‘Once in a Lifetime’ Photo of ISS Crossing the Sun as Solar Flare Erupts https://petapixel.com/2025/06/20/once-in-a-lifetime-photo-of-iss-crossing-the-sun-as-solar-flare-erupts/ #internationalspacestation #astrophotography #solarprominence #AndrewMcCarthy #solartransit #solarflare #Spotlight #Features #Space #star #iss #sun

4 years ago today I photographed my first #InternationalSpaceStation #SolarTransit! #WillamOptics 70mm refractor fitted with a #ThousandOaks glass solar filter + #ASI120MC camera. The transits take less than a second so you need a fast frame rate to capture it. This is a stack of the 31 frames that contained the #ISS #ISSSolarTransit #ISSTransit