This early morning’s (22 June, 2026) stormy weather over southern Slovenia and Italy was pretty active. While observing from Ústupky, Czech Republic a beautiful, at 21:56 UTC, the elusive Red Sprite appeared above a strong thunderstorm, which was located about 530 km far from me, just under the majestic Milky Way! Their typical red color…
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The last night of my 2025 stay at Cerro Pachón Observatory on (4-5 May 2025), where astronomers at Vera C. Rubin Telescope just started their amazing work, I tried to finish my longer-term photography project. The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) photography, which I actually started days sooner in Bolivia. As NOIRLab says: Cerro Pachón is a…
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The last night of my current stay at Cerro Pachón Observatory on (4-5 May 2025), where astronomers at Vera C. Rubin Telescope just started their amazing work, I tried to finish my longer-term photography project. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) photography, which I actually started days sooner in Bolivia. As NOIRLab says: The LMC is…
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Discovered in September 2025, the comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) seems to be promising a nice comet of April 2026. I was also lucky to see this beautiful one. Its path nearby the Sun (with perihelion of 19th April 2026) and the Earth then (with perigee on 26th October 2026) brought several truly unusual moments in…
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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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