It’s a great pleasure to share a composite image from my fourth ISS solar transit capture! The transit occurred in Legnago (Verona) on the 18th of April 2026 at 9:57 UT. The duration was less than a second, and the ISS was 534 km away travelling with a speed of 26600 km/h! A lonely cloud was covering the Sun, but luckily went away just a few seconds before the transit!
The employed photographic setup was:
– Acuter Elite Phoenix 40mm solar telescope with the etalon removed, thus becoming a 80/400 mm standard telescope
– Antlia dual band 2″ ERF
– Baader TZ-3s telecentric lens
– ND3 filter
– Fujifilm X-T30 mirrorless camera shooting at 30 FPS with 1/4000 sec exposure time.
This is a composite image with a stack of the Sun (just after the ISS transit) and all the 24 ISS captures during the transit.
