{"id":554,"date":"2024-05-11T18:07:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T17:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/?p=554"},"modified":"2024-05-11T22:39:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T21:39:02","slug":"northern-lights-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/2024\/05\/11\/northern-lights-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Lights in London!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you read that right. Last night they were visible even in the light polluted skies of London. NASA gave an alert earlier of a coronal mass ejection (CME) significant enough that northern lights were likely to be seen in places they usually don&#8217;t appear.<\/p>\n<p>My all-sky camera captured most of the light show.Here&#8217;s the time lapse video:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1520\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1520 \/ 1520;\" width=\"1520\" controls src=\"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/northern_lights_20240510_night.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>I was a little unprepared and late with my DSLR for the event but managed to capture this time lapse with it:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240510_NorthernLights_dslr-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Keogram from my all-sky camera shows that the activity peaked between 11pm and midnight:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/northen_lights-keogram_20240510_night.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/northen_lights-keogram_20240510_night.jpg 604w, https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/northen_lights-keogram_20240510_night-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you read that right. Last night they were visible even in the light polluted skies of London. NASA gave<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/2024\/05\/11\/northern-lights-in-london\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Northern Lights in London!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,29,30],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astrophotography","tag-aurora","tag-borealis","tag-northern-lights"],"modified_by":"nightowl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ironmountain.halley-arctic.ts.net\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}