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Recent images and videos My best images and videos
       
The exceptional conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn
December 22 2020
February 2011:
the shuttle mission STS-133 (Discovery) in 3D video

First and only ground-base image of astronaut in spacewalk by amateur telescope!
       
The occultation of Mars by the Moon from Portugal
September 6 2020
The Moon in August 2016:
the largest and sharpest quarters ever!
       
Mars in 3D stereo with the Pic du Midi 1-meter telescope
October/November 2020
Indonesian volcanoes time-lapses, night and day
       
The comet Neowise over the Mont St Michel
July 12 2020

July 8th 2013:
The New Moon crescent

World record!
       
ISS solar transits with the CFF200 refractor
June 2020
Lunar transit of the ISS
Expedition 50 with French astronaut Thomas Pesquet
       
The full crescent of Venus
June 2 2020
Spain, May 16th 2010:
Atlantis and the ISS in front of the Sun
       
  3 ISS transits (lunar and solar) without telescope ! Switzerland, May 22nd 2010:
Atlantis and the ISS in front of the Sun
       
ISS lunar transit
April 4 2020
High resolution solar granulation animation and pictures,
August 2018
       
2019 July 2nd: double eclipse from Argentina

APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day), August 5th!
Very large prominences of April, May and September 2015 -
       
May 2019 : visit of the astronauts training center in Houston and meeting with 3 astronauts:

Donald Pettit, Steve Bowen and Thomas Pesquet
High resolution H-alpha solar images
with C11 HaT telescope
       
Norway January 4 2019, geomagnetic storm G1 (Kp5): our most beautiful northern lights in 6 years in real time video! January 31st 2018: the lunar eclipse over Singapore bay -
       
Iceland, March 2019: photos of the mount Kirkjufell, day and night November 3rd 2017: the full Moon rises over the Empire State Building, New York -
       
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
July 26th 2018 : the 4 bright planets (Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn), the Moon and the ISS filmed over Los Angeles
       
    Lunar images of August 2015 -
       
    Lunar images of September 2015 -
       
    June 3rd 2017: passage of the SpaceX CRS-11 Dragon filmed over France -
       
    Astronomy in Puerto Rico: one night at the bioluminescent bay and a visit to the Arecibo radiotelescope -
       
    Philadelphia, May 9th 2016:
solar transits of Mercury with the ISS and a plane
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    Iridium flares in real-time -
       
   
Florida, May 2009:
the shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble space telescope photographed for the first time in front of the Sun!
       
    May 2017: the ISS marathon (4 passages in 1 night) -
       
    August 21st 2015:
transit of the ISS in front of a solar prominence
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    The Geminids 2015 in real time with Sony 7S
       
    Mai 13th 2015:
Iridium flare over Jupiter
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    September 28th 2015:
transit of the ISS during the lunar eclipse
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    June 2013:
Double transit of the Chinese Space Station
Tiangong-1 and Shenzhou-10
       
    Spain, March 20th 2015:
transit of the ISS during the solar eclipse
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    21 July 21st 2011:
STS-135 (Atlantis),
the last images of a space shuttle in orbit!
       
    Spy satellites (X-37B, Keyhole, Lacrosse)
       
    Florida, May 2009:
The launch of Atlantis

The last Hubble servicing mission!
       
    Two shadows in front of the Moon: the solstice 2010 eclipse over Mont-Saint-Michel and a transit of the ISS
       
    Gathering of Venus and the Moon
       
    Juin 27th 2005:
Exceptional gathering of Venus and Mercury
       
    Passage of the comet SW3 near M13
       
    The solar flares of June 6, July 13 and 14 2005
       
    Solar activity on May 1 2005
       
    The transit of Venus of June 8 2004
       
    The transit of Mercury - images and animations
       
    The annular eclipse of October 3 2005
       
    The lunar eclipse of November 9 2003
       
    Comet Machholz and the Pleiades on January 7 2005
       
    Mars on 08/20/2003
       
    Saturn with a webcam on 01/05/2003
       
    The total solar eclipse of June 21 2001 from Angola
       
    The crash of the comet SL9 on Jupiter in July 1994
       
    NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 01/29/01:
a plane in front of the Sun!
       
    September 17th 2006:
Transit of ISS and Atlantis in front of the Sun
       
    The occultation of Saturn of April 16 2002