"Transit of Sol"
One evening earlier this week after work, my wife and I piled my tripods, trackers, and cameras into our car and drove about 20 miles north of our house. Upon arrival, I double-checked our coordinates and started setting up in a city park between a few baseball fields. My solar telescope and camera pointed at the sun (properly filtered, of course, with Baader solar film).
Then I waited for an event to happen that would only last 1.11 seconds... the Transit of the International Space Station between our little spot and the Sun. I followed the ISS on my star tracker app as it rose invisibly through the bright, mostly sunny, daytime sky. Then, before I could even cry, "There it is," it had streaked across the sun and back into invisibility, leaving me to shout, "There it goes." I got it, though! On both on my camera and my solar telescope! On my high-speed telescope camera, I got 117 frames and on my regular camera 67 frames. 1.11 awesome seconds of an object hurtling through orbit around the earth, a 'mere' 457.2 miles away, passing between us and our neighbor Sol, a 'mere' 94 million miles away.
One video is real time, one is slowed down, and the image is a composite of 34 of those frames!
Canon R7 with Sigma 150-600mm + Baader Solar Film
Lunt 40mm Solar Telescope with ZWO ASI432MM
