{"id":682,"date":"2006-09-21T10:05:18","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T10:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=682"},"modified":"2006-09-21T10:05:18","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T10:05:18","slug":"awesome_photos_of_the_shuttle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/21\/awesome_photos_of_the_shuttle\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Photos of the Shuttle and Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;s about we start the day with a little jolt of wonder:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/iss_suntransit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shuttle and ISS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/iss_suntransit-thumb.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the space shuttle <i>Atlantis<\/i> pulling away from the International Space Station. Cool enough on its own, but what makes this so wondrous is that the photo was taken <i>from the ground<\/i> and that it&#8217;s a shot of the two spacecraft transiting <i>in front of the sun<\/i>. Here&#8217;s the complete image:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/iss_suntransit2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shuttle and ISS transiting in front of sun\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/iss_suntransit2-thumb.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Large versions of these images and details of how they were made can be found on the photographer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrosurf.com\/legault\/iss_atlantis_transit.html\">website<\/a>, along with a charmingly pastoral image of his telescope set-up. Thanks to Phil at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/bablog\/2006\/09\/20\/shuttle-and-iss-transit-the-sun\/\">Bad Astronomy<\/a> for bringing this to my attention, and also for adding that &#8220;see &#8217;em there&#8221; tag to the second image&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;s about we start the day with a little jolt of wonder: That&#8217;s the space shuttle Atlantis pulling away from the International Space Station. Cool enough on its own, but what makes this so wondrous is that the photo was taken from the ground and that it&#8217;s a shot of the two spacecraft transiting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-frontier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}