See that little speck on the left side of the sun? Click on it and see if you recognize it, or got to the Astronomy pics site at left and click on it there. They've got a very high res version where you can really see it. It's an Image of the Space shuttle Atlantis undocking from the International Space Station (ISS) 50 minutes after undocking from the ISS, before return to Earth, taken from the area of Mamers (Normandie, France) on September 17th 2006 at 13h 38min 50s UT.
Takahashi TOA-150 refractor (diameter 150mm, final focal 2300mm), Baader helioscope and Canon 5D. Exposure of 1/8000s at 50 ISO, extracted from a series of 14 images (3 images/s) started 2s before the predicted time.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
For all you photo bugs.
Posted by FHB at 11:05 PM
4 comments:
Awesome.
Just showed this to my daughter, she wants to be an astronaut more than anything.
Thanks,
Christina
Cool. Love to hear kids talk like that.
Okay, what is it?
The space shuttle undocking from the Space station, taken as it passed in front of the sun last Sunday, with some sort of super gizmo camera, by some dude in france.
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