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I <3 Hubble. I hope this mission is successful.
I’m totally ganked for this mission and have been following the rss feed. Nerdgasm.
Best, best best of luck to them all; great job so far.
Check out this pic of the sun, taken by astronomer Thierry Legault with a five inch telescope in Florida, yesterday:
http://www.astrosurf.com/legault/atlanti…
Make sure to zoom in on that speck near the bottom left of the sun — it’s the Space Shuttle Atlantis, caught transiting the sun in high orbit. The dark object next to the Shuttle is Hubble!
oh all the nerds thank you! yeah, i’m on tenterhooks and this is so awesome.
Goddamn, astronauts are cool.
@3: That is SO COOL! Thanks!
@3:
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Wow!
I wonder what kind of filter Legault had to use to get that image?
joe @ 7, NASA’s writeup on Flickr says “Thierry made this image using a solar-filtered Takahashi 5-inch refracting telescope and a Canon 5D Mark II digital camera.”
That’s waaaay more low-fi than I had imagined.
Has anyone here ever made a Dobsonian telescope? I saw a special about John Dobson the other day, and I really want to make one.