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Double Eclipse Photographed, Sun, Moon, and ISS
The Bad Astronomer writes "The exceptionally talented astrophotographer Thierry Legault captured a picture extraordinary even for him: the space station passing in front of the Sun while the Sun was being partially eclipsed by the Moon! He traveled all the way from France to the Sultanate of Oman to take this amazing shot. I have more information about the picture itself on the Bad Astronomy blog, but you should go to Thierry's website to see more amazing pictures he's taken over the years. They're simply jaw-dropping."
Looks like the site has been eclipsed already. :(
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Is the Empire here to crush us?! Save us, Luke!
What doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable
...it's a space station.
So apropos for once.
It would be interesting to know about the equipment he used and the settings on his camera
I think the correlation explains itself.
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They need to land at night if they're not going to burn up.
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The shadows are all wrong.
Whoa, Dude! So did this photographer have an emotional breakdown, too?
What does this mean!?
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Prisencolinensinainciusol. Ol Rait!
Go Canada!
That's a full Eclipse all the way. Double Eclipse oh my god.
I think he got some hummus on his lens.
Looks like photoshop'd fruit to me
http://astrosurf.com.nyud.net/legault/eclipse110104_solar_transit_25.jpg
Or does pac man look sick?
All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy
Beg, borrow or steal
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say
All that you eat
Everyone you meet
All that you slight
Everyone you fight
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
There are folks on dpreview who have scouted out locations to shoot the ISS transiting the moon and sun. The only difference is this guy did it during an eclipse, and had the funds to travel to the ideal location. That's not to say it's not a great shot; it is.
The Christian Right is Neither (Christian nor right). See: Matthew 23, Matthew 25, Ezekiel 16:48-50
I heard you like eclipses. So i put an object in front of another object with another object in front of it.
So you can umbra while you penumbra.
Some folks from the former East Germany sometimes ask me if the Apollo Moon landings were faked. Some admitted that they were taught so in school. Wrong shadows, flapping flag, etc.
I reply that I got up at 04:00 EST when Apollo 14 was on the Moon, and Alan Shepard knocked around some golf balls. Walter Cronkite looked liked he was grabbed out of the grave, and did not seemed amused that CBS dragged him out of bed to report on the Moon walk.
Golf balls on the Moon? Not even the wackiest Hollywood director could think that thing up.
Of course, the definitive evidence for the Moon landings is a mirror they left behind, which is used to shoot lasers at to determine the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Of course, one could argue that a Moon chick dropped her compact powder kit . . .
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
But if that's not a TiE fighter, I can't imagine what else it could be! The empire will be unloading storm troopers soon. Is no one else worried? Arrgh! Open your arms wide if you like, and go "Greetings! We're Earthlings.. Command us!" I for one am planning to escape.
On another note, can someone mirror this? They seem to be having trouble holding their servers up. It's high time server admin manuals contained a chapter on how to survive being slashdotted.
Geekism is your _only_ God!
Are you sure this isn't just a picture of his butt after he sat on one of his Star Wars action figures? (Don't call them DOLLS)
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
It looks like their are two spots where the lens was dirty. Seems like a long way to go for a picture and then forget to clean the lens...
hot jupiters ? spinning saturns ?
the title of the article seems more fit for a romance novel than a tech article. not bad for a change.
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Amazingly appropriate, considering that the very next Slashdot story is about Pink Floyd.
[For all you mystified young 'uns, Locke2005 posted the complete lyrics for Eclipse from Dark Side of the Moon.]
it's almost like a triple eclipse
but doesn't it looked like a TIE fighter?
Goatse avoid at all costs.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Warning: don't click on this if you don't want to go blind.
My employer's filter blocked it, but my retina is still scarred from the last time I clicked on something like this at home.
would be a video showing the ISS zip across the sun. (slowed down please! since the transit was less than one second) Good lord that man has good timing... (but I suspect he actually took a video of it and we're seeing a still - I mean who in their right mind would chance that with a single shudder click??)
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
The dimensions for ISS are 357 feet by 167 feet. A simple search for spy satellite yields this:
How can we tell a sun spot is a sun spot?
..to my new desktop background.
WALSTIB!
...the specs read: Takahashi FSQ-106ED refractor on EM-10 mount, Canon 5D mark II. 1/5000s exposure at 100 iso.
Just coming up with a random song reference doesn't do this justice. Neither does re-writing the song. Doing both, in PHP (with a ~20% saving on characters) is the only possible respectful post I can think of. Well done sir, good effort.<br><br>
// // // //
<?php
// "A Double Eclipse Is Quite Smart" by Geoff Robbins
// (Badly optimised PHP version)
// With heartfelt apologies to Steinman and Tyler
// For Thierry Legault http://www.astrophotographie.fr/eclipse110104_solar_transit.html
$short_turn="Orbiting, every now and then I get a little bit ";
$rabbits="Turnaround bright eyes";
$longturn="$rabbits, Patrick Moore is just the start...";
$need="And the sky ";
$forever="Monsieur Legault's quite bright<br>";
$time="Once upon a time";
$eclipse="That double eclipse is quite smart<br>";
$v1=array("curious when you line up<br>",
"tired of listening to astrology shit<br>",
"nervous that we won't see all the sci-fi ideas<br>",
"terrified and then I see the look in your eyes<br>");
for ($i=0;$i<4;$i++){echo $short_turn.$v1[$i];}
echo "$longturn<br>$longturn<br><br>";
$v2=array("restless and a dream that's quite insane<br>",
"helpless and I've got an idea that won't die<br>",
"angry and I know I've got to get on a plane<br>",
"terrified but then I see credit card bill<br>");
for ($i=0;$i<4;$i++){echo $short_turn.$v2[$i];}
echo "<br>$longturn<br>$longturn<br><br>";
$chorus="$need is out tonight<br>
$need will always be there<br>
And because of the speed of light<br>
None of it is actually there<br>
And none of it's particularly bright<br>
Except for random occultations<br>
On the face of the Sun<br>
The ISS a shadow on me as the Earth turns<br><br>
I'll take a damn good pic while standing in the dark<br>
We're living on a spaceship that's made out of quarks<br>
I'm pushing rhymes tonight<br>
$forever$forever<br>
$time I was falling in love<br>
But now I'm only falling apart<br>
There's nothing I can do<br>
$eclipse
$time there was light in my life<br>
But now there's only love in the dark<br>
Nothing I can say<br>
$eclipse<br>";
echo "$chorus<br>";
?>
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Thierry Legault knows this. The writer of the summary seems to be more interested in a sensationalist headline line than in accuracy.
The US government have made it clear that we have no inalienable rights; any we do not defend vigorously will be taken.
http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/eclipse110104_solar_transit_33.jpg
I stopped reading Slashdot in disgust at the article + comments last week.
Today I've come back. This is the kind of article I want to see! The comments are still 95% shit though.
Did anyone in London see the eclipse? Unfortunately, I wasn't aware of it until too late -- had I been, I'd have got up extra-early and taken a train out of London if necessary.
"No, it's a short-range fighter."
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...with their classic album "Double Eclipse".
I've never been more afraid of Canadia than I am now.
If they can put their flag on the sun whats to stop them from taking over the world.
That sure looks like the Canadian flag drawn on the surface of the sun...
Or is the ISS designed to cast a shadow in the shape of the Canadian flag?
Did you just arrive here today in a specially modified DeLorean?
Allusion to this pop culture smash hit - and then this one
Ugh, I hate the circles on the Sun where the colour changes from one hue to another. If this guy is such a great photographer can't he post a version with a decent colour depth?
The picture is now Astronomy Picture of the Day
I stopped after previewing the tinyurl (persistent cookie) revealed that it was an ow.ly link. The only reason anyone would need to double-hide the URL is to keep people from knowing what they’re about to visit.
Now, if I knew how to preview an ow.ly link, curiosity probably would have led me to at least see what it led to, but I don’t. So... meh. I tried using telnet to get the response but it seems to be blocked at the firewall somewhere.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Cue the Strauss.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
A double eclipse?! Whoa... what could it mean?
Cool -- way cool.
This is one of the cooler pictures I have seen in forever.
Astounding.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Mark Twain.
You jest, but check out The top-rated comments in this article. I know, I know, Daily Mail readers and science do not go well together, but seriously - the zoom in on the ISS proves that the photo is fake? The sun spots are birds? I despair, I really do...