Thierry Legault

Big Sunspot; Little Chinese Space Station

May 13, 2012

Astrophot0grapher extraordinaire Thierry Legault has made a name for himself with his images of spacecraft transiting across the face of the Sun. He has done it again by capturing the first-ever image of the Tiangong-1 space station transiting the Sun. The monster sunspot, AR 1476 absolutely dwarfs the Chinese space station (inside the circle), but [...]

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How to Avoid ‘Bad Astrophotography:’ Advice from Thierry Legault

March 2, 2012

Take a look at the collection of images above. All are high resolution astrophotos of different artificial satellites, taken by renowned astrophotographer Thierry Legault, using one of his 10″ telescopes and a simple webcam. The images have been sharpened and enlarged so that it’s easy to see small structures on the satellites such as antennas [...]

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Thierry Legault: Astrophotography is an ‘Adrenaline Rush’

March 1, 2012

During one of the final space shuttle missions, photographer Thierry Legault traveled nearly 4,000 km across various locations in Europe to try and capture the shuttle docked to the International Space Station as the two spacecraft transited across the surface of the Sun. “Essentially, I was trying to catch the clear sky so I could [...]

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Video: Thierry Legault Captures the ROSAT Satellite Just Before Re-Entry

October 19, 2011

I was waiting for this, and I know our readers have been looking forward to seeing astrophotographer Thierry Legault’s images of the ROSAT satellite as it heads towards its uncontrolled re-entry through Earth’s atmosphere to its ultimate demise. Legault took a series of images on October 16, 2011 from France and combined them into a [...]

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Must See Video: Falling NASA UARS Satellite Observed While Still in Orbit

September 20, 2011

The huge Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) will be plummeting to Earth in an uncontrolled re-entry this week, but here’s an incredible video from astrophotographer extraordinaire Thierry Legault who shot footage of UARS with his 14-inch telescope. Legault was in Northern France (Dunkerque) last week to attempt to capture views of the satellite, and had [...]

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Backyard Science: How You Can Make a Difference

September 8, 2011

It’s a great time to be an amateur astronomer!  Nowadays, “backyard” astronomers armed with affordable CCD imagers, high-quality tracking mounts, inexpensive PC’s and the internet at their fingertips are making real contributions to Astronomy science. How are people in their backyards contributing to real science these days?

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A Space Shuttle On the Sun, One Last Time

July 22, 2011

If you’re like me, you were probably wondering if photographer Thierry Legault would have the opportunity to photograph space shuttle Atlantis in orbit during the final mission of the shuttle program. Regular UT readers will recall that Legault has taken several amazing images of the space shuttle and International Space Station from the ground with [...]

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Spying on Spy Satellites with Thierry Legault

June 21, 2011

Shhhh! Don’t tell anyone, but we’ve got pictures….. ground-based pictures of secret spy satellites in Earth orbit. We’re not revealing our sources, but … oh wait, I guess we might as well tell you. Even if we didn’t reveal our source, you’d probably guess that astrophotographer extraordinaire Thierry Legault — who has been sharing his [...]

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Thierry Legault’s Incredible Ground-Based Views of Endeavour’s Final Flight

June 6, 2011

Award-winning French astrophotographer Thierry Legault traveled through Germany, France and Spain during Endeavour’s final mission to find clear skies and good seeing to capture the shuttle’s voyage to the International Space Station. While he told us it wasn’t easy, the results are incredible! The visible detail of the shuttle and parts of the International Space [...]

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Space Station 3-D by Thierry Legault

March 2, 2011

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 [...]

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International Space Station on the Moon?

December 29, 2010

From our vantage point on Earth, it takes just a half second for the International Space Station to fly across the face of the Moon, so catching a transit is tricky. But award-winning French astrophotographer Theirry Legault captured an amazingly sharp and detailed transit image that makes the ISS look like it is sitting on [...]

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Incredible Image: Atlantis and ISS Transit the Sun

May 21, 2010

Here are some incredible images of Atlantis and the International Space Station captured as it transit the Sun. You can also view space from where you are. You just need a good telescope for that. Take a look at these cool and amazing telescopes from Amazon.com. French astrophotographer Thierry Legault has done it again. He [...]

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