Following some searching on the web, I've tried to identify the different parts of the ISS that (with a small stretch of the imagination!) can be seen in my image of a few days ago. The solar panels can be rotated to suit the sun's position relative to the station, and are shown at a slightly different angle between the two dates.
As a rough guide to image scale, the area covered by the four sets of solar panels is 361 ft wide x 240 ft long. The station was imaged at a distance of around 250 miles. As best as I can estimate it, the theoretical resolution on the original image works out at roughly10ft per pixel.
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