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Saturday, May 16, 2009

Atlantis, HST in Front of the Sun

Check out the little black marks in the lower left of old Sol. That's Shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope (you can see it in more detail below). The picture was taken from Florida by Thierry Legault. He calculated when the spacecraft would be aligned with the sun from his Florida location and took the shot. Well done. More innovative astrophotography at his site: http://www.astrophoto.fr/ Note: Too bad we don't see any REAL sunspots!

5 comments:

Minor said...

Excellent article. Keep rocking.Kalamazoo

Guy Atkins said...
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Guy Atkins said...

The lack of REAL sunspots is actually an encouraging sign for trans-Pacific/trans-Atlantic MW DXers and top band operators that last fall's great conditions might repeat in 2009!

Guy Atkins KE7MAV
Puyallup, WA USA
www.perseus-sdr.blogspot.com

Bill N2CQR CU2JL M0HBR said...

Guy: I guess you are just looking on the bright side. ;-)
73 Bill

Roberto said...

Beautiful photo...

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