Space Station 3-D by Thierry Legault

by Nancy Atkinson on March 2, 2011

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The ISS and shuttle Discovery as captured -- and annotated -- by Thierry Legault

Run — don’t walk — to astrophotographer Thierry Legault’s website to see his latest incredible video of the International Space Station and a docked space shuttle Discovery. He sent us a note that he had great “seeing” from Weimar, Germany on Monday evening, where he has set up shop in order to capture the orbiting spacecraft as many times as possible during the STS-133 mission. The detail is stunning, — more detail even than his previous video from last weekend — as evidenced in the annotated image above. Legault has even created a 3-D movie — no special 3-D glasses required. He has instructions on his website of how to cross your eyes and squint to get the 3-D effect. “This method may require a bit of training if you are not used to squinting but it gives a very realistic view,” Legault explained. See the videos and find out how he creates these amazing views on his website.

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Nancy Atkinson is Universe Today's Senior Editor. She also is the host of the NASA Lunar Science Institute podcast and works with the Astronomy Cast and 365 Days of Astronomy podcasts. Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador.

  • Ted Judah

    Thierry Legault’s images and video are amazing and his they seem to get better with time. I was really happy to get a less resolved shot of the ISS and Discovery last time they were up together on STS-131. Thierry must be stoked with his great images of an historic event.

  • http://twitter.com/spaceguy87 spaceguy87

    How come we’re only annotating the Shuttle? There’s a lot of cool detail on the ISS as well! I might have to make my own annotated ISS version…

  • http://home.comcast.net/~jacobsdale/Myfishingbuddy.pps Aqua

    Now THAT is some awesome imaging Thierry! Thank you!

  • Olaf

    Must be fake since there are no stars. LOL

  • http://enduranced.wordpress.com/ Robin Andersson

    Anyone knows how much magnification that was used on this photo?

    • http://enduranced.wordpress.com/ Robin Andersson

      Or maybe it’s easier to ask how big ISS is in degrees~?

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