Ground control to Major Tom


  • Photographer
    Jakob Andersen
  • Prize
    Nature Photographer Of the Year
  • Company/Studios
    Clearsky Astrofoto
  • Date of Photograph
    11/04/2026
  • Technical Info
    300 milliseconds, Gain 200, ASI174mm Pro through quark daystar filter, on 480/80mm - 2.7x barlow

The ISS international space station in front of the sun. The sun is shot here in H-Alpha wavelength, through my telescope to which a quark daystar solarfilter was mounted with the camera behind. The lineup was not easy - From where I live, there was only one place on the map where I could get power to my telescope - So I packed up and drove 20km to this spot and set up my kamera and scope. This location was almost perfectly on the centerline for the passing. I was in good time, and spent almost an hour setting fokus multiple times as the scope got hotter. And, in an instant the ISS passed.

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