Thirty years ago, in 1986, begun one of the most known Slovakian astronomical tradition called “Expedícia Perzeidy“. Over these years, more than 24 thousands of Perseids were scientifically recorded and reported to International Meteor Organisation. Last 20 years of this tradition, the (international) Perseids expedition is organzized by Púchov eko-astro club, Astronomy Club of Juraj…
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Calm water of Seč reservoir partially reflects unusual scene of after-summer-solstice night by very early morning of 27th June 2017. Since the night never gets dark in the Czech republic around the solstice time, bluish tint of the scattered sunlight in higher atmosphere comes from the northern horizon, on the left. But not just this…
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No rivers in the Atacama Desert? Not exactly true! Well, if you like a metaphors, of course. On the ground, very old trough leads in the “Mars” wasteland, not so far away from the ESO Paranal Observatory. The desert is really dry so the astronomers there have to live with very limited sources and, of…
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Using more sophisticated methods (see results from the La Silla Observatory), I was able to re-process my data of the all-night zodiacal light panorama over the Mangaia Island (the Cook Islands) in the end of August 2014. Used Canon 6D, Sigma 15 mm, f2.8, ISO 6400, panorama of 7 singular images, each 61×20 s, darkframes…
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Each of us was sometimes dreaming about how it would be within reach with the Milky Way. There are many ancient legends speaking about Milky Way as a sky part of river on the Earth, smoke of souls moving towards a gods or even bride’s veil. Along the cultures, the Milky Way was such a…
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This view from the last summer over the Seč reservoir means so much now. Once upon a time, when I was a kid, I had a dream. I was in love with a girl and I took a journey to find her in the dram. While looking for her in a deep woods, I found…
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Just three days before Christmas 2016, on 21st December, there was a slight chance to catch an aurora from the Czech Republic. It was cloudy, so I decided to try a luck from Eagle mountains of the country. Unfortunately, the aurora didn’t appear in the end, but I took a night walk on the mountains…
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