Super-toxic moment when Atlantis and ISS pass through the Sun.

On the giant sun, the space shuttle Atlantis and the space station are no different from small ants.

A closer look can identify the sun panels and arrow-shaped shadows. It is an 'extraordinary' photograph of Thierry Legault photographer capturing the moment the space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station ISS pass right in front of the Sun.

The Atlantis and ISS spacecraft look like little specks in front of the Sun.

The 48-year-old photographer had to travel from France to Madrid, Spain to have an ideal position to observe the path of these two ships. In fact, this moment only displays in 0.54 seconds because the speed of the two spacecraft moves quite fast when flying across the sun.

'I came to Spain when the rest of Europe had a bad day. I had to stand 500 meters from the area where the phenomenon was seen and there was no second chance if I missed this moment , 'recalls Thierry Legault.

Close up of spacecraft when passing through the Sun.

More impressive when he had to accurately calculate the distance of two ships which were 402 km from the sun and moved at 7.4 km / sec or 26,554 km / h.

Mr. Legault caught the moment just 50 minutes before the space shuttle Atlantis landed at the ISS space station. Photo taken with wide light at 13h28 on 16/5 with SBIG ST-10XE frame camera and 14in telescope tube.

To ensure this "catch" of this "super-fast" moving ship in the sunlight that is directly exposed to the camera lens, the Legault has only allowed a small amount of light to pass through the shutter to close the tiny aperture Very fast shutter speed. In addition, due to the use of a good filtration system on the lens, there are almost no light rays around the Sun's rim in the image of Legault.

Author Legault and his photographic equipment.

The Atlantis is on a short-term flight, helping astronauts replace destroyed hot shielding. Six people in the crew were equipped with Russian antennas, a module and spare parts in case of other failures.

This is Atlantis' last trip before 'retirement'. Accordingly, the space shuttle Atlantis will return to Earth on May 26.

Source: Mail Online