The International Space Station transiting the Sun as seen from Voorhees State Park in New Jersey on August 20, 2008. The entire transit took ½ second. The above image is a combination of three exposures that were separated by 0.2 seconds. ISS was 300 miles away moving from upper right to lower left.

The larger set of solar array wings can be seen as a rectangular shape at the top of ISS's silhouette. (See this NASA photo for a somewhat similiar view rotated 90° from orientation seen above.) The smaller set of solar array wings on the opposite end of the station are aligned to our line-of-sight and aren't visible. (They aren't being rotated awaiting joint repair.) The integrated truss structure that forms the main axis of the station appears vertical in the silhouette. The long stack of laboratory, control, and sevice modules that are perpendicular to the truss structure appear on the right. Compare this to the tranist of the Moon a month later.

Astro Phyiscs 155mm refractor at f7, Baader AstroSolar solar filter material, and a Canon 40D at ASA 200. Three 1/800 second exposures centered at 3:32:44 p.m. EDT. Photographed from Voorhees State Park, New Jersey. North is up. ©2008