{"id":1995,"date":"2015-12-11T13:17:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astronom.cz\/horalek\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2015-12-11T13:30:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:30:42","slug":"green-flashing-postcard-from-paranal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?p=1995","title":{"rendered":"Green flashing postcard from Paranal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_1996\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015_01_26_Paranal_Green-Blue_Flashing_1900px.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1996\" src=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015_01_26_Paranal_Green-Blue_Flashing_1900px-1024x542.png\" alt=\"Green flashing postcard from Paranal\" width=\"388\" height=\"205\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015_01_26_Paranal_Green-Blue_Flashing_1900px-1024x542.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015_01_26_Paranal_Green-Blue_Flashing_1900px-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015_01_26_Paranal_Green-Blue_Flashing_1900px-520x275.png 520w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015_01_26_Paranal_Green-Blue_Flashing_1900px.png 1889w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green flashing postcard from Paranal<\/p><\/div>It&#8217;s 26th January, 2015, and the Sun was slowly setting down over the cloudy horizon over the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atacama_Desert\" target=\"_blank\">Atacama desert<\/a>. Well, not that slowly to prepare the equipment, thus I only stood in front of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso0205\/\" target=\"_blank\">La Residencia<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/teles-instr\/paranal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paranal Observatory<\/a> and from my hand tried to capture the last moments of the Sun&#8217;s good-bye that day. I just knew that something unusual could occur &#8211; a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_flash\" target=\"_blank\">green flashing<\/a> of the last Sun&#8217;s last light. But what I saw was over my expectations. The atmosphere literally cutted Sun&#8217;s upper part and everytime it happened, this part colored to bright green before it fade out. All it took just a seconds, but the experience was incredible! Used Canon 6D IR Baader Mod, Tamron 70-300 mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 26th January, 2015, and the Sun was slowly setting down over the cloudy horizon over the Atacama desert. Well, not that slowly to prepare the equipment, thus I only stood in front of the La Residencia of the Paranal Observatory and from my hand tried to capture the last moments of the Sun&#8217;s good-bye&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?p=1995\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atmospheric-phenomena","category-the-sun-and-solar-phenomena","tag-european-southern-observatory"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}