Image taken by @TheVastReaches. According to the photographer, “It takes just a few minutes to collect all the frames. This started as 6 video files, 45,000 frames total. Then they are stacked and combined.”
ISS Looks Like a Toy
These animated gifs of The International Space Station look just like metal toys — but they are real. Each frame is taken with ground based amateur telescopes and then pieced together with common image software like Adobe Photoshop.
It is incredible to me that there are people who spend their lives denying space flight is real when all they need to do is look through a telescope to see it with their own eyes. You can’t explain ignorance like that. ;)
See more here at spacestationguys.com.