ISS photobombs Utrecht man’s Milky Way self-portrait

Amsterdam based photographer Albert Dros managed to take a spectacular shot this weekend. He and a friend went to the Veluwe to take some pictures of the Perseid meteor shower and the Milky Way, and as if that was not spectacular enough, one of his photos was photobombed by the International Space Station. Dros describes the experience on his website PetaPixel. The two found a hill to use as a stage for some self-portraits in front of the Milky Way. "While I was shooting my friend, I noticed some kind of star slowly moving and disappearing. It looked like a star but it moved much slower." Dros writes. "It made a beautiful strike on my image though, along with some faint strikes from shooting stars from the Perseid shower." Once back at home Dros asked around on astronomy forums and Facebook to try and find out what the slowly moving object was. He discovered it was the International Space Station. The time of the photo and the position matched the ISS' location at that time. "That means I managed to make a self-portrait with the Milky Way, the Perseid shower AND the ISS all in a capture of only 20 seconds." This spectacular self-portrait has become somewhat of an internet sensation. It has been viewed more than 65 thousand times on Flickr. Photo embedded from Flickr: