{"id":11661,"date":"2018-01-10T21:44:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T05:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=11661"},"modified":"2018-01-10T21:48:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T05:48:28","slug":"my-friend-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2018\/01\/10\/my-friend-aurora\/","title":{"rendered":"My Friend Aurora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve started on phase two of this trip, moving from our temporary home in downtown Fairbanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/auroracabin.com\/\">Aurora Borealis Lodge<\/a> on a ridge twenty miles outside of the city.  Without any city lights the aurora is visible across the northern sky, and we&#8217;ve had two straight clear nights where the displays were epic.  Tonight there are clouds covering the sky, but the forecast calls for some clearing around 1AM, so it may be a late-night wake-up to catch the evening show.<\/p>\n<p>The logistics of photographing this natural wonder are still a challenge to me &#8211; between keeping the camera steady for long periods, focusing in the pitch black, and not freezing to death it has been interesting.  At one point last night I was heading back outside after coming in to warm up and noticed that everything looked blurry in my viewfinder &#8211; turned out there was a layer of ice covering my lens, and I had to wait a bit to let the camera thaw; that was a first in the three decades since my dad gave me my first 35mm.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2018-01-A\/0110-fairbanks-aurora-borealis.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" alt=\"Aurora Borealis, taken north of Fairbanks\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">Last night&#8217;s northern lights display, taken just before midnight.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve started on phase two of this trip, moving from our temporary home in downtown Fairbanks to the Aurora Borealis Lodge on a ridge twenty miles outside of the city. Without any city lights the aurora is visible across the northern sky, and we&#8217;ve had two straight clear nights where the displays were epic. Tonight &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2018\/01\/10\/my-friend-aurora\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Friend Aurora&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[69,30],"class_list":["post-11661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-northern-lights-2018","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11661"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11669,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661\/revisions\/11669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}