Shuttle against the Sun
Photo Credit: (NASA/Thierry Legault)
This amazing photo was taken of the space shuttle Atlantis during a “solar transit” – basically moving between the viewer on Earth and the Sun. It was taken on Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from Florida, before the Atlantis the crew had grappled the Hubble Space Telescope.
It was photographed by Thierry Legault using a solar-filtered Takahashi 5-inch refracting telescope and a Canon 5D Mark II digital camera.
For more on this photograph and others in the series, visit Solar Transit of Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope.
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