Jamie Cooper, 52, realised it was expected to be visible above his home in Whilton, near Daventry, Northamptonshire, on 17 June. Mr Cooper, a professional photographer and keen amateur astronomer, said he was in the right place at the right time.
“There’s a very narrow band where you, the space station and sun are all in a straight line and it’s about three miles wide,” he said. “I’d checked the data three days before and it was going to miss my house, I checked the day before and it was going to be over my house, so I was lucky.”
Mr Cooper said his very high speed video camera was shooting at 80 frames a second, compared to a normal camera speed of 25 frames.
He shot its “entire transit” across the sun at 10:22 BST, an event which lasted less than a second, using a telescope and a high speed video camera. “This was an opportunity not to be missed,” he said. “It’s important to say I use a specialist telescope with a filter because you should never look at the sun without a filter - it can lead to permanent blindness.”
Three cosmonauts and four astronauts are currently deployed on the station.
That’s an incredible photograph … and one which may never be repeated … 
Yes, having taken a few shots at the sun, I should probably invest in a filter ahem