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ISS Transit of the Sun Animation, Chuck's Astrophotography

ISS Transit of the Sun Animation

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I managed to capture the International Space Station in transit across the sun today. I had a good view from my own backyard. Since I was using a Daystar Quark, an Orion ED80T CF scope, and ASI183MM camera - I wasn't able to capture the whole disk of the sun, but lucked out that my setup pointed to an area the ISS still passed through.

Out of over 1,000 images captured in the raw video, only 5 frames contained the ISS. The space station moves so fast, it transits the sun in less than 1 second. This animation is slowed down from it's real speed.

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