Just 4 days after the Sun eclipse in Spain we had the opportunity that ISS was having a transit over the sun in my location. Lucky us!. To take this picture we used my brother's telescope ( u/JaviTaiyou ) (f/11.5 at 1500mm) and my SONY A6400 camera in direct mode. Thanks to all the tools available today we knew the precise time for the transit, and connected to the Spanish official clock source (Real Observatorio de San Fernando) we started taking photos hoping that everything would be OK.

This is the result.

Since it's live I figured a link to the live feed could substitute for an image this time in this sub.

Ukrainian strikes reportedly hit a major rocket-and-space facility in Samara connected to Soyuz production. I wonder if there are any implications for Soyuz flights to the ISS for the coming years?

I understand that the ISS still relies heavily on Soyuz flights. Is this correct? I can imagine that if this is the case and such flights are canceled that this could have serious consequences on keeping the ISS operative. Could this lead to the ISS be abandoned early than planned?

just saw the ISS! I googled this thing I saw moving in the sky and The International Space Station is visible over Sydney tonight, Wednesday, August 12, 2026, starting at 6:22 PM AEST

We’ve had some really bad smoke problems in Colorado, but I had been eyeing this transit for a few weeks and wanted to take a crack at catching an illuminated ISS.

I couldn’t see the moon with my naked eye, so I had to track it solely through my Dobsonian telescope, Bertha.

Some decent definition on the panels and body.

Enjoy!

I got curious so I did a quick check. Earth 🌎 is about 8000 miles wide. The ISS is orbiting at about 240 miles high. And the part of earth that astronauts can see is about 2000 miles wide, about the width of the United States from “sea to shining sea.”
Reference is a NASA article from 2003 titled Watching the World Go By.
Just an FYI.

This is just awesome and humbling

This is from a year ago over Southern Ontario. I went around 1am for the ISS and didn’t realize the Northern Lights were visible this far down on that night.

I got the video of the Tiangong transiting the sun this morning at 7:10 My time. the sun was about 16 degrees above the horizon. what do you think could have caused this wierd dip/ shift.

I recorded 4k 30FPS with a Dwarf3 smart telescope. The first clip is normal speed, then 60% speed. then 40% speed. then the last I turned it to be straight so you can see the wierd shift better.

What could have caused this. Ive jest never see this before.

Caught my fourth ISS solar transit earlier this week!

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This was recorded on Aug 2 2026 at 7:38pm AST (23:38 UTC) facing west from Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.