{"id":938,"date":"2007-03-03T08:25:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T16:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/03\/03\/lunar-transit-of-the-sun\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T15:41:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T23:41:49","slug":"lunar-transit-of-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/03\/03\/lunar-transit-of-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Transit of the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although there will be an <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2007\/12feb_lunareclipse.htm\">eclipse of the Moon<\/a> later today, there was a solar eclipse, of sorts, last week &#8212; from the vantage point of one of the recently-launched <a href=\"http:\/\/stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov\/index.shtml\">STEREO<\/a> spacecraft, that is. <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap070303.html\">Astronomy Picture of the Day<\/a> featured this video of a lunar transit of the Sun taken by the cameras on board <strong>STEREO B<\/strong>, one of two STEREO spacecraft en route to their observation stations. The <a href=\"http:\/\/facstaff.uww.edu\/mccreadd\/intro9.htm\">angular subtense<\/a> of the Moon in this video is about a quarter of the size as would be seen from Earth.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/stereo-lunar-transit.php\">\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Video courtesy NASA &#038; APOD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although there will be an eclipse of the Moon later today, there was a solar eclipse, of sorts, last week &#8212; from the vantage point of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-rocket-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}