Professor Brian Cox on the International Space Station being a hoax (yes, that's a thing)

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5. Exactly, even ameteur astronomers are getting photos of it.

Amateur astrophotographer Dylan O'Donnell took the stunning photo on June 30 from Byron Bay in New South Wales, Australia, using a Canon 70D camera attached to the rear cell of a Celestron 9.25-inch (235-millimeter) telescope.

O'Donnell received an alert for the precise to-the-second timing of the space station's flyover online. He'd been waiting for a year for such an opportunity, O'Donnell wrote on his website.

"If you think that it might be a case of sitting there with your camera and a clock, with one hand on the shutter release, you’d be absolutely correct!" O'Donnell wrote. "The ISS only passed over the moon for 0.33 seconds as it shoots by quite quickly. Knowing the second it would pass, I fired a 'burst' mode of exposures, then crossed my fingers and hoped it would show up in review — and it did!

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