Friday, May 15, 2009

Shuttle against the Sun

Awesome photo taken from the ground. [Link]

In the 0.8 seconds the Space Shuttle Atlantis took to cross the sun, French astrophotographer Thierry Legault snapped this picture with a five-inch telescope and a digital camera. The photo was taken on May 12, the day before the Shuttle grappled the Hubble Space Telescope.

The next day Legault got a stunning shot of the two spacecraft together, right before Atlantis reached out to grab Hubble

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