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Friday, May 15, 2009

Science Now, In Space

Posted by Jonathan Golob on Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:47 PM

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I <3 Hubble. I hope this mission is successful.

Posted by tabletop_joe on May 15, 2009 at 4:08 PM

I'm totally ganked for this mission and have been following the rss feed. Nerdgasm.

Best, best best of luck to them all; great job so far.

Posted by JoeG on May 15, 2009 at 4:32 PM

Check out this pic of the sun, taken by astronomer Thierry Legault with a five inch telescope in Florida, yesterday:

http://www.astrosurf.com/legault/atlanti…

Make sure to zoom in on that speck near the bottom left of the sun -- it's the Space Shuttle Atlantis, caught transiting the sun in high orbit. The dark object next to the Shuttle is Hubble!

Posted by Peter F on May 15, 2009 at 4:46 PM

oh all the nerds thank you! yeah, i'm on tenterhooks and this is so awesome.

Posted by onion on May 15, 2009 at 5:44 PM

Goddamn, astronauts are cool.

Posted by Greg on May 15, 2009 at 5:56 PM

@3: That is SO COOL! Thanks!

Posted by Kristi in Kitsap on May 15, 2009 at 7:35 PM

@3:

!

Wow!

I wonder what kind of filter Legault had to use to get that image?

Posted by tabletop_joe on May 15, 2009 at 10:08 PM

joe @ 7, NASA's writeup on Flickr says "Thierry made this image using a solar-filtered Takahashi 5-inch refracting telescope and a Canon 5D Mark II digital camera."

Posted by Peter F on May 15, 2009 at 10:49 PM

That's waaaay more low-fi than I had imagined.

Has anyone here ever made a Dobsonian telescope? I saw a special about John Dobson the other day, and I really want to make one.

Posted by tabletop_joe on May 16, 2009 at 12:03 PM