STS-125 Atlantis Solar Transit (200905120002HQ)
In this tightly cropped image, the NASA space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during solar transit, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from Florida. This image was made before Atlantis and the crew of STS-125 had grappled the Hubble Space Telescope. Photo Credit: (NASA/Thierry Legault)
Thierry made this image using a solar-filtered Takahashi 5-inch refracting telescope and a Canon 5D Mark II digital camera. Photo Credit: (NASA/Thierry Legault)
You can see more of Thierry's fine work at: www.astrophoto.fr/
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step(sic), 37Hz, danregal, Peter Liu Photography, and 2873 other people added this photo to their favorites.
dterryphotography (49 months ago | reply)
Wow! That is WAY cool! I love it when you can see something that would ordinarily be invisible to the naked eye. This is awesome.
Rapha - Serrana (49 months ago | reply)
Absolutely amazing! :)
Peter Liu Photography (49 months ago | reply)
I'm in awe!
macprohawaii (49 months ago | reply)
I thought it was a sunspot.... surprisingly the space shuttle. Wow!
dgwoz (49 months ago | reply)
Fantastic photo. I too am in awe. Thank you!
VisualUniverse (49 months ago | reply)
Incredible. I gotta try this.
obouton (49 months ago | reply)
Awesome shots.
Makes me want to watch Sunshine again :)
Joe Rotindo (49 months ago | reply)
whoa.
incredible image...
smiles7 (49 months ago | reply)
Most outstanding.
albertoverbay (49 months ago | reply)
blazing saddle
hipydeus (49 months ago | reply)
Absolutely fantastic! Thanks!
turutsrd (49 months ago | reply)
NASA's capabilities seem to be evolving quite nicely.
Gerald Davison (49 months ago | reply)
How fantastic is that!!!!
PsyberDave (49 months ago | reply)
Stunning!
nasa hq photo (49 months ago | reply)
Solar transit opportunities where calculated using: www.calsky.com
HaleyHyatt (49 months ago | reply)
beautiful and amazing. kudos to the photographer and NASA -- and thank you so much for making this all so easily accessible to the public. you have me addicted to NASA-TV, btw!
helen sotiriadis (49 months ago | reply)
wowowow
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Seen on your photo stream. (?)
Anders.Dahl (49 months ago | reply)
Unreal and so cool.
Stunning.
mjm_nz (49 months ago | reply)
that's so cool!
Saskya (49 months ago | reply)
Whoa....
Teddy n TJ Rule the World! (49 months ago | reply)
amazing!!
StangGT (49 months ago | reply)
this is insane...it better make explore
robbtopolski (49 months ago | reply)
Why is this copyrighted?
LVibber (49 months ago | reply)
Wow! Absolutely beautiful!
[oskr] (49 months ago | reply)
That's fantastic! Wow. Astronomy never ceases to impress me.
Stargazer95050 (49 months ago | reply)
The same photog also captured both Space Shuttle + Hubble together, minutes before they docked : legault.club.fr/atlantis_hst_transit.html
jimnista (49 months ago | reply)
amazing
Taffy Cat (49 months ago | reply)
Amazing, just amazing.
Arjuna Ravikumar (49 months ago | reply)
Wow.
Claudio Branch [deleted] (49 months ago | reply)
We are all quite small!
Amazing picture...I have always loved these kinds of images.
vtpeacenik (49 months ago | reply)
Little noisy, but otherwise a great shot...........
JUST KIDDING!!!!
Numinous.ca (49 months ago | reply)
I am amazed, to say the least.
edwinsamuel (49 months ago | reply)
Wow.. I'm in awe.
otodo (49 months ago | reply)
Awesome!!!
noamgalai (49 months ago | reply)
crazy
Tresijas (49 months ago | reply)
WAY cool. I'm feeling so tiny...
Rebekah Niles (Wednesday) [deleted] (49 months ago | reply)
I was on this ship. .. and it wasn't yellow.
nick123n (49 months ago | reply)
WOW!!!!!
mathotspot (49 months ago | reply)
I am speechless! Stunning!!!
I want this telescope!
"Master of Images" (49 months ago | reply)
Big Sun, Little space ship!
pjah73 (49 months ago | reply)
That's absolutely amazing!
Images by John 'K' (49 months ago | reply)
OH WOW - I want that camera :)
Studies In Comfort - Ian Levack (49 months ago | reply)
just amazing.
blakemvaughn (49 months ago | reply)
wow you dont see that every day
nice
Dan O. (49 months ago | reply)
The shuttle's entire transit lasted only 0.8sec and the picture was taken at 1/8000ths of a second I believe. In every sense, excellent work Mr. Legault!
victor.lavrentev (49 months ago | reply)
Great image!!!
blakemvaughn (49 months ago | reply)
but how did you do it
rstcg (49 months ago | reply)
How small are we?
The first time I saw the picture... man, it will never leave my mind.
Lightning Bug Creek (49 months ago | reply)
What a fantastic accomplishment!! Mr. Legault It's inspiring!
tonyolm (49 months ago | reply)
Now that is just a very cool photo.