My favorite genre of astrophotography involving perfect alignment are photos of ISS transits over the Sun or Moon, e.g. [1], [2]. There is even a website which caluclates such transits [3]. Destin from "Smarter Every Day" made a video [4] about ISS transiting the Sun during an eclipse with all the details of preparations and setup.

1. https://petapixel.com/2023/06/13/photographer-captures-iss-c...

2. https://mashable.com/article/space-station-moon-transit-phot...

3. https://transit-finder.com/

4. https://youtu.be/lepQoU4oek4?feature=shared

They must have had incredible patience to wait millions of years until that mountain finally lined up with that cathedral.

They don’t explain how they took this photo, but I’m assuming they used the lens compression technique. In simple terms, the photographer takes a photo very far away from the foreground using a really long lens. This makes the background appear bigger, relative to the foreground.

Can I just say I love how 1995 the HTML for APOD is?

The mountain in the background looks a lot different than I expected and is actually the highest peak in this part of the Alps:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Viso

More on Wikicommons:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Monte_Viso

I wish there was an Android app that set the wallpaper to the current APOD

Wow.