{"id":2072,"date":"2009-07-17T00:47:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T05:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2013-06-14T16:05:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T21:05:10","slug":"two-sets-of-pioneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2072","title":{"rendered":"Two sets of pioneers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/iss_43486.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>From the coordinates I had received, the ISS was going to appear in the west and travel toward the northeast. Wrong. My spotter told me via cell phone that it was heading in a far different direction than I had expected, so I had to call an audible. Instead of sitting behind the pioneer statue on the capitol mall, I had to dash around to the front of it and pick a new foreground object. Thankfully I was able to still keep the capitol building in the photo!<\/p>\n<p>The few chances I would have had to get a horizontal trajectory of the ISS passing the capitol, it either appeared too far south of the capitol to work photographically or was obscured by clouds. Tonight&#8217;s photo, while not what I was trying so hard to set up for, isn&#8217;t bad; sometimes creativity gets a kick in the shorts, and this is one example!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the coordinates I had received, the ISS was going to appear in the west and travel toward the northeast. Wrong. My spotter told me via cell phone that it was heading in a far different direction than I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2072\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skies-and-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}