{"id":615,"date":"2010-08-31T08:37:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T07:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=615"},"modified":"2010-08-31T08:37:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T07:37:21","slug":"sunsets-space-stations-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/sunsets-space-stations-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunsets, Space Stations & Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh yes, there was a landscape too \ud83d\ude42<\/h2>\n

Yesterday I was having problems, nothing serious, but I was struggling to take a photograph to Blip<\/a>. I took a few photographs on our morning walk but when I looked at them on screen none of them were any good. I took a cobweb, but there was no spider in it and the light wasn’t exciting; I took some shafts of light in the wood, but when I looked at the results it was a dark mush of nothing; my photographs of birds on the wires looked like dots on a string, I decided to wait and see what would happen. Well, nothing happened and I had to go to work. In desperation I took the camera and tripod to work with me, and it was lucky that I did.<\/p>\n

I started with a photograph of things close by, so the fields in front of the box with the Pennines in the distance seemed like a good idea for a snap –<\/p>\n

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Then, a little later I spotted the sky changing nicely as the Sun started to set –<\/p>\n

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I’d not intended taking landscapes or Sunsets however, earlier in the day there had been a Tweet that the ISS (International Space Station) would be making a bright pass at 2104hrs and so I set the camera up on the tripod and waited, eventually the ISS rose above the factory buildings and I took a photograph. Happy that I finally had a photograph to Blip I stood back to watch the ISS pass overhead, then I spotted Jupiter was just starting to rise above the Pennines and I quickly pointed the camera in that direction –<\/p>\n

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That would be it for the evening I thought, then the Moon popped up above the hills and I grabbed a couple of lunar shots –<\/p>\n

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As I’d taken the Moon, a planet, and the ISS that night it felt appropriate to take a few star photographs as well \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Finally, the dot…<\/p>\n

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It’s hard to believe that this tiny dot of light is actually another planet, and not just a tiny little piece of rock, it has a radius 11 times (or so) that of Earth, yet we see just a dot of light*. So the next time you’re outside at night and the sky isn’t either covered with cloud or flooded with light pollution have a look up, that dot of light may just be another World \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

*okay, you can see more than a dot of light with a telescope, but let’s not be too picky \ud83d\ude09<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh yes, there was a landscape too \ud83d\ude42 Yesterday I was having problems, nothing serious, but I was struggling to take a photograph to Blip. I took a few photographs on our morning walk but when I looked at them on screen none of them were any good. I took a cobweb, but there was no spider in it and the light wasn’t exciting; I took some shafts of light in the wood, but when I looked at the results it was a dark mush of nothing; my photographs of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[192,190,191],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-photography","tag-iss","tag-jupiter","tag-space"],"gutentor_comment":1,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}