{"id":569748,"date":"2010-05-18T18:09:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T22:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=15879"},"modified":"2010-05-18T18:09:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T22:09:58","slug":"iss-shuttle-transit-the-sun-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569748","title":{"rendered":"ISS, Shuttle transit the Sun! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thierry Legault is a gift to astronomy bloggers. He just sent me <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/astrosurf.com\/legault\/iss_atlantis_transit_2010.html\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/astrosurf.com\/legault\/iss_atlantis_2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/05\/thierry_iss_atlantis_2010.jpg\" alt=\"thierry_iss_atlantis_2010\" title=\"thierry_iss_atlantis_2010\" width=\"610\" height=\"610\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15880\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Holy. <\/p>\n<p>Hale.<\/p>\n<p>Akala.<\/p>\n<p>The big yellow thing is the Sun. But look at the upper right section. See those two dark blips? The one on the left is the Shuttle Orbiter <em>Atlantis<\/em> and on the right is the International Space Station<strong>! Incredibly, Thierry caught them as they passed directly in front of the Sun!<\/strong> To give you an idea of how talented Thierry is, the entire transit lasted just over <em>half a second<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Click to embiggen. I mean it, click it. The full-scale image is drop-dead incredible. Mind you, <em>Atlantis<\/em> had just started its pitch maneuver, designed to show its belly to the crew on the ISS so they can inspect it for heat tile damage. That means this image was taken shortly before the Orbiter docked with the station, on May 16th. Thierry was in Madrid specifically to get this shot.<\/p>\n<p>Un frakkin&#8217; believable.<\/p>\n<p>Get a good look. This is the last mission of <em>Atlantis<\/em> (unless it&#8217;s needed as a rescue mission later this year), so we won&#8217;t get too many more views like this. <\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<hr width=\"30%\" align=\"left\">\n<font size=\"-1\"><em><\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/05\/14\/extremely-cool-3d-space-station-video-taken-from-the-ground\/\">Extremely cool 3D Space Station video taken from the ground<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/05\/15\/check-this-out-amazing-photo-of-the-sun\/\">Check. This. Out. Amazing photo of the Sun<\/a><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Image used with permission by Thierry Legault.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BXvWyhsZj2V6EAbGNv7aezzFHHM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BXvWyhsZj2V6EAbGNv7aezzFHHM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BXvWyhsZj2V6EAbGNv7aezzFHHM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BXvWyhsZj2V6EAbGNv7aezzFHHM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/z96GnVQnwoc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/zAu5p87nd6g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thierry Legault is a gift to astronomy bloggers. He just sent me this: Holy. Hale. Akala. The big yellow thing is the Sun. But look at the upper right section. See those two dark blips? The one on the left is the Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis and on the right is the International Space Station! Incredibly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}