{"id":24624,"date":"2024-09-03T00:17:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T23:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?p=24624"},"modified":"2024-09-06T19:51:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T18:51:33","slug":"morning-moon-and-the-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?p=24624","title":{"rendered":"Morning Moon and the Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last days the International <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/international-space-station\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Space Station<\/a> (ISS) prepared several beautiful transits in front of the morning crescent Moon over Central Europe. I was lucky with one of these beautiful, even if very elusive moments, too. While observing from Jetonice, Czech Republic, on Thursday, August 29th, 2024, the Moon was covered by a thin layer of cirrus clouds. This caused a little bit worse visibility of the ISS but it was definitely a much more colorful show. The whole sequence shows about 6 seconds of shooting through my 250mm Dobsonian telescope (around 1:45 UTC), where also the gentle <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/what-is-earthshine\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Earthshine<\/a> was easily visible. Would you like to purchase a high-quality copy for print? Find out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>more here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24626\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024_08_29_ISS_Mesic_Jetonice_2000px.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24626\" src=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024_08_29_ISS_Mesic_Jetonice_2000px-800x512.png\" alt=\"Morning Moon and the Space Station\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" class=\"size-large wp-image-24626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024_08_29_ISS_Mesic_Jetonice_2000px-800x512.png 800w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024_08_29_ISS_Mesic_Jetonice_2000px-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024_08_29_ISS_Mesic_Jetonice_2000px-768x492.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024_08_29_ISS_Mesic_Jetonice_2000px-1536x983.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024_08_29_ISS_Mesic_Jetonice_2000px-1024x655.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024_08_29_ISS_Mesic_Jetonice_2000px-1688x1080.png 1688w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024_08_29_ISS_Mesic_Jetonice_2000px.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morning Moon and the Space Station<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Used Canon Ra, RL 254\/1200 (Skywatcher Flextube), HDR of Moon (ISO 3200, vary exposures), sequence of ISS (ISO 5000, 1\/4000s exposures).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24625\" style=\"width: 697px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-02-at-21-08-16-ISS-Transit-Finder.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24625\" src=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-02-at-21-08-16-ISS-Transit-Finder.png\" alt=\"Details about the transit on 29 August 2024 over Jetonice, Czech Republic\" width=\"687\" height=\"369\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-02-at-21-08-16-ISS-Transit-Finder.png 687w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-02-at-21-08-16-ISS-Transit-Finder-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Details about the transit on 29 August 2024 over Jetonice, Czech Republic<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last days the International Space Station (ISS) prepared several beautiful transits in front of the morning crescent Moon over Central Europe. I was lucky with one of these beautiful, even if very elusive moments, too. While observing from Jetonice, Czech Republic, on Thursday, August 29th, 2024, the Moon was covered by a thin layer of&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?p=24624\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-24624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-moon-and-lunar-phenomena","tag-iss-transit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24654,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24624\/revisions\/24654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}