{"id":24487,"date":"2021-09-21T04:56:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T04:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24487"},"modified":"2021-09-21T04:56:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T04:56:41","slug":"sun-spot-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24487","title":{"rendered":"Sun Spot Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2109\/SunSpotHill_Coy_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Is this giant orange ball about to roll down that tree-lined hill? No, because the giant orange ball is actually the Sun. Our Solar System&#8217;s central star was captured rising beyond a hill on Earth twelve days ago complete with a delightfully detailed foreground. The Sun&#8217;s disk showed five sunspots, quite a lot considering that during the solar minimum in solar activity of the past few years, most days showed no spots. A close look at the hill &#8212; Sierra del Cid in Perter, Spain &#8212; reveals not only silhouetted pine trees, but silhouetted people &#8212; by coincidence three brothers of the photographer. The trees and brothers were about 3.5-kilometers away during the morning of the well-planned, single-exposure image. A dark filter muted the usually brilliant Sun and brought up great detail on the lower sunspots. Within a few minutes, the Sun rose far above the hill, while within a week, the sunspots rotated around the Sun, out of view. The captured scene, however, is now frozen in time for all to enjoy. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap210921.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this giant orange ball about to roll down that tree-lined hill? No, because the giant orange ball is actually the Sun. Our Solar System&#8217;s central star was captured rising <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24487\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-24487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24488,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24487\/revisions\/24488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}