Space is the place
Atlantis captured in solar transit with a solar-filtered Takahashi 5" refracting telescope and a Canon 5D Mk. II.
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"The remarkable thing is that the Sun looks like a smooth ball in this photo. No ..."
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"The full sized version is very nice. You can see the blurring of individual see..."
"@kaiza "Space is the place / with the helpful hardware man." (a riff on the Ac..."
"@kaiza "Space is the place / with the helpful hardware man." (a riff on the Ac..."
""The thing's hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God—it's full of stars!"..."
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"The ongoing lack of sunspots is really disturbing. It really gives the photo an..."
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zuzu
#1 – 10:26 AM May 17, 2009
Hasn't he heard of Creative Commons licensing?
(This could be mirrored on the Wikimedia Commons and the Internet Archive.)
Rob Beschizza
#2 – 12:07 PM May 17, 2009
I've emailed Legault to check.
michael_05
#3 – 12:48 PM May 17, 2009
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5_0iZQ-TuA
dculberson
#4 – 1:41 PM May 17, 2009
That is beautiful.
strider_mt2k
#5 – 4:57 PM May 17, 2009
The cosmic ballet...continues.
pyrotmaniac
#6 – 8:56 PM May 17, 2009
Cannon 5D with a 5 incher? I am now going to have to get a telescope and set my Nikon D60 up for some of the strange phenomena that you can see in back country alaska! I cant wait.
winkybb
#7 – 11:26 PM May 17, 2009
New levels of awesomeness (for which there is no charge). Truly a directory of wonderful things.
Rico
#8 – 1:27 AM May 18, 2009
Let's hope Mr. Legault has moved on from what's written here: "According to laws about image property, a link to this page is allowed but any public use (web site, television, magazine etc.) of one of these images is possible only after explicit consent of the author. Any violation will be subject to prosecution."
Then again, he did post it on Flickr, right?
pAULbOWEN
#9 – 7:21 AM May 18, 2009
Stunning, thanks for sharing.
Avi Solomon
#10 – 7:50 AM May 18, 2009
I like this one better:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/3531410377/sizes/o/in/set-72157617823159021/
kaiza
#11 – 8:57 AM May 18, 2009
All I can think about when I read "Space is the place" is "the bird is the word"
strider_mt2k
#12 – 9:47 AM May 18, 2009
CRAP!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184
kc0bbq
#13 – 10:09 AM May 18, 2009
The ongoing lack of sunspots is really disturbing. It really gives the photo an eerie quality.
mdh
#14 – 10:19 AM May 18, 2009
"The thing's hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God—it's full of stars!"
mdh
#15 – 10:21 AM May 18, 2009
@kaiza
"Space is the place / with the helpful hardware man."
(a riff on the Ace Hardware ad campaign, an admittedly regional reference)
I like your thing better though.
b-b-b-b-b-b-mao-mao
mdh
#16 – 10:22 AM May 18, 2009
@kaiza
"Space is the place / with the helpful hardware man."
(a riff on the Ace Hardware ad campaign, an admittedly regional reference)
I like your thing better though.
b-b-b-b-b-b-mao-mao
Vnend
#17 – 11:24 AM May 18, 2009
The full sized version is very nice. You can see the blurring of individual seeing cells as you pan across it.
I have taken and seen quite a few solar pictures, and this one is very nice, both technically and for the content.
Rocky Frisco
#18 – 11:51 AM May 18, 2009
The remarkable thing is that the Sun looks like a smooth ball in this photo. No sign of any sunspot activity. I can't recall any time in the past when this was so. This simply must have some kind of important effect on Planet Earth. This is a radical change in the way things are.
Tony Corman
#19 – 2:41 PM May 18, 2009
"Ever since the beginning of time, Man has longed to destroy the Sun."
Adam Stanhope
#20 – 4:57 PM May 18, 2009
There has been a spate of "Space is the Place" references over the past couple of weeks.
When I hear it, I think of Sun Ra and his Arkestra.
You can see an increase in Google searches for "Space is the Place" of late in Google Trends:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=space+is+the+place&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2009&sort=0
Is something wonderful about to happen?
John Kannarr
#21 – 6:58 PM May 18, 2009
I'm pretty sure that the lack of sunspots is caused by global warming ... didn't I see that in Gore's junkumentary? Oh, wait! Maybe there's some other causal relationship, because it appears there's been cooling going on the last few years. Maybe there ought to be some actual science going on to investigate any possible correlation ...