Even if the human eyes are not enough sensitive for the colors in night nature, it doesn’t mean the colors are faded away. In this surrealistic scene, rounded pier lies on colorful landscape of the Yellowstone National Park, US. The vivid (in the picture mostly red-orange) colors are the result of microbial mats around the…
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Over the valley of Atacama Desert, seen from ESO La Silla observatory on 16 November 2017, our Milky Way galaxy is going to set. From its bulge, a dim arc of zodiacal light takes a place in the dark Chilean sky with four more galaxies seen on this panoramatic picture. Two of them, the Magellanic…
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Where do the red flames over the horizon come from? Well, let me explain it from beginning. While traveling on 18 November 2017 north to the ESO Paranal Observatory, where was planned reportage on 10th anniversary od Czech membership in ESO, I decided to sleepover far from the civilisation – just to feel the magical…
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Over the horizon of ESO Paranal Observatory platform, located in altitude of 2635 metres, the bright Moon 3 days after new-moon phase is close by Saturn (left up) and Mercury (more distant left bottom). Colors of dusk are still prominent but the zodiacal light visibly appears. The whole scene is horizontaly split bit by brightest…
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The Bryce Canyon is one of the most beautiful natural parks not only in US, but in the world. And one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. When you stay in, you litterally feel like in a fairytale. A hundreds of high orange skittle-shaped limestone rocky towers create such a unique valley, offering…
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“Sit on the beach of Jackson Lake, enjoy the panoramatic view of the Grand Teton mountains… and the wonderful August night sky with the majestic Milky Way.” This was sound in my head, talking about one of my dreams while I was travelling across the US to see the total solar eclipse 2017. On 25…
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Just five days after the American solar eclipse, I was witness of another spectacular astronomical phenomenon. While traveling in the Yellowstone National Park, the biggest challenge was to take a nice nightscape over the Grand Prismatic Spring. Well, it is not pretty safe as presence of dangerous black and grizzly bears is very common in…
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