{"id":3186,"date":"2012-03-08T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2012-03-08T20:04:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T06:04:51","slug":"geomagnetic-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3186","title":{"rendered":"Geomagnetic Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CME from <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3179\">yesterday&#8217;s solar flare<\/a> struck at about 01:00HST, not as strongly as predicted.  Right now there is a geomagnetic storm going on, but only at a moderate intensity, Kp=5.  It takes something with a Kp>10 before aurora become a likelihood at low latitudes.  Expect some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/\">nice photos<\/a> from the folks up north as they get to enjoy the show.<\/p>\n<p>The sunspot responsible for the flare, AR1429, is still there, pointed directly at our Earth.  It harbors the energy for more X class flares, stay tuned!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3187\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=3187\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3187\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/SDO201203082004-304-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"Sun at 304nm\" title=\"Sun at 304nm\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/SDO201203082004-304-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/SDO201203082004-304-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/SDO201203082004-304-900x900.jpg 900w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/SDO201203082004-304.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sun at 30.4nm (extreme ultraviolet) on 8Mar2012 showing the large sunspot group AR1429 (upper center), image credit NASA\/SDO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CME from yesterday&#8217;s solar flare struck at about 01:00HST, not as strongly as predicted. Right now there is a geomagnetic storm going on, but only at a moderate intensity, Kp=5. It takes something with a Kp>10 before aurora become a likelihood at low latitudes. Expect some nice photos from the folks up north as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3186\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Geomagnetic Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[302],"tags":[304,305,307,75,308],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}