{"id":284,"date":"2012-07-17T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.derrickzuk.com\/2012\/07\/17\/aurora-borealis-timelapse\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T00:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T00:37:00","slug":"aurora-borealis-timelapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derrickzuk.com\/2012\/07\/17\/aurora-borealis-timelapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Borealis Timelapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if you all have heard, but a solar flare increased the power of the northern lights to show up farther south than usual on Saturday and Sunday this week. I was excited at the possibility of seeing them here in Wyoming, but alas: complete cloud cover on Saturday night! Sunday night wasn&#8217;t looking much more promising.<\/p>\n<p>But I decided to go with Josh and Leah to try and see them from atop a nearby butte. We didn&#8217;t see anything. I decided to let my camera go with long exposures (30 seconds) at high sensitivity (ISO 3200) anyway, in a time-lapse fashion. When I looked at my camera&#8217;s review screen I was amazed. I was actually capturing the purple and green glows from the northern lights!!! Even though our eyes couldn&#8217;t see it, my camera at high sensitivity was pulling it in! I was excited. We were up there maybe 40 minutes or so, and decided to head back. I thought I had enough photos. Well&#8230; turns out I only got 64, which turned into a 2 second time-lapse video.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really kicking myself now for two reasons:<br \/>1. I could have gone to a much better viewpoint with the Tetons.<br \/>2. I should have stayed out pretty much all night. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Oh well! Lessons learned!! Here is my short bitter-sweet video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/45871849\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see a bit of the typical light &#8220;dancing&#8221; in a couple spots if you look hard. The video should be converted to HD soon so you can see it better.<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s creation is awesome isn&#8217;t it!? I&#8217;ll definitely be on the watch for more light shows! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for stopping by!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if you all have heard, but a solar flare increased the power of the northern lights to show up farther south than usual on Saturday and Sunday this week. I was excited at the possibility of seeing them here in Wyoming, but alas: complete cloud cover on Saturday night! Sunday night wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,75,122,143,177,178,153,173],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickzuk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickzuk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickzuk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickzuk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickzuk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickzuk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickzuk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickzuk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickzuk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}