{"id":3276,"date":"2011-03-09T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/shuttle-and-space-station-and-sunspot\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:51:25","slug":"shuttle-and-space-station-and-sunspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/shuttle-and-space-station-and-sunspot\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuttle and Space Station (and Sunspot)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sunspotconjunction_strip.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582034764797192434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sunspotconjunction_strip.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 348px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Check it out! The ISS and the Shuttle Discovery captured by an amateur astro-photographer as they passed in front of the sun, with major sunspots nearby! <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Catalin Fus of Krakow, Poland, had his <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopspaceweather.com\/seethesun.aspx\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">solar-filtered<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> telescope trained on sunspot 1166 on March 7 and recorded this amazing conjunction. Thanks Catlin and thanks to spaceweather.com. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I had the whole family out in the front yard after dinner last night. ISS and the Shuttle made spectacular pass over the Washington DC area. We saw both rise up from the Northwest and then blink out after passing overhead. The shuttle (I think) was about one minute behind ISS. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check it out! The ISS and the Shuttle Discovery captured by an amateur astro-photographer as they passed in front of the sun, with major sunspots nearby! Catalin Fus of Krakow, Poland, had his solar-filtered telescope trained on sunspot 1166 on March 7 and recorded this amazing conjunction. Thanks Catlin and thanks to spaceweather.com. I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/shuttle-and-space-station-and-sunspot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shuttle and Space Station (and Sunspot)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satellites","category-solar-cycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions\/3278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}