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A Spot on the Sun, Shuttle and ISS transit captured
ElkGroveDan
post Sep 29 2006, 04:18 PM
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A spot in the sun
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770

It looks like a speck of dust on the surface of the sun. But this spectacular picture shows the space shuttle Atlantis alongside the International Space Station (ISS) silhouetted as they orbit the earth.

The image was taken in Normandy by French astrophotographer Thierry Legault. He used a digital camera attached to a £5,000 specially kitted-out telescope.

The shuttle, which returned last week from a 12-day mission, and the space station can be seen in orbit 250 miles above the earth while the sun is 93 million miles away

If anyone knows this guy, pass on my kudos to him. This is simply amazing.
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post Sep 29 2006, 04:46 PM
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ElkGroveDan,

this picture was already reported here with a high-res full-size picture and also in another thread I cannot find anymore.
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