News:

UARS satellite a few days before reentry

STS-135 (Atlantis): the last images of a space shuttle in orbit!

April/May 2011: spy satellites (X-37B, Keyhole, Lacrosse)

May 2011: the shuttle mission STS-134 (Endeavour) in 3D video and solar transits

February 2011: the shuttle mission STS-133 (Discovery) in 3D video
First-ever ground-base image of astronaut in spacewalk!

January 4th 2011 : double solar eclipse : by the Moon and by the Space Station!

Two shadows in front of the Moon: the solstice 2010 eclipse over Mont-Saint-Michel and a transit of the ISS

Atlantis and the ISS in front of the Sun on May 22nd 2010 from Switzeland

Atlantis and the ISS in front of the Sun on May 16th 2010 from Spain

Passage of the space station in 3D video

The space shuttle Discovery during STS-131 mission

World record: photographed for the first time, the thin New Moon crescent of April 14th 2010!

The shuttle Endeavour and the ISS in front of the Sun on July 26th 2009

The shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble space telescope photographed for the first time in front of the Sun!

The launch of Atlantis on May 11th 2009

June 2009: Thierry Legault featuring in the new Robert Gendler's book: Capturing the stars, astrophotography by the masters

Astrophotographie available in English (The Art of Astrophotography) in late 2010


Click on the image to see more (in French)!

Feb 2008: Thierry Legault admitted in SBIG's Hall of Fame


Latest images
updated June 14 2009

The Sun in Calcium K on June 2nd 2009

The total lunar eclipse of March 3 2007: APOD of March 9!

NGC 4631 and NGC 4656

Cocoon nebula

M101


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Transit of ISS and Atlantis in front of the Sun

Lunar crescent of 4 days

Gathering of Venus and the Moon

Passage of the comet SW3 near M13

Full Moon

July 3 and 4 2006 sunspots

Exceptional gathering of Venus and Mercury of June 27 2005

The area of the Horsehead nebula

The annular eclipse of October 3 2005

The Last Quarter of November 24 2005 in detail

The solar flares of June 6, July 13 and 14 2005

Solar activity on May 1 2005

Comet Machholz and the Pleiades on January 7 2005

Mission in Angola May 2004 : nebulae, star clusters, galaxies...

The transit of Venus of June 8 2004

June 6 2004: Venus 36 hours before the transit!

The lunar eclipse of November 9 2003

October 28 2003: a white light flare!

Mars on 08/20/2003

The transit of Mercury - images and animations

Jupiter with a webcam on 03/06/2003

Saturn with a webcam on 01/05/2003

The planetary conjunction of May 2002 above Paris and Versailles

The occultation of Saturn of April 16 2002

Jupiter, the Great Red Spot and the shadow of Io on January 6 2002

The total solar eclipse of June 21 2001 from Angola

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 01/29/01: a plane in front of the Sun!

The crash of the comet SL9 on Jupiter in July 1994

The collimation

The solar flare of July 19 2000

Landscapes and astronomy