{"id":3044,"date":"2015-11-03T08:02:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2015-11-03T10:11:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T18:11:14","slug":"animation-hand-drawn-maps-of-the-suns-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/03\/animation-hand-drawn-maps-of-the-suns-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Animation: Hand-drawn maps of the Sun&#8217;s weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea that since 1956 astronomers have been hand-drawing\u00a0&#8220;solar synoptic maps\u201d to track sunspots, solar flares, and other phenomena. Now, Kottke <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/15\/09\/hand-drawn-animation-of-43-years-of-the-suns-weather\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Artist and programmer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffreythompson.org\/\">Jeff Thompson<\/a> has compiled 15,000 hand-drawn maps of the Sun made by astronomers into a single video, creating a mesmerizing and delightfully makeshift stop-motion animation of the Sun&#8217;s activity over the last 43 years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/134541936\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Solar Forecast: June 1972 &ndash;&nbsp;June 2015\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \u2028<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/134541936\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea that since 1956 astronomers have been hand-drawing\u00a0&#8220;solar synoptic maps\u201d to track sunspots, solar flares, and other phenomena. Now, Kottke writes, Artist and programmer Jeff Thompson has compiled 15,000 hand-drawn maps of the Sun made by astronomers into a single video, creating a mesmerizing and delightfully makeshift stop-motion animation of the Sun&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}