{"id":2246,"date":"2010-04-06T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/04\/06\/geo-magnetic-storm-aurora-as-seen-from-orbit\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:57:14","slug":"geo-magnetic-storm-aurora-as-seen-from-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/04\/06\/geo-magnetic-storm-aurora-as-seen-from-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Geo-Magnetic Storm! Aurora as seen from orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/83042854.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/83042854.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456886801213524658\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Batten down the hatches my friends. The solar wind is blowing, and we&#8217;re in a geo-magnetic storm. Well, we were anyway, yesterday. Astronaut Soichi took this amazing picture of the resulting aurora.<br \/> No WSPR spots of my little signal this morning &#8212; I blame it on the storm.<br \/> You can see some interesting discussion of the storm conditions on the WSPR live-chat system. Here is a sample of last night&#8217;s commentary:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screenshot-8.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 412px; height: 365px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screenshot-8.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456889282618856946\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batten down the hatches my friends. The solar wind is blowing, and we&#8217;re in a geo-magnetic storm. Well, we were anyway, yesterday. Astronaut Soichi took this amazing picture of the resulting aurora. No WSPR spots of my little signal this morning &#8212; I blame it on the storm. You can see some interesting discussion of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/04\/06\/geo-magnetic-storm-aurora-as-seen-from-orbit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Geo-Magnetic Storm! Aurora as seen from orbit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,32,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-propagation","category-space-program","category-wspr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}