Solar transits like this are tricky for me since I live in Arizona. The sun is only high enough for a "good one during the summer- when temps are always extremely high. According to the thermometer in my car it was 121°F outside when I got this shot. To mitigate the effects of the heat, I brought ice packs and thermoelectric coolers to help keep the telescopes and computers from overheating.
I captured this using multiple telescopes designed to safely filter out the sun's light while allowing the chromosphere, the details in the atmosphere, to come through. This shot is also a tight crop of the whole photo. You can see the uncropped version of it showing the scale of the iss against the sun on my website.
![image showing I just captured a once-in-a-lifetime photo of the ISS transiting the sun while it was flaring [OC]](9b8b555b-d629-53b1-acfd-4809b137c150.jpg)
ajamesmccarthy on June 19th, 2025 at 18:13 UTC »
Solar transits like this are tricky for me since I live in Arizona. The sun is only high enough for a "good one during the summer- when temps are always extremely high. According to the thermometer in my car it was 121°F outside when I got this shot. To mitigate the effects of the heat, I brought ice packs and thermoelectric coolers to help keep the telescopes and computers from overheating.
I captured this using multiple telescopes designed to safely filter out the sun's light while allowing the chromosphere, the details in the atmosphere, to come through. This shot is also a tight crop of the whole photo. You can see the uncropped version of it showing the scale of the iss against the sun on my website.
icygamer598 on June 19th, 2025 at 18:25 UTC »
This is so fucking cool.
Brat-Sampson on June 19th, 2025 at 19:22 UTC »
Time to spend another 5 hours trying to land on the sun station