Arizona in late May to observe the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/03\/03\/2012-annular-eclipse-trip-update\/\">Annular Solar Eclipse<\/a> on May 20, 2012. We already have reservations to stay in Page, AZ, which is along the centerline of the <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov\/SEgoogle\/SEgoogle2001\/SE2012May20Agoogle.html\">eclipse path<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: The solar disk taken today with my Canon SX110IS camera. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I bought several pairs of cardboard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowsymphonystore.com\/annular-eclipse-glasses-2012.html\">eclipse shades<\/a> for us to be able to safely watch the event. Today, I taped one of the shades to my little camera and took a couple of photos of the solar disk. I took this image while  holding the camera in my hands. I expect that image quality will improve by using a tripod. I will be experimenting with both cameras over the next few weeks to ensure that we get some good images when the time comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verna and I are planning an excursion to Northern Arizona in late May to observe the Annular Solar Eclipse on May 20, 2012. We already have&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-stuff","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}