Laurent Langelez is a French astrophotographer based in northern France. Late April he sent us the following images of the solar Granule: Time: 10:10 local time on 04.18.2010 Newton 254mm, Filter AstroSolar Photocontinuum + uv-ir, DMK 31AU03.AS, Barlow x2 1.6 Software: Multipoint Registax5 Many thanks to Laurent!

Launched on April.05, Space Shuttle Discovery and its seven crew members have successfully accomplished Mission STS-131, and returned to earth safely on April.19. Discovery successfully undocked from ISS on April.17, and was preparing for landing on April.18, when Laurent Langelez captured the following images of the Space Shuttle. These images of Discovery were taken at [...]

This is a Sunspot Image captured by Laurent Langelez on April.01, 2010. The image provides us a detailed view on Sunspot 1057. Laurent took it with Newton 254mm AstroSolar telescope, DMK 31AU03.AS astro camera, UI-IR Continuum Baader filter, and TeleVue Barlow Powermat x4. He also used Registax5 and Photoshop for image processing. Thank you Laurent [...]

The following Sun Images are submitted by French astronomy photographer Laurent Langelez. Laurent took these images on Jan.17 in Ramicourt, France. You will open the original images by clicking the zoomed ones above. Laurent‘s gears: Equinox 80mm refractor on EQ6. Astrosolar densité photo filter and Cotinuum Baader filter Registax5 + Photoshop Merci Laurent!

French astronomy photographer Laurent Langelez captured this image of Mars on Jan.09, 2010. The camera he used is DMK 31AU03.AS. His email is roughly translated as below: Picture of Mars taken in -12 ° c. Newton Kkywatcher 254mm on EQ6, Barlow x2 + Barlow x1,6 Astronomik red filter DMK 31AU03.AS Software: Registax5 Encountered the problem [...]