This is amazing...

[RichardC27]

All of you who've been on Flickr this morning may already have seen this, but I thought it was worth sharing. I've no idea how this would be taken from Earth, but IMHO it's one of the best and most powerful photos I've seen in a long time.

Clicky here

 

[ROFL2K9]

That is unbelieveable! Amazing even

 

[ppp]

WOW, that is sooo cool!!!

 

[melevo]

WOW!!

 

[andy_fozzy]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pjnelson/3535628064/

 

[Twentyten]

 

[wavefront]

It made it to the front page of the Times newspaper this morning - one of the reasons I ended up buying the paper - Though photographically, I prefer the crop the Times used

It's the third or fourth time that the Times have used a brilliant / stunning picture on their front page other than something which is directly news based.

Mark.

 

[cyclone]

PMSL

 

[StewartR]

If you think that's amazing, you should see some other examples of this guy's work:
Solar transit of Space Shuttle and International Space Station
Solar transit of Space Shuttle and Hubble telescope

 

[kitten]

Lots of 'Wow's' in here. Let me add mine.

WOW!!

 

[andy_fozzy]

WOW

 

[davekiddle]

Wow!

 

[B_M]

Very impressive.

Wonder doe NASA shoot Canon or Nikon ...

 

[RichardC27]

Very impressive.

Wonder doe NASA shoot Canon or Nikon ...

If you click on the full size, uncropped image of the entire sun it tells you he uses a Canon EOS 5D MkII through a telescope.

 

[Naboo32]

:| Hmm, not bad.

Shame that he used a Canon though. If he'd gone for the Nikon D700 instead, there'd be far less grain where he's so obviously bumped up his ISO .

 

[DTM]

ISO 100 iirc.