Amateur Astronomer Captures Images of Atlantis & Hubble on face of sun

[Mike]

http://gizmodo.com/5255723/amateur-astronomer-captures-stunning-images-of-atlantis-hubble-in-the-face-of-the-sun

[Fay]

Is that amazing or what

[Tony G]

And this is the image the same astronomer took the day before.

http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=090515-shuttle-sun1-02.jpg&cap=In+this+tightly+cropped+image%2C+the+NASA+space+shuttle+Atlantis+is+seen+in+silhouette+during+solar+transit%2C+Tuesday%2C+May+12%2C+2009%2C+from+Florida.+This+image+was+made+before+Atlantis+and+the+crew+of+STS-125+had+grappled+the+Hubble+Space+Telescope.+Photo+Credit%3A+NASA%2FThierry+Legault

Sorry about the long link,

Tony G

[JohnP]

You could put through http://tinyurl.com

Your 393 characters becomes 25...

http://tinyurl.com/o88ssg

[Ian]

except if you look at that link it gives you pretty much all there is to tell you about the image, beside look at it

Tony if you'd cut the bit after the "&" it would still work, it'd just be missing a caption...

[Rick]

...or go to NASA's Flikr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/3532145692/

...and from there to the photographer's own site: http://www.astrophoto.fr/