{"id":16213,"date":"2015-07-07T20:51:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T12:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photographer-catches-space-station-transiting-the-moon\/"},"modified":"2015-07-07T20:51:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T12:51:42","slug":"photographer-catches-space-station-transiting-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photographer-catches-space-station-transiting-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer catches space station transiting the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Australian photographer Dylan O\u2019Donnell captured this view of the International Space Station transiting the moon June 30. Credit: Dylan O\u2019Donnell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s not an unprecedented sight, but catching the International Space Station transiting a celestial object like the sun or moon takes patience and precision. An Australian photographer was in the right place at the right time to capture the moment.<\/p>\n

Using a Canon 70D camera attached to the back of a Celestron telescope, Dylan O\u2019Donnell caught a view of the space station passing in front of the moon June 30 from Byron Bay, New South Wales, the easternmost point in mainland Australia.<\/p>\n

The space station orbits about 260 miles above Earth, traveling nearly 18,000 mph on each trip around the planet. O\u2019Donnell says he carefully planned the June 30 photo opportunity up to a year in advance. He took a series of images at the time the space station was supposed to transit the moon, hoping the complex would appear in one of the files.<\/p>\n

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A close-up of the International Space Station. The spacecraft\u2019s truss structure, seen here running from lower left to upper right, measures 357 feet. Credit: Dylan O\u2019Donnell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIf you think that it might be a case of sitting there with your camera and a clock, with one hand on the shutter release, you\u2019d be absolutely correct! The ISS only passed over the moon for 0.33 seconds as it shoots by quite quickly,\u201d O\u2019Donnell wrote on his website. \u201cKnowing the second it would pass I fired a \u2018burst\u2019 mode of exposures then crossed my fingers and hoped it would show up in review \u2013 and it did!\u201d<\/p>\n

The space station appears like a small insect in the photo. The space station\u2019s huge structure, measuring nearly 360 feet along its truss backbone, is a victim of the long distance separating it from O\u2019Donnell\u2019s lens.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Donnell says he processed a group of images captured just before and just after the space station pass to bring out details of the moon\u2019s color.<\/p>\n

Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australian photographer Dylan O\u2019Donnell captured this view of the International Space Station transiting the moon June 30. Credit: Dylan O\u2019Donnell It\u2019s not an unprecedented sight, but catching the International Space Station transiting a celestial object like the sun or moon takes patience and precision. An Australian photographer was in the right place at the right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[717,625],"class_list":["post-16213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-international-space-station","tag-moon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}