{"id":39918,"date":"2011-10-02T15:49:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T15:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stunning-finnish-aurora-time-lapse-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-10-02T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T15:49:12","slug":"stunning-finnish-aurora-time-lapse-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/stunning-finnish-aurora-time-lapse-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Stunning Finnish aurora time lapse | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/89299\/timelapse-aurora-borealis-in-finnish-lapland\/\">Universe Today<\/a> (and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/110701307803962595019\/posts\/hypHxB2SEUq\">Fraser Cain&rsquo;s Google+ stream<\/a>) I saw <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/29568236\">this astonishing video<\/a> of the aurora borealis as seen from Finnish Lapland.<\/p><p>[Make sure you set it to HD and make it full screen.]<\/p><p>Wow! That&rsquo;s amazing. Did you catch the Andromeda Galaxy making an appearance at 1:25 in, at the middle left of the screen? Maybe you missed it because of THE GINORMOUSLY BRIGHT AND GORGEOUS AURORAE.<\/p><p>Maybe. <\/p><p>As a travel ad, this works pretty well (it was made by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/flatlightfilms\">Flatlight Films<\/a>, a Finnish company). Living in Boulder, I&rsquo;m used to the cold, but we always seem to <em>just<\/em> miss being far enough north to see the light show. And we still have a couple of years before we even reach the peak of solar activity, so there&rsquo;ll be plenty of chances to catch more.<\/p><p>[P.S. If you're on G+, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/110701307803962595019\/posts\">follow Fraser<\/a>. He's good people.]<\/p><hr width=\"30%\" align=\"left\"><em><p>Related posts:<\/p><p>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/07\/18\/southern-lights-greet-iss-and-atlantis\/\">Southern lights greet ISS and Atlantis<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/08\/29\/wyoming-skies\/\">Wyoming skies<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/08\/23\/another-jaw-dropping-time-lapse-video-tempest\/\">Another jaw-dropping time lapse video: Tempest<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/07\/23\/time-lapse-journey-through-canyons\/\">Time lapse: Journey Through Canyons<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/07\/05\/down-under-milky-way-time-lapse\/\">Down under Milky Way time lapse<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/06\/23\/alps-lapse\/\">Alps lapse<\/a><\/p><p><\/p><\/em><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9uKNxM4uP7WG0CEOXS57T_UqOGQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b7d15_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9uKNxM4uP7WG0CEOXS57T_UqOGQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b7d15_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b7d15_kUfOwGM-t6A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b7d15_yuY8Pfn5Ahg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Universe Today (and Fraser Cain&rsquo;s Google+ stream) I saw this astonishing video of the aurora borealis as seen from Finnish Lapland.[Make sure you set it to HD and make it full screen.]Wow! That&rsquo;s amazing. Did you catch the Andromeda &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/stunning-finnish-aurora-time-lapse-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}