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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DJU9" data-source="post: 10825752" data-attributes="member: 44472">The stellar images of Atlantis racing past the sun                           Just  20 minutes before re-entering Earth's atmosphere, these amazing images  show the Atlantis space shuttle as it hurtles across the face of the  sun. But they weren't taken by Nasa, nor by a professional astronomer using multi-million pound equipment. Instead, the photos, clearly showing the tiny silhouetted outline of the  shuttle in front of the sun, were captured by an amateur photographer  standing in his back garden. Even more  incredibly, French photographer Thierry Legault had only 0.9 seconds to  get his shot - but still managed to capture the spacecraft four times as  it travelled at 7.8km per second <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/16/article-2026577-0D72B62A00000578-777_964x964.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> He  attached a camera to a telescope trained on the sun - with a solar  filter to help prevent its powerful rays destroying the equipment. Mr Legault sat patiently waiting for over an hour, readying himself to  capture the image in the Emden area of Germany on July 21. The 49-year-old engineer said: 'What you see in the photos is the  Atlantis space ship passing in front of the sun, therefore you see just a  silhouette. 'Good transits last less than one second, and the best ones maybe less than half a second. 'It is a kind of game or challenge and the pleasure and the adrenalin remain the same each time.'                           <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/16/article-2026577-0CDF12F500000578-715_964x709.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/16/article-2026577-0D72B9D900000578-715_964x616.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> This composite image was taken on July 15 and shows Atlantis docked  at the International Space Station as it passes in front of the sun<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/D.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" data-shortname=":D" />                   </blockquote>

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