{"id":8438,"date":"2012-07-15T17:05:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T23:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=8438"},"modified":"2012-07-15T17:05:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T23:05:19","slug":"thornton-resident-captures-images-of-the-northern-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/thornton-resident-captures-images-of-the-northern-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Thornton resident captures images of the northern lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/geomagnetic-storm-hits-the-earth-following-large-solar-flare\/\">large solar flare on Thursday<\/a> was expected to lead to heightened aurora activity this weekend but not as far south as Colorado.\u00a0 One Thornton resident however appears to have captured images of the northern lights Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The images by Justin Whitesel show a purple sky over the city as the geomagnetic storm hits the Earth. \u00a0You can view an animation Whitesel put together <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/fqRqd.gif\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aurora forecasts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/helios.swpc.noaa.gov\/ovation\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\">NOAA OVATION Auroral Forecast<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/pmap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\">Auroral Activity Extrapolated from NOAA POES<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/wxspace.php\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\">ThorntonWeather.com Space Weather page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/space-weather-101-solar-flares-and-coronal-mass-ejections\/\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\">Space Weather 101: Solar flares and coronal mass ejections<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-gdTfggpKBPM\/UANKbsIAKPI\/AAAAAAAAGpM\/uK2wxqCxu7c\/s800\/2012-07-15_165534.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Thornton resident Justin Whitesel captured an image of what appears to be the aurora. (Justin Whitesel \/ imgur)\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-gdTfggpKBPM\/UANKbsIAKPI\/AAAAAAAAGpM\/uK2wxqCxu7c\/s560\/2012-07-15_165534.jpg\" alt=\"Thornton resident Justin Whitesel captured an image of what appears to be the aurora. (Justin Whitesel \/ imgur)\" width=\"560\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thornton resident Justin Whitesel captured an image of what appears to be the aurora. (Justin Whitesel \/ imgur)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large solar flare on Thursday was expected to lead to heightened aurora activity this weekend but not as far south as Colorado.\u00a0 One Thornton resident however appears to have captured images of the northern lights Sunday morning. The images by Justin Whitesel show a purple sky over the city as the geomagnetic storm hits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/thornton-resident-captures-images-of-the-northern-lights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thornton resident captures images of the northern lights<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[274,586,587,426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8439,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438\/revisions\/8439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}