In 2018, my friends, Vladimira Krskova and Marian Runkas, and I traveled to Rhodes Island in Greece to enjoy the century’s longest eclipse of July 27th. I made a lovely portrait of them gazing at the unique phenomenon. This year, on 7 September 2025, they decided to celebrate that special moment and their love for…
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They were amazing. They just wanted a photo for their wedding announcement. Original, unique, perfectly celebrating their happiness. They didn’t want to be recognized in the photo, they just wanted to be a part of it so that the giant, if not infinite Universe above them would be the perfect metaphor for their love. Taken…
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As the recent total lunar eclipse on Sept. 7, 2025, occurred during the dusk over Záhradné, eastern Slovakia, I wanted to demonstrate the cause of colors in the Earth’s shadow more clearly than before. This time-lapse mosaic shows the entire totality from right to left. As we know, the sky is blue due to Rayleigh…
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La Mano del Desierto, Hand of the Desert, Desert Hand. A unique 11-meter reinforced concrete sculpture located about 62 km south of the Chilean city of Antofagasta, was built in 1992 by the now 85-year-old sculptor Mario Irarrázabal Covarrubias and attracts hundreds to thousands of tourists from all over the world every day. It is…
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Yes, also I am now one of the lucky people who witnessed of beauty of the largest salt flat in the world, the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. At 10582 square kilometers of 3700 meters above the sea level, is nothing but natural salt and very little water, which can work beautifully as a large natural…
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On 14 March 2025 a total lunar eclipse occurred especially over Americas and Pacific Ocean. I was pleased to make my observation of this particular eclipse from NSF Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile. Colors in the Earth’s shadow were vivid, including the turquoise effect at the start and even end of the eclipse (where primarily…
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Back in November 2024, I witnessed an unusual equatorial view: In the morning sky just before dawn, the planet Jupiter appeared in a seemingly pyramid shape of two sky belts, the Zodiacal Light and the Milky Way. The image from Soneva Jani Island, Maldives (where I was invited as visit astronomer for a short term),…
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