I did a time lapse video of the International Space Station crossing in front of the Sun on the morning of August 8th, 2025. I used my Celestron telescope and Canon camera to record this event, and it took about 30 frames to create this video. 🔭📷
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The International Space Station (ISS) is a large, habitable artificial satellite orbiting Earth, primarily used as a microgravity research laboratory. It's a collaborative project involving multiple space agencies from the US, Russia, Japan, Canada, and several European countries. The ISS is the most expensive single structure ever built, costing around $160 billion.
Here are some fun facts about the ISS:
Size and Speed: The ISS is about the size of a football field and weighs nearly a million pounds. It orbits Earth at a speed of 17,500 mph, completing an orbit every 90 minutes, meaning astronauts see 16 sunrises and sunsets daily.
Continuous Occupation: The ISS has been continuously inhabited since November 2000, making it one of the longest-running human outposts in space.
Research: It serves as a unique microgravity research laboratory, conducting experiments that cannot be done on Earth.
Visibility from Earth: The ISS is the third-brightest object in the sky (after the Moon and Venus) and can be seen with the naked eye.
Unique Living Conditions: Astronauts live and work in a space slightly larger than a six-bedroom house, complete with a gym and a bay window for viewing Earth.
Building the ISS: It took 42 assembly flights, using different types of spacecraft, to build the station.
Space Oddity: In 2013, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded the first music video in space, David Bowie's "Space Oddity".
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