{"id":2621,"date":"2004-10-28T14:18:05","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T14:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2009-10-19T02:24:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T08:24:55","slug":"lookup-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2004\/10\/lookup-in-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Look&#8230;Up in the Sky!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flipped through  <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/calendar\/allyears.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Astronomy Picture of the Day<\/a>&#8216;s month of October.  Two wicked awesome pictures were found:<\/p>\n<p><b>Moon Lightning<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap041007.html\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/10\/moonlightning-505x212.jpg\" alt=\"moonlightning\" title=\"moonlightning\" width=\"505\" height=\"212\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/10\/moonlightning-505x212.jpg 505w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/10\/moonlightning.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap041007.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Moonsets are not often quite as exciting as this one. But amateur astronomer Marc-Andre Besel was impressed by the brilliant lighting displays that joined the first quarter Moon and stars of the constellation Scorpius in western skies<\/a>. On August 22, 2004, his view looked across the Gulf of Mexico from Anna Maria Island, Florida, USA, a region that would experience even more stormy weather in the coming days<\/p>\n<p><b>Contrails<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap041013.html\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/10\/contrails_nasa-505x274.jpg\" alt=\"contrails_nasa\" title=\"contrails_nasa\" width=\"505\" height=\"274\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/10\/contrails_nasa-505x274.jpg 505w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/10\/contrails_nasa.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap041013.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Artificial clouds made by humans may become so common they change the Earth&#8217;s climate.<\/a> The long thin cloud streaks that dominate the above satellite photograph of Georgia are contrails, cirrus clouds created by airplanes. The exhaust of an airplane engine can create a contrail by saturating the surrounding air with extra moisture.<\/p>\n<p>Click the pics for more info on each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flipped through Astronomy Picture of the Day&#8216;s month of October. Two wicked awesome pictures were found: Moon Lightning Moonsets are not often quite as exciting as this one. But amateur astronomer Marc-Andre Besel was impressed by the brilliant lighting displays that joined the first quarter Moon and stars of the constellation Scorpius in western skies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[1654,1653,1655,431,208,1656,1637],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-apod","tag-astronomy-picture-of-the-day","tag-contrails","tag-lightning","tag-moon","tag-moon-lightning","tag-our-strange-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}