An Arizona-based astrophotographer has pulled off what may be an unprecedented feat in photography: capturing a skydiver in free fall perfectly aligned with the surface of the sun.

Andrew McCarthy, who specializes in solar photography, coordinated with friend and YouTube personality Gabriel C. Brown to create the striking image on Nov. 8 in the Arizona desert.

The photo, titled “The Fall of Icarus,” required months of planning, complex mathematics and six attempts before the pair nailed the shot.

Immense planning and technical precision was required for this absolutely preposterous (but real) view: I captured my friend @BlackGryph0n transiting the sun during a skydive.

This might be the first photo of it's kind in existence. See a video of this moment in the reply 👇 pic.twitt

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