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Recent images and videosMy best images and videos
    
January 2025: third occultation of Saturn!February 2011:
the shuttle mission STS-133 (Discovery) in 3D video

First and only ground-base image of astronaut in spacewalk by amateur telescope!
    
August 2024: occultation of Saturn with the ISS!The Moon in August 2016:
the largest and sharpest quarters ever!
    
May 2024: grazing occultation of Saturn by the Moon from Argentina!Indonesian volcanoes time-lapses, night and day
    
The Sunset from Rio de Janeiro
July 8th 2013:
The New Moon crescent

World record!
    
The occultation of Betelgeuse by the asteroid Leona of Dec 12 2023 from Alicante, SpainLunar transit of the ISS
Expedition 50 with French astronaut Thomas Pesquet
    
Huge prominence on Feb 12 2024Spain, May 16th 2010:
Atlantis and the ISS in front of the Sun
    
The lunar occultation of Venus, Nov 9 2023Switzerland, May 22nd 2010:
Atlantis and the ISS in front of the Sun
    
Jupiter, Io (and its shadow) & Ganymède on Oct 6 2023Very large prominences of April, May and September 2015-
    
The clearest lunar crescent ever, 12000 pixels wide!High resolution H-alpha solar images
with C11 HaT telescope
    
Saturn and 2 satellites in rotation during 40 minutes,
plus a spoke in the B rings
January 31st 2018: the lunar eclipse over Singapore bay-
    
High resolution solar granulation animation and pictures showing the Wilson and Evershed effects
August 2023
November 3rd 2017: the full Moon rises over the Empire State Building, New York-
    
Transit of the ISS in front of sunspots
during a spacewalk!
July 26th 2018 : the 4 bright planets (Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn), the Moon and the ISS filmed over Los Angeles
    
Jupiter, the Moon and Venus, February 22 2023Lunar images of August 2015-
    
The partial solar eclipse of Oct 25 2022
when the Moon hides a huge prominence
Lunar images of September 2015-
    
2 airplanes in front of the SunJune 3rd 2017: passage of the SpaceX CRS-11 Dragon filmed over France-
    
Jupiter & Saturn 2022 from the French Alps Astronomy in Puerto Rico: one night at the bioluminescent bay and a visit to the Arecibo radiotelescope-
    
Trip in Namibia: lunar eclipse, Namib desert, Etosha national park, Fish River canyonPhiladelphia, May 9th 2016:
solar transits of Mercury with the ISS and a plane
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Moonrise and Sunset at the Triumphal ArchIridium flares in real-time-
    
Moonrise and Moonset at the Eiffel tower
Florida, May 2009:
the shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble space telescope photographed for the first time in front of the Sun!
    
Noctilucent clouds over Paris, July 6 2022May 2017: the ISS marathon (4 passages in 1 night)-
    
Solar transit of the ISS with the Sigma Art 60-600 telephoto lensAugust 21st 2015:
transit of the ISS in front of a solar prominence
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 May 2 2022: Mercury, the Pleiades and the MoonThe Geminids 2015 in real time with Sony 7S
    
January 18 2022: my best lunar transit!Mai 13th 2015:
Iridium flare over Jupiter
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Thomas Pesquet, June 2021: the partial solar eclipse
and the installation of the new IROSA solar arrays
September 28th 2015:
transit of the ISS during the lunar eclipse
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The exceptional conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn
December 22 2020
June 2013:
Double transit of the Chinese Space Station
Tiangong-1 and Shenzhou-10
    
The occultation of Mars by the Moon from Portugal
September 6 2020
Spain, March 20th 2015:
transit of the ISS during the solar eclipse
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Mars in 3D stereo with the Pic du Midi 1-meter telescope
October/November 2020
21 July 21st 2011:
STS-135 (Atlantis),
the last images of a space shuttle in orbit!
    
The comet Neowise over the Mont St Michel
July 12 2020
Spy satellites (X-37B, Keyhole, Lacrosse)
    
ISS solar transits with the CFF200 refractor
June 2020
Florida, May 2009:
The launch of Atlantis

The last Hubble servicing mission!
    
The full crescent of Venus
June 2 2020
Two shadows in front of the Moon: the solstice 2010 eclipse over Mont-Saint-Michel and a transit of the ISS
    
 3 ISS transits (lunar and solar) without telescope !Gathering of Venus and the Moon
    
ISS lunar transit
April 4 2020
Juin 27th 2005:
Exceptional gathering of Venus and Mercury
    
2019 July 2nd: double eclipse from Argentina

APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day), August 5th!
Passage of the comet SW3 near M13
    
May 2019 : visit of the astronauts training center in Houston and meeting with 3 astronauts:

Donald Pettit, Steve Bowen and Thomas Pesquet
The solar flares of June 6, July 13 and 14 2005
    
Norway January 4 2019, geomagnetic storm G1 (Kp5): our most beautiful northern lights in 6 years in real time video!Solar activity on May 1 2005
    
Iceland, March 2019: photos of the mount Kirkjufell, day and nightThe transit of Venus of June 8 2004
    
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
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
    
    

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