Picture Of The Day - ISS and Endeavour Transitting Sun

Image captured by award-winning French astrophotographer Thierry Legault. Legault is an engineer who lives near Paris. He started his digital imaging in 1994, and currently uses a SBIG STL-11000M CCD camera with AO-L system that is equipped with large and narrow band filters. He also uses a reflex Canon 5D, webcams from Philips as well as Astrovid video cameras.

He has written two books: “The New Atlas of the Moon” with Serge Brunier (Firefly) and “Astrophotographie” (Eyrolles), and is featured in a new book by Robert Gendler, “Capturing the Stars: Astrophotography by the Masters.”

ISS-Endeavour Sun Transit

Originally published on Universe Today by Nancy Atkinson