This noon, on 2 August 2026, I got extremely lucky in Chloumek, Czech Republic. I captured the International Space Station in front of the Sun at a very short-term hole in the clouds just by the current large sunspots AR 4495 and AR 4500. I was actually about to give up today. But I did…
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This forenoon on 8 June 2026, I got extremely lucky in Prasek, Czech Republic. I captured a plane and the International Space Station in front of the Sun at the same time (same shot). It was not planned. And the chance was truly extremely low. Knowing the angular size of the Sun, the duration of…
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On May 21st, 2026, the clear skies offered me another successful photography of the International Space Station (ISS) transit in front of the Moon. Taken from Tuněchody, Czech Republic, as a sequence on a 10-inch Dobsonian Telescope, when ISS was about 722 km far from me and the whole transit took less than 1 second.…
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On August 13th, 2025, the clear skies offered me another successful photography of the International Space Station transit in front of the Sun. Taken from Habřinka (by Lázně Bohdaneč), Czech Republic, as a sequence on a 10-inch Dobsonian Telescope, when ISS was about 507,96 km far from me and the whole transit took only 0.65…
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On June 14th, 2025, the clear skies offered me another successful photography of the International Space Station transit in front of the Sun. Taken from Hranice (u Chotěboře), Czech Republic, as a sequence on a 10-inch Dobsonian Telescope, when ISS was about 467,9 km far from me and the whole transit took only 0.59 seconds.…
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Last days the International Space Station (ISS) prepared several beautiful transits in front of the morning crescent Moon over Central Europe. I was lucky with one of these beautiful, even if very elusive moments, too. While observing from Jetonice, Czech Republic, on Thursday, August 29th, 2024, the Moon was covered by a thin layer of…
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Today, on June 3rd, 2023, the clear skies offered me another successful photography of the International Space Station transit in front of the Sun. Taken from Uhlířov, Czech Republic, as a sequence on a 1.1m telephoto lens, when ISS was about 508.9 km far from me and the whole transit took only 0.73 seconds. Lots…
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