Thierry Legault does it again

[Octane]

http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/STS-133.html

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[allan gould]

Freak

[MrB]

That is just crazy!

Any more resolution and we'd be able to see EV activity!

[[1ponders]]

gobsmacked, totally gobsmacked!!! :jawdrop: :eyepop:

[supernova1965]

I think I will quietly give up my ambitions in astrophotograpy how can anyone compete with that:confused2::eyepop::help:

I couldn't find the equiptment he is using anyone know

[AdrianF]

How do people image like this?

Adrian

[troypiggo]

How the? What the? With what?! From where?!! Absolutely amazing!

[DavidU]

OMG:eyepop:
Amazing stuff, the air was nice and still.

[Octane]

Modified 10" Meade SCT on a modified Takahashi EM-400, which is controllable by an RC plane/car remote control.

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[Waxing_Gibbous]

Son of a........!
Incredible.

[Kal]

Pretty impressive!

[seeker372011]

OMG

stunning

[deanm]

MrB - if you troll around the website, you'll find some pretty convincing images of a just-discernible astronaut conducting an EV...! (well, at least a white blob in the right place at the right time while an EVA was underway)

Dean

[renormalised]

Fantastic images!!!:):)

[multiweb]

He's even done it in 3D. Very cool footage. You can see the effect of the seeing as it comes in clear then back to blurry. Extreme imaging indeed. No doubt that a lot of the skills are the ones he's acquired in tracking the scope manually with so much practice. Beautiful stuff. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[rogerg]

That is quite increadable quality.

I wonder if NASA does similar video/photography of the ISS and what kind of resolution/quality they achieve in comparison.

[DavidTrap]

A freak of nature (and science)!

DT

[Ric]

What can you say about an image like that.

Blooming awesome

[Sylvain]

sick!!

[OICURMT]

Thierry is the master of catching Human Technology in Space. Look at some of his Shuttle against the solar disk shots... absolutely awesome.

My favorite image, shot in 2006... http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/iss_shuttle_crop.jpg

[gary]

Legault's work has never ceased to impress and this latest set of images
is amazing.

I fall into the group of individuals that have the otherwise useless ability to go
cross-eyed with minimal effort and I am finding the fused image particularly
compelling, more so than when I use red/blue glasses on the anaglyph.
So much so that the stereo pair creates the illusion of a razor sharp image
and rapidly uncrossing the eyes confirms that the individuals images appear
blurrier by comparison. So obviously the brain is doing some pretty fancy
image enhancement and sharpening based on what it expects to see.

I couldn't spot anything on the web site on how he produces the faux stereo
pairs. Curious to know what post processing was done, if any. Or are they simply
two identical images but the brain is taking 3D cues from the fact that they
are in the time domain? When one looks at the images when paused, the 3D
effect is not as apparent as when the images are being played, so is it simply
the brain interpolating what it expects to perceive?

[tonybarry]

He images at five metres focal length. Dawes Limit ??? It's for wimps.

Good to know it can be done ... by amateurs.

Regards,
Tony Barry

[OICURMT]

I was trolling around Thierry's site... found an image only Chris (hotspur) could appreciate.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0101/sunplane_legault_big.jpg

[MrB]

I noticed that too.. very cool.



If I were to try it(this means I have no idea! ;) ) I would try with the left and right eye images being from the same mono video stream, but one eye's view laging behind by one or two frames.
Because of the rotation of the subject, there would be a false parallax produced?