Thursday, September 21, 2006

Solar transit of ISS and Atlantis

This is an amazig picture! Thierry Legault, an excellent astrophotographer in France, patiently prepared, and was lucky enough to photograph the Space Shuttle Atlantis two days ago, right after separation from the International Space Station.

He caught them both in the same frame, with the background of the sun, and from Earth!
He used a Takahashi TOA-150 refractor telescope, (diameter 150mm, final focal length 2300mm), a $9,000 telescope and a Cannon 5D camera and lenses.

The exposure was 1/8000s at 50 ISO, extracted from a series of 14 images (3 images/s) started 2s before the predicted time.

This made the Astronomy Picture of the Day today. I've never seen something like it.

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