Skies above!

I was tempted to use the line “Set your controls for the heart of the sun”, but a British newspaper has already done that.

But here’s a link to an amazing photograph which has been zipping around the world for the past few days.

http://www.skynyx.fr/legault/atlantis_hst_transit.html

It was taken by amateur French astrophotographer Thierry Legault, using a Canon EOS 5D mark II with Baader solar filters over his telescope. Despite some of the bogus news reports out there, which presumably hire chimpanzees for fact checkers, he did not take the photo from his back garden in France - he flew to Florida specifically to take the shot, since that’s where the proper lining up of things would occur.