{"id":490,"date":"2008-09-04T15:48:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T15:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/?p=490"},"modified":"2008-09-04T15:57:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T15:57:52","slug":"spectacular-spectacular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular spectacular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.za.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/20080904_6615-bands.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-491\" title=\"Bands of Aurora over SANAE IV\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.za.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/20080904_6615-bands.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/20080904_6615-bands.jpg 800w, https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/20080904_6615-bands-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night granted us the gift of the most impressive aurora we have seen since our arrival in Antarctica &#8211; a slight glow half-hidden in clouds erupted within minutes to form a dazzling display that filled the sky.\u00c2\u00a0 Huge arcs of green stretched across the stars while a shifting, twisting veil hung mesmerisingly to the south.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 This lasted for around 15 minutes before fading\u00c2\u00a0 &#8211; although I was too slow to get my camera into position to capture this enourmous display, the slowly morphing remains and several distinct bands lasted for the next few hours before fading with the pre-dawn glow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.za.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/20080904_6622-sanki.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-492\" title=\"Sanki under the aurora\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.za.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/20080904_6622-sanki.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/20080904_6622-sanki.jpg 523w, https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/20080904_6622-sanki-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.za.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/20080904_6633-aurora-over-sanae-iv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-493\" title=\"Aurora australis over SANAE IV\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.za.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/20080904_6633-aurora-over-sanae-iv.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/20080904_6633-aurora-over-sanae-iv.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/20080904_6633-aurora-over-sanae-iv-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Click on the images for a larger view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night granted us the gift of the most impressive aurora we have seen since our arrival in Antarctica &#8211; a slight glow half-hidden in clouds erupted within minutes to form a dazzling display that filled the sky.\u00c2\u00a0 Huge arcs of green stretched across the stars while a shifting, twisting veil hung mesmerisingly to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17,11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctica","category-aurora-australis","category-base","category-photo-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","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=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}