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Northern Lights filmed from Norway in March 2016: Iridium flares filmed over auroras, with pulsating auroras and a shooting star during one flare:

Due to the accuracy of the criticisms, this APOD has now been completely changed -- picture and all. We thank our careful and well-informed audience for pointing out the problem(s) and apologize for the oversight and for the delay. - RJN Good news Robert, however I suggest a mention in the last APO...

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! People, stop giving this guy a pass with sympathy! I will NEVER understand the compulsion to defend this guy.....he has brought a stain onto the astronomy world for all to see, especially non astronomers....and given more ammo to the anti-science crowd.....Folks there is damage ...

BTW here is my video of the HST in front of Jupiter https://www.flickr.com/photos/vontom/6095801209 nice catch Tom! :) Being not native English, I checked my dictionary and here is the definition of "mistake": an ​action or ​decision that is ​wrong or ​produces a ​result that is not ​corr...

Alice, first of all I would like to congratulate all APOD editors for the good work they have done for us during all those years, presenting exciting pictures and information. They are not imaging specialists and then it's difficult for me to blame them for having been fooled. However I would respec...

I second Chris: Julian, did you catch a transit of the ISS, or at least a close passage of it besides Saturn, during that morning of Jan 15th? The famous imager Christopher Go also told me cleverly that since we are far from opposition, there should be a shadow of the disk on the rings (on the right...

Appreciate your mea culpa Julian, however it's not only a question of planning and hardware, it's also a question of law of physics. To freeze the movement of the ISS, you need an exposure of 1 millisecond or less, and all experienced imagers know that then Saturn is totally underexposed, unsharp an...

Happy new year to all! Here is a kind of new year fireworks :D I filmed the Geminids with the Sony 7S and selected the best ones (including double and triple meteors): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_bxMY6eSRU http://www.astrophoto.fr/geminids2015_orion.jpg There are also several satellites passing...

hello, the giant prominence vanished today, at more than 150,000 miles over the surface

http://www.astrophoto.fr/s20150930-090900UTC.jpg

Hello, I had a transit of the ISS during the lunar eclipse, only 10 miles away from my home. The Moon was very low on the horizon (16°), so the ISS was quite far (1100 km). To my knwoledge, this is the first lunar eclipse photographed with a simultaneous transit of the ISS. http://www.astrophoto.fr/...

The weather is always fine in Southern Spain...except during eclipse days! I had to drive a lot trying to find clear skies, finally the sky was covered with thick high clouds but I got the ISS passing in front of the Moon during the eclipse! :D YouTube video: http://youtu.be/JwjvduR3_Ho http://www.a...

Hello Yaogan triplets are Chinese reconnaissance satellites flying at 1100km in groups of 3 separated by about 100km (5°). Here are two triplets taken with the Sony A7s, Yoagan 16 A/B/C passing over M31, the Pleiades, the Hyades, the Orion nebula, with a flare at the beginning. Second is Yaogan 20 A...

Hello usually Iridium flares are photographed in long exposures, last summer I have filmed 3 of them in the Big Dipper and Orion (over a pond that reflects the flare), with the Sony A7s at 12800 iso(!). This new camera shows a very low noise, the best level of all existing DSLRs. In video you can se...

Auroras in real-time video Hello, I was in northern Norway in October with the Sony A7s and we had 3 fantastic auroral nights with an incredible variety of shapes and behaviors. At moments they were so fast that 25 frames/s was almost not enough! In real-time video, the stars twinkle and the trees ...

Hi, here is a YT Full HD movie with the ISS and the European cargo ATV-5, in transit in front of the Sun and during a nightime passage: http://youtu.be/AtEVzRx9ktw Some still shots: http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/ISS_ATV5_transit_stack.jpg http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/ISS_ATV5_transit_lb.jpg http://lega...

Night and Day timelapses over the active volcanoes of Tengger-Bromo-Semeru Park, Java, Indonesia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-supfpRIWLs Some still images: http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/indonesian_volcanoes_fog.jpg http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/indonesian_volcanoes_milkyway_v.jpg http://legault.perso.sfr.f...

Supermoon celebrates Bastille Day over Eiffel Tower fireworks:
video sequence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEmgOXNY4Tc

Fantastic passage of the SpaceX Dragon over Paris 25 minutes after launch! Four bright points moving together while crossing the Big Dipper:



Full HD video:

Here is the lunar crescent taken at the exact moment of July 2013 New Moon at 7:14 UTC, 4.4° from the Sun in full daylight:
More details on this page, including the special sunshide system: http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/new_moon_2013july8.html

Here is a double transit of the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 with the Shenzhou-10 module docked since June 11 with 3 astronauts inside. Duration of transits: 0.46s. More images and details here: http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/transit_tiangong1_shenzhou10_130616-17.html [attachment=0]thierry.jpg[/at...

Venus, Jupiter and Mercury over Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France on May 26th.
Thierry Legault
http://www.astrophoto.fr

Here is a shot taken just 1 hour before the partial eclipse, during a flight between Tangier and Paris. Thanks to the atmospheric refraction, both the Sun and the Full Moon were visible simultaneously, in addition with the Venus belt. [attachment=0]ThierryEclipse.jpg[/attachment] http://legault.pers...

Hello and happy new year! Wide angle and circular fisheye views and FullHD time-lapse of auroras mid-december over Komagfjord, Norway: http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/auroras.html http://youtu.be/watch?v=0MOzKXww8z8 http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/aurores_0831.jpg http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/aurores_1438.jp...

A night at Wallaman Falls, Queensland, Australia. A bright meteor crosses the Milky Way, while the light of the gibbous Moon causes a moonbow with the waterfall.

The Atmosphere of Venus The atmospheric arc of Venus taken during its transit ingress on June 5 at 22:30UT from Australia (Queensland): http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/venus_transit_ingress_22h30m15s.jpg The full ingress sequence: http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/venus_transit_atmosphere.jpg At the beginnin...