WIth the right kit you can photograph the ISS from your backyard!
See the video Dirk Ewers in Germany made from +/-2000 photos of the ISS as it passed overhead
http://www.dlr.de/blogs/en/DesktopDefault.aspx/tabid-5921/9755_read-373/
(http://bruce.org.uk/images/dirkewers.jpg)