Shuttle snapped up against sun Photos created in Photoshop?

The Sun newspaper posted photos of,  “NASA’S space shuttle Atlantis has been caught in a stunning snap silhouetted against the sun.” on their website http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2431157.ece.

They say the photos were taken by an “astronomer from his back garden.”   But, Elites TV would like the report that the photos could have just as easily been created from his laptop computer in Photoshop.

We would have liked to have seen how he took the photos and how he knew the Atlatnis would be passing the sun at that exact moment before they started to work on the Hubble.

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