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Recent images and videos My best images and videos
       
       
The occultation of Venus of Sept 14 2026...with photobomb by airliner February 2011: the shuttle mission STS-133 (Discovery) in 3D video:
an astronaut in spacewalk!
       
The total solar eclipse of August 12 2026 The Moon in August 2016:
the largest and sharpest quarters ever!
       
The largest first quarter ever (120 Mpixels)...with the new crater McGetchin! Indonesian volcanoes time-lapses, night and day
       
June 17 2026, conjunction of the Moon, Venus and M44
July 8th 2013:
The New Moon crescent

World record!
       
High resolution images in Ha, G-band & Ca K with the Soleye 300
Last update August 3 2026
Lunar transit of the ISS
Expedition 50 with French astronaut Thomas Pesquet
       
Timelapse of the immense prominence of May 23 2025 Spain, May 16th 2010:
Atlantis and the ISS in front of the Sun
       
Calculed passage of the ISS in front of sunspots! Switzerland, May 22nd 2010:
Atlantis and the ISS in front of the Sun
       
Magnificent Norwegian Northern Lights, January 2025 Very large prominences of April, May and September 2015 -
       
Spectacular solar flare on August 2 2024 January 31st 2018: the lunar eclipse over Singapore bay -
       
January 2025: third occultation of Saturn! November 3rd 2017: the full Moon rises over the Empire State Building, New York -
       
August 2024: occultation of Saturn with the ISS! July 26th 2018 : the 4 bright planets (Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn), the Moon and the ISS filmed over Los Angeles
       
May 2024: grazing occultation of Saturn by the Moon from Argentina! Lunar images of August 2015 -
       
Solar transits of Airbus A380 and a mysterious number! Lunar images of September 2015 -
       
The Sunset from Rio de Janeiro June 3rd 2017: passage of the SpaceX CRS-11 Dragon filmed over France -
       
The occultation of Betelgeuse by the asteroid Leona of Dec 12 2023 from Alicante, Spain Astronomy in Puerto Rico: one night at the bioluminescent bay and a visit to the Arecibo radiotelescope -
       
Huge prominence on Feb 12 2024 Philadelphia, May 9th 2016:
solar transits of Mercury with the ISS and a plane
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The lunar occultation of Venus, Nov 9 2023 Iridium flares in real-time -
       
Jupiter, Io (and its shadow) & Ganymède on Oct 6 2023
Florida, May 2009:
the shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble space telescope photographed for the first time in front of the Sun!
       
The clearest lunar crescent ever, 12000 pixels wide! May 2017: the ISS marathon (4 passages in 1 night) -
       
Saturn and 2 satellites in rotation during 40 minutes,
plus a spoke in the B rings
August 21st 2015:
transit of the ISS in front of a solar prominence
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High resolution solar granulation animation and pictures showing the Wilson and Evershed effects
August 2023
The Geminids 2015 in real time with Sony 7S
       
Transit of the ISS in front of sunspots
during a spacewalk!
Mai 13th 2015:
Iridium flare over Jupiter
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Jupiter, the Moon and Venus, February 22 2023 September 28th 2015:
transit of the ISS during the lunar eclipse
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The partial solar eclipse of Oct 25 2022
when the Moon hides a huge prominence
June 2013:
Double transit of the Chinese Space Station
Tiangong-1 and Shenzhou-10
       
2 airplanes in front of the Sun Spain, March 20th 2015:
transit of the ISS during the solar eclipse
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Jupiter & Saturn 2022 from the French Alps 21 July 21st 2011:
STS-135 (Atlantis),
the last images of a space shuttle in orbit!
       
Trip in Namibia: lunar eclipse, Namib desert, Etosha national park, Fish River canyon Spy satellites (X-37B, Keyhole, Lacrosse)
       
Moonrise and Sunset at the Triumphal Arch Florida, May 2009:
The launch of Atlantis

The last Hubble servicing mission!
       
Moonrise and Moonset at the Eiffel tower Two shadows in front of the Moon: the solstice 2010 eclipse over Mont-Saint-Michel and a transit of the ISS
       
Noctilucent clouds over Paris, July 6 2022 Gathering of Venus and the Moon
       
Solar transit of the ISS with the Sigma Art 60-600 telephoto lens Juin 27th 2005:
Exceptional gathering of Venus and Mercury
       
  May 2 2022: Mercury, the Pleiades and the Moon Passage of the comet SW3 near M13
       
January 18 2022: my best lunar transit! The solar flares of June 6, July 13 and 14 2005
       
Thomas Pesquet, June 2021: the partial solar eclipse
and the installation of the new IROSA solar arrays
Solar activity on May 1 2005
       
The exceptional conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn
December 22 2020
The transit of Venus of June 8 2004
       
The occultation of Mars by the Moon from Portugal
September 6 2020
The transit of Mercury - images and animations
       
Mars in 3D stereo with the Pic du Midi 1-meter telescope
October/November 2020
The annular eclipse of October 3 2005
       
The comet Neowise over the Mont St Michel
July 12 2020
The lunar eclipse of November 9 2003
       
ISS solar transits with the CFF200 refractor
June 2020
Comet Machholz and the Pleiades on January 7 2005
       
The full crescent of Venus
June 2 2020
Mars on 08/20/2003
       
  3 ISS transits (lunar and solar) without telescope ! The total solar eclipse of June 21 2001 from Angola
       
ISS lunar transit
April 4 2020
The crash of the comet SL9 on Jupiter in July 1994
       
2019 July 2nd: double eclipse from Argentina

APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day), August 5th!
September 17th 2006:
Transit of ISS and Atlantis in front of the Sun
       
May 2019 : visit of the astronauts training center in Houston and meeting with 3 astronauts:

Donald Pettit, Steve Bowen and Thomas Pesquet
   
       
Norway January 4 2019, geomagnetic storm G1 (Kp5): our most beautiful northern lights in 6 years in real time video!    
         
Iceland, March 2019: photos of the mount Kirkjufell, day and night      
         
January 21st 2019: the lunar eclipse from the Sully bridge, near Notre-Dame de Paris

...and a transit of the ISS just 2 hours before the eclipse