Spacewalking Astronauts Seen With a Backyard Telescope

[Archer17]

Apologies in advance if I missed this being posted elsewhere. I came across this and thought it was cool:

From wired.com's Alexis Madrigal:

With a big enough telescope and some good fortune, an amateur astronomer can look into the sky and see humans at the space station...

The story, including pics/video can be found here.

 

[Captain_Salty]

Very cool. 10 points to anyone who can photograph a spacewalker as they transit the sun, from the observers location

 

[andrew_t1000]

That's great!
I saw the ISS a few weeks ago and with the naked eye I could see 2 bright "blobs" joined by a thin bright line!
Because of Murphy's Law I didn't get my camera out of the bag and turned on, until after the ISS went behind trees!