The International Space Station transits across the Moon 😱 I am so blown away that I was lucky enough to capture this extremely rare event on camera. This doesn’t happen often! I think I may be the first person in New Zealand to capture this lunar transit. I have notifications set up on my phone to tell me when a pass of the ISS occurs in Auckland, and this one just happened to line up with the Moon. The actual transit happened so fast, literally over in the blink of an eye. I’m so grateful to be able to capture this, it’s been something I’ve wanted achieve since I started astronomy 4 years ago. Literally a once in a lifetime shot 📸! There are currently 6 people up there, traveling at over 7.6km a second as they work and live in station. The astronauts are Andrew Feutsel 🇺🇸, Richard Arnold 🇺🇸, @olegmks 🇷🇺, Serena Auñón-Chancellor 🇺🇸, @astro_alex_esa 🇩🇪, and Sergey Prokopyev 🇷🇺. Wave hello 👋🏼!

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