An Auckland amateur astro-photographer has managed to capture the moment the International Space Station (ISS) zoomed past the sun.
Stardome's Josh Kirkley snapped the spectacle from his Royal Oak home at 5.43pm yesterday.
Photographing the football field-sized space station in a single moment was exceedingly difficult, as it travelled over
28,000km/h as it orbited Earth around 400km above us.
He managed to capture it earlier this year when it passed in front of the moon, which took up just 0.00077 per cent of the night sky - an extremely small area relative to its size.
"The sun takes up the same amount of space in the sky as the moon, so it's just as hard, if not more, to capture this in front of the sun."
