{"id":34498,"date":"2013-12-12T09:15:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T15:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=34498"},"modified":"2013-12-13T14:55:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T20:55:06","slug":"vcsu-planetarium-chasing-the-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=34498","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Planetarium, &#8220;Chasing The Aurora&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/planetarium.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4168\" alt=\"planetarium\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/planetarium-300x200.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/planetarium-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/planetarium-261x175.png 261w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/planetarium.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Valley City State University Planetarium (Room 309 Rhoades Science Center) is hosting a special event \u201cChasing the Aurora\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>7 PM Thursday December 19, 2013 featuring planetarium alumni Durand \u201cDuke\u201d Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Very few people in the world have ever seen the aurora borealis, the northern lights. In March 2013, Salt Lake City, Utah, Clark Planetarium&#8217;s, Education Manager, Duke Johnson spent nearly two weeks in pursuit of the dazzling light show in Canada\u2019s far north. Braving temperatures as cold as -40\u00b0 F for up to eight hours at a time and trying to keep photographic gear working at those temperatures proved to be challenging. The presentation will be full of amazing pictures along with a 10 minute real aurora video taken with a fisheye lens that provides the best sense possible of an active aurora night.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation is free and open to all.\u00a0 For more information contact Wes Anderson 701-845-0966 or Alice Beauchman 701-845-7452<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Valley City State University Planetarium (Room 309 Rhoades Science Center) is hosting a special event \u201cChasing the Aurora\u201d\u00a0 7 PM Thursday December 19, 2013 featuring planetarium alumni Durand \u201cDuke\u201d Johnson. Very few people in the world have ever seen the aurora borealis, the northern lights. In March 2013, Salt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34500,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34498\/revisions\/34500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}