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Why only one transit when one can have two? :-) Here is my transit of the Hubble Space Telescope in the middle of the transit of Venus, taken from Australia (Queensland) [attachment=0]thierry.jpg[/attachment] http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/transit_venus_hst_33_marks.jpg http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/tran...

hello, this is Venus and the Pleiades taken on April 2, and the group Moon-Venus-Jupiter on March 26:
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Video of passage of Phobos-Grunt on New Year's Day over France:
Additional info and details on this page: http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/phobos-grunt.html

A video of UARS (the satellite that is going to reenter the atmosphere tomorrow) taken from the ground last Thrusday with 14" telescope on automatic tracking system: http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/uars_110915.html

Some shots from the video:


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Last possible transit of a space shuttle! it has been difficult to find a clear sky over Northern Europe for this last possible transit of Atlantis, taken at 08:27:48UT, just 21 minutes before deorbit burn . I finally went to the very North-Western Germany, close to Emden city. Fortunately the tran...

Atlantis retrospective [attachment=0]shuttle retro.jpg[/attachment] http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/atlantis_retrospective_caption.jpg (image without text: http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/atlantis_retrospective.jpg ) This series includes a transit taken yesterday (July 19 at 07:17UT) from Czech Republik, s...

Spying on spies! Copyright: Thierry Legault http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/X-37B_USA-186_lacrosse3.jpg Here are the first (amateur) detailed images of secret shuttle X-37B and spy (reconnaissance) satellites USA-186 (Keyhole) and Lacrosse 3. Complete video sequences with flares on this page: http://le...

thanks to everyone for their nice compliments. About the color, I could have put a yellow filter but actually I simply did it by processing. When I began to take transits shots in 2006, I left them B&W but so many people wanted the image to be colorized that I decided to do it! PS: I confirm tha...

hello and happy new year 2011, here is an image of a solar transit of the ISS (International Space Station) during the eclipse, taken from the area of Muscat, capital of Oman. http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/eclipse110104_solar_transit_12.jpg Larger images and more details here: http://legault.perso.sfr...

Thank you for your comments, I'll try to reply to the questions Why is the background black? The background is black because of the very dark filters used to decrease the intensity of the light. If you look at the Sun with a solderer helmet, you'll see the same thing: the solar disk (color depending...