{"id":140,"date":"2020-06-17T20:46:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T20:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2020-09-17T15:57:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T15:57:36","slug":"stormsurfing-and-seeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/17\/stormsurfing-and-seeing\/","title":{"rendered":"StormSurfing, Jet Streams, and Seeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stormsurfing.com\/cgi\/display_alt.cgi?a=nam_250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stormsurfing.com\/stormuser2\/images\/dods\/nam_250_00hr.png?w=750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seeing is the scintillation of the sky that causes star to twinkle.\u00a0 As wonderful as twinkling stars are, bad seeing causes astrophotos to be less sharp.\u00a0 Here is a link to a webpage called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stormsurfing.com\/cgi\/display_alt.cgi?a=nam_250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">StormSurfing<\/a>.\u00a0 If you live in North America, this shows the current and future atmospheric jet streams.\u00a0 This can help predict the seeing in your area.\u00a0 The uncolored areas are least effected by the jet streams, the blue areas are lightly effected, and the other colors indicate bad seeing.\u00a0 The webpage also allows you to explore other areas of the world, and other useful weather maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing is the scintillation of the sky that causes star to twinkle.\u00a0 As wonderful as twinkling stars are, bad seeing causes astrophotos to be less . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[18,46],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophotography-capture","tag-astrophotography","tag-seeing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasstarcave.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}