{"id":115515,"date":"2020-11-06T18:25:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T02:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/photographer-catches-the-iss-crossing-the-sun-and-moon"},"modified":"2020-11-06T18:25:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T02:25:31","slug":"photographer-catches-the-iss-crossing-the-sun-and-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/photographer-catches-the-iss-crossing-the-sun-and-moon","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Catches the ISS Crossing the Sun and Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photographer-catches-the-iss-crossing-the-sun-and-moon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cosmic_background\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">Andrew McCarthy<\/a> is known for shooting <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/tag\/andrewmccarthy\/\">incredible astrophotography images<\/a> from his backyard in Sacramento, California. He recently added two more jaw-dropping images to his portfolio: ultra-clear views of the International Space Station (ISS) crossing the Sun and Moon.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the ISS whizzes across the Sun and Moon in less than a second from the perspective of someone on Earth, capturing a clear view of the transit is <em>not<\/em> an easy thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy first managed to capture the ISS transiting the Sun on Tuesday, October 6th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Andrew McCarthy is known for shooting incredible astrophotography images from his backyard in Sacramento, California. He recently added two more jaw-dropping images to his portfolio: ultra-clear views of the International Space Station (ISS) crossing the Sun and Moon. Given that the ISS whizzes across the Sun and Moon in less than a second from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}