The Sun, Atlantis and Hubble - all in one!

The following images are fabulous!

The Sun, The Hubble Telescope and the Atlantis, all captured in one shot!

Silhouette of the space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope are seen against the giant Sun (in lower left hand corner). A prism used with camera to filter out sunlight made sun appear super yellow.

Zooming in the image, one can see the space shuttle Atlantis just above the Hubble!

Here only Atlantis is cruising along!

In 2009, Atlantis was on one of its space missions to repair the Hubble telescope for the last time. Down here on the earth, an amateur astronomer was set on his mission of photographing objects some 370 miles away, measuring about 13-35m in length, and traveling at 15,000 mph (miles per hour). And, to add to this list of super challenging parameters was the glaring sun!

According to Mr. Theirry Legault's interview posting with the Mail Online

"However, the greatest challenge was to chase a hole in the clouds that were numerous in the area because there are currently many thunderstorms over Florida. I had to take the photo just at the right instant."

Image Source:Thierry Legault -The astrophotographer who captured the impressive pictures of the Sun, Hubble and Atlantis.

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