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The Sun and the station

Shakeel Anwar from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Prominences dance around the limb of the Sun as the International Space Station crosses in front of the disk, imaged here in Hα with a 3.2-inch solar telescope. The imager took two 60-second videos with an astronomical camera — one to capture the transit and another to capture the rest of the disk.