{"id":37338,"date":"2011-07-24T15:43:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T15:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/atlantis-one-last-time-in-the-sun-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-07-24T15:43:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T15:43:55","slug":"atlantis-one-last-time-in-the-sun-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/atlantis-one-last-time-in-the-sun-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis, one last time in the Sun | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thierry Legault has done it again!™<\/p>

Thierry, an amateur astronomer from Belgium France, has had many of his amazing photographs grace this blog, and just yesterday I was wondering what he would get from the last Space Shuttle mission. As if on cue, he alerted me about his latest set of pictures<\/a>, including this amazing shot of Atlantis<\/em> moving across the face of the Sun:<\/p>

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This is a combination of four images, with the position of Atlantis<\/em> marked with circles. He took that shot in Germany just 21 minutes before the de-orbit burn<\/em>, meaning this may be one of the last images ever taken of an Orbiter actually in orbit (the picture I posted earlier today<\/a> taken from the space station shows Atlantis<\/em> as it was moving through our atmosphere, when it was no longer in orbit).<\/p>

A few days earlier, in the Czech Republic, Thierry captured Atlantis<\/em> and the ISS less than an hour after the Orbiter had undocked:<\/p>

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I marked the position of the two with an arrow; again, click to embiggen. You ...<\/p>

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