Aurora in Iceland, over the Kirkjufell (the "Church-mount")
Full image: http://www.astrophoto.fr/kirkjufell_auroras_fb.jpg
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- Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:39 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submission: 2019 April
- Replies: 99
- Views: 128244
- Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:35 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submission: 2019 April
- Replies: 99
- Views: 128244
Re: Submission: 2019 April
Friday morning at 9:28UTC, the resupply cargo Cygnus NG-11 (Northrop-Grumman / Thales Alenia Space) docked to the Canadarm2 articulated arm, while the ISS was flying over northern France at 28000 km/h. It is at this precise moment that I took a photo of their transit in front of the Sun: the small c...
- Mon Jan 21, 2019 3:04 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submission: 2019 January
- Replies: 113
- Views: 161309
Re: Submission: 2019 January
The eclipse after totality, seen from the Sully bridge near Notre-Dame de Paris
http://www.astrophoto.fr/eclipse20190121_0711_fb.jpg
http://www.astrophoto.fr/eclipse20190121_0711_fb.jpg
- Tue Dec 04, 2018 9:40 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submission: 2018 December
- Replies: 116
- Views: 141818
Re: Submission: 2018 December
for its 20 years anniversary, here a 3D video of the ISS with Discovery docked, plus the astronaut Steve Bowen in spacewalk , taken in Feb 2011. The shape of the ISS in 3D is perceived with cross-eyed method or anaglyph (red/blue glasses) method. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc_SFPnk8iM This is t...
- Thu Oct 18, 2018 1:35 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submission: 2018 October
- Replies: 104
- Views: 86265
Re: Submission: 2018 October
The solar granulation at high resolution (0.1"/pixel) in green light, taken from the French Alps at 2930m altitude in August with a 356mm telescope (C14). A window of (relatively) stable seeing allowed me to make this animation showing the evolution of the solar surface during 16 minutes. The l...
- Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:34 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submission: 2018 September
- Replies: 141
- Views: 79017
Re: Submission: 2018 September
The comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner this morning, near the open cluster Messier 35. Below M35, the tight open cluster NGC2158.
Celestron Rowe-Ackermann 11 " (280mm f/2.2) & Sony Alpha 7S, 9 x30s.
http://www.astrophoto.fr/20180916_giaco ... ner_fb.jpg
Celestron Rowe-Ackermann 11 " (280mm f/2.2) & Sony Alpha 7S, 9 x30s.
http://www.astrophoto.fr/20180916_giaco ... ner_fb.jpg
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 8:50 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submissions: 2018 July
- Replies: 148
- Views: 127612
The 4 bright planets, the Moon and the ISS
I went to the Mount Wilson Observatory on July 19, to film the passage of the ISS over Los Angeles in the presence of the Moon and the 4 bright planets along the ecliptic: Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFgM2Vv_PZ8 The stacked picture: http://www.astrophoto.fr/planets...
- Thu May 24, 2018 6:32 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Spiral Galaxy NGC 4038 in Collision (2018 May 23)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 23463
Re: APOD: Spiral Galaxy NGC 4038 in Collision (2018 May 23)
very nice picture, but the antennas have been published here about once per year since 2010...would there be a lack of (more) original pictures proposed in starship asterisk?
- Tue May 15, 2018 1:45 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submissions: 2018 May
- Replies: 90
- Views: 149417
New Moon lunar crescent
The very thin lunar crescent at the precise moment of the New Moon, today May 15 from Normandy at 11h48m UTC! nm_180515[1].jpg http://www.astrophoto.fr/nm_180515.jpg The separation from the Sun being only 5°, the sky was extremely bright and I had to: - use an infrared filter to decrease the blue of...
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 10:14 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Found Images: 2018 April
- Replies: 53
- Views: 223661
Re: Found Images: 2018 April
I filmed Tiangong-1 this morning over France, passing between Mars and Saturn! Waiting for the crash, next night
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 6:07 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submissions: 2018 March
- Replies: 128
- Views: 456989
Re: Submissions: 2018 March
The Chinese Space Station Tiangong 1 is going to crash very soon (likely Sunday or Monday), somewhere on Earth between 43°N and 43°S... I would like to watch the reentry: what nice fireworks it will be! :D Two solar transits of Tiangong (docked to the Shenzhou module) taken in June 2013 from Souther...
- Fri Feb 02, 2018 1:55 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submissions: 2018 February
- Replies: 116
- Views: 207465
Re: Submissions: 2018 February
The total (super)moon eclipse of Jan 31 over Singapore! http://www.astrophoto.fr/eclipse180131_partial_singapore_900.jpg http://www.astrophoto.fr/eclipse180131_total_singapore_900.jpg From left to right: The Singapore Flyer, the Art&Science Museum and the Marina Bay Sands hotel during the laser...
- Sun Jan 21, 2018 8:09 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Upper Michigan Blizzard of 1938 (2018 Jan 21)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11037
Re: APOD: The Upper Michigan Blizzard of 1938 (2018 Jan 21)
Impressive image...however, I don't understand why it's in Astronomy Picture of the Day Is there a shortage of astronomical pictures ? (if yes, we have solutions )
regards
regards
- Fri Nov 10, 2017 9:10 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submissions: 2017 November
- Replies: 159
- Views: 181551
Re: Submissions: 2017 November
The Empire State Building playing cup-and-ball with the November Full "Beaver" Moon Single shot 0.5s image taken Nov 3rd with 135mm lens from Hoboken (New Jersey). The Moon is dimmer than usual thanks to the layer of high clouds. fullmoon_empirestatebuilding_vertical1000[1].jpg http://www...
- Fri Aug 25, 2017 12:35 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submissions: 2017 August
- Replies: 168
- Views: 139405
Re: Submissions: 2017 August
Two wide angle shots of the Milky Way through Delicate Arch (Utah), respectively taken with 20mm and 14mm lenses. Saturn is visible just over the Pipe nebula :) http://www.astrophoto.fr/milkyway_delicate_arch_sigma20mm_thierrylegault_cpr_apod.jpg http://www.astrophoto.fr/milkyway_delicate_arch_light...
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 4:28 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submissions: 2017 August
- Replies: 168
- Views: 139405
3 days before the eclipse: the Sun and the Moon get closer
August 18th: beautiful sunrise at Mesa Arch, Canyonlands NP, Utah. The Moon is visible at the top of the image, close to the edge.
http://www.astrophoto.fr/sun_moon_canyo ... egault.jpg
http://www.astrophoto.fr/sun_moon_canyo ... egault.jpg
- Thu Jun 08, 2017 7:25 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submissions: 2017 June
- Replies: 131
- Views: 70574
Passage of CRS-11 (SpaceX Dragon)
Hello, I filmed the passage over France (Tours) Saturday night, about 20 min after launch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN2cLT11qJU You can see the Dragon, stage 2, solar panel covers plus a nice surprise I discovered during processing: several fast ejections of material, probably from thrusters! ...
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 8:38 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submissions: 2017 February
- Replies: 152
- Views: 132510
Lunar transit of the ISS
Last Saturday I filmed a lunar transit of the ISS with my compatriot the French astronaut Thomas Pesquet inside, from Rouen (his birth city):
http://www.astrophoto.fr/iss_transit_170204_100.jpg
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 9:49 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 6357: The Lobster Nebula (2017 Feb 07)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8198
Re: APOD: NGC 6357: The Lobster Nebula (2017 Feb 07)
I would have been good to precise that the round colored halos around all bright stars are not nebulas but reflections in the optics! They are very visible and I think that's confusing for most people.
- Sat May 14, 2016 11:11 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: ISS and Mercury Too (2016 May 13)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5168
Re: APOD: ISS and Mercury Too (2016 May 13)
Unfortunately, TLE predictions (which Calsky uses) are not accurate enough for reliable , precision conjunction assessments like a satellite / planet overlap, and ground track accuracy typically is better nearer, or even prior, to the TLE epoch. In addition, a large, LEO satellite like the ISS adds...
- Fri May 13, 2016 7:30 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: ISS and Mercury Too (2016 May 13)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5168
Re: APOD: ISS and Mercury Too (2016 May 13)
I was also amazed when I first saw this one. Still amazed now. Mr Legault has a habit of amazing me. And I bet he put additional thought into his position, so as to avoid the possibility of the ISS lining up with Mercury and potentially obscuring it. Actually I used the Calsky calculation for the t...
- Fri May 13, 2016 6:58 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: ISS and Mercury Too (2016 May 13)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5168
Re: APOD: ISS and Mercury Too (2016 May 13)
Oh, Cool.... but tell me this.... WHY does it look like a T.I.E. Fighter????? :shock: :---[===] * it's not the first time I have that comment about the TIE fighter, but it's not the case when you look at the close-up: http://www.astrophoto.fr/mercury-transit-2016-crop.jpg Moreover, Empire spokesman...
- Fri May 13, 2016 6:54 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: ISS and Mercury Too (2016 May 13)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5168
Re: APOD: ISS and Mercury Too (2016 May 13)
First of all, thanks to the APOD editors and for those nice comments above. It's been a lot a efforts in time, money and energy for me to take those pictures (including one week of vacancy and all travel expenses from France). As you can see, there are clouds passing in front of the Sun during the t...
- Wed May 11, 2016 9:20 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submissions: 2016 May
- Replies: 173
- Views: 314869
Re: Submissions: 2016 May
A crop on the double transit image, for more details on Mercury and the ISS
- Tue May 10, 2016 2:33 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submissions: 2016 May
- Replies: 173
- Views: 314869
Re: Submissions: 2016 May
Transit of Mercury and the ISS, taken from Philadelphia: http://www.astrophoto.fr/mercury-transit-2016-50.jpg The video shows the double transit, plus another double transit with an unexpected guest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le-B2AnFiWw 10 minutes after the transit of the ISS, I was under a th...