{"id":7204,"date":"2011-11-19T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=7204"},"modified":"2012-12-28T12:38:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T22:38:25","slug":"postcard-from-the-universe-sunspots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=7204","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Universe &#8211; Sunspots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_cycle\" target=\"_blank\">solar maximum<\/a>, large sunspot groups have again become a common sight.  The last few years have seen an unusually quiet <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/space\/dormant-sun-earth-secrets.html\" target=\"_blank\">solar minimum<\/a>, long stretches of time when not a single sunspot appeared.  that has certainly changed, the Sun is now dotted with sunspots, with the occasional monster.  At it&#8217;s peak, AR1339, seen above, was over 100,000km across.  That is larger than 15 Earths, side by side.  I mean monster!<\/p>\n<p>The photo was taken with the Canon 60D, a 0.8x TeleVue adaptor, a C-11 and a Thousand Oaks full aperture solar filter.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7205\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7205\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/CE27-55-11309-DC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/CE27-55-11309-DC-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Sunspots\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/CE27-55-11309-DC-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/CE27-55-11309-DC.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunspot group AR1339 as seen on the afternoon of 5Nov2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach solar maximum, large sunspot groups have again become a common sight. The last few years have seen an unusually quiet solar minimum, long stretches of time when not a single sunspot appeared. that has certainly changed, the Sun is now dotted with sunspots, with the occasional monster. At it&#8217;s peak, AR1339, seen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=7204\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Universe &#8211; Sunspots&#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":[34],"tags":[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\/7204"}],"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=7204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}