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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Tech / Science Between Here and the Sun

Posted by Grant Brissey on Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 4:18 PM

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French photographer Thierry Legault captured this image of Atlantis recently from 100 km south of the Kennedy Space Center. This is a crop, but you can see the full photos at his site, where he explains his methods and equipment. Also be sure to check out his awesome 2006 photos of the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station.

Photo courtesy Thierry Legault.

H/T wired.com through onorbit.com.

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Photoshop is awesome!

Posted by I Got Nuthin' on August 1, 2009 at 4:34 PM

Agreed. So are these photos.

Posted by Grant Brissey

on August 1, 2009 at 4:40 PM

I posted that pic back in March:
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…

Posted by Peter F on August 1, 2009 at 4:46 PM

Who is Grant Brissey?

Posted by bella

on August 1, 2009 at 5:54 PM

Pretty fucking awesome.

Posted by TVDinner

on August 1, 2009 at 6:17 PM

You almost never see the Sun yellow...like kid using crayola on rag paper yellow.

Posted by Elmer's Glue on August 1, 2009 at 7:34 PM

Oh Lord, thy sea is so large, and my boat is so small...

Posted by gfish

on August 1, 2009 at 8:55 PM

If you look at it zoomed in, you can see the string.

Posted by Ackham on August 1, 2009 at 10:56 PM

Yeah, it was a great picture when those of us who pay attention to these things first saw it four months ago, and it's still a great picture today.

But hey, thanks for jumping on the bandwagon!

Posted by COMTE

on August 2, 2009 at 1:34 AM

Is this for real or awesome photoshop?

Posted by Ryan-T

on August 2, 2009 at 3:56 AM

Totes 4 realz.

Posted by COMTE

on August 2, 2009 at 10:17 AM

Thierry Legault's website is right here: http://www.astrophoto.fr/

It may or may not interest readers to know, speaking of the International Space Station, that NASA's current plan is to deorbit the ISS on purpose, and to ditch it in the ocean in 2016.

Posted by Peter F on August 2, 2009 at 12:48 PM