{"id":367,"date":"2008-05-29T07:20:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T07:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/?p=367"},"modified":"2008-09-25T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T10:02:15","slug":"aurora-captured-in-time-lapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"Aurora captured in time-lapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To Download right click &gt; save as =&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/vid\/aurora.flv\">Aurora<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night (well, to be fair, in the early hours of this morning) I spotted a pale auroral band over the southern horizon, and decided to put into practice the experiments I&#8217;ve been conducting with my camera.  I set up a time-lapse exposure of the southern sky, and left it running for more than two hours, until the battery died in the cold.  Fortunately, around 0200 there was a significant event and a beautiful aurora.  While the pictures can&#8217;t capture the intensity and life of an aurora in its full glory, the video gives a taste of what it is like.<\/p>\n<p>[MEDIA=1]<\/p>\n<p>For interests sake &#8211; the video consists of hundreds of 30 second photographic exposures played at 8 frames per second, so you are seeing time pass at a rate of 4 minutes\/second, or 240x acceleration.  I&#8217;ve included an example of the still images below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/maxaurora.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-368\" title=\"Aurora 2008_0529 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/maxaurora.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/maxaurora.jpg 800w, https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/maxaurora-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Download right click &gt; save as =&gt; Aurora Last night (well, to be fair, in the early hours of this morning) I spotted a pale auroral band over the southern horizon, and decided to put into practice the experiments I&#8217;ve been conducting with my camera. I set up a time-lapse exposure of the southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctic-science","category-antarctica","category-aurora-australis","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}