{"id":14076,"date":"2013-08-30T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14076"},"modified":"2013-08-30T03:00:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T08:00:12","slug":"the-spectrum-of-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14076","title":{"rendered":"The Spectrum of Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atoptics.co.uk\/fz655.htm\">Forked Lightning Spectra<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Denis Joye captured these lightning spectra during a thunderstorm over Paris.  They reveal the extreme conditions inside a lightning stroke.<\/p>\n<p>He used a 540 line\/mm diffraction grating in front of the camera lens. A slit is usually needed to get good line spectra. Here the very narrow lightning strokes make a slit quite unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>We see sharp spectrum emission lines superimposed on weaker continuum light.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forked Lightning Spectra Denis Joye captured these lightning spectra during a thunderstorm over Paris. They reveal the extreme conditions inside a lightning stroke. He used a 540 line\/mm diffraction grating in front of the camera lens. A slit is usually &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14076\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}