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Cough
Sep 30th, 2006, 01:39 AM
I was stunned by this photo of the space station and shuttle silhouetted against the sun. No its not photoshopped.

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/09/sunspot_636x700.jpg

Source (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=407636&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true)

newsflash
Sep 30th, 2006, 02:03 AM
Wow. Now that's a breathtaking picture!

bubble.tea
Sep 30th, 2006, 02:14 AM
meh...doesn't do it for me. It's pretty unique...but meh.

gei
Sep 30th, 2006, 03:07 AM
wow :-0 :-0

AnimeEd
Sep 30th, 2006, 03:11 AM
wow, that's a really hard to take pic
the space station move so quickly and only transitions the sit for a few seconds

aquariaguy
Sep 30th, 2006, 03:39 AM
Wow damn, I thought the sun rays would totally block out the spaceship.

mahpoaht
Sep 30th, 2006, 04:01 AM
What lens did they use to take this picture? Canon 1200mm?

Hybrid88
Sep 30th, 2006, 08:06 AM
Hey!! Something is in my beer dammit!

AnimeEd
Oct 1st, 2006, 06:26 AM
What lens did they use to take this picture? Canon 1200mm?

telescope with a solar filter, i am betting

runamuck
Oct 1st, 2006, 02:00 PM
Hey!! Something is in my beer dammit!

:D

plum dumpling
Oct 1st, 2006, 05:45 PM
Wow - Really puts things in perspective...

wilkens
Oct 1st, 2006, 07:08 PM
very cool, someone posted a link to the NASA picture database on here a while ago. Thats worth checking out as well if you like this kind of stuff.

mlc2000
Oct 1st, 2006, 09:10 PM
Hey!! Something is in my beer dammit!

^^ Now thats funny !!

shabby
Oct 1st, 2006, 09:42 PM
I was stunned by this photo...

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/2478/sunxx0.jpg

Sylvestre
Oct 1st, 2006, 10:01 PM
cool!

Evil Techie
Oct 1st, 2006, 10:34 PM
I was stunned by this photo...

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/2478/sunxx0.jpg

ah nice
hey is that the canadarm?
lol