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Category: The Milky Way and Nightscapes

Gettin' closer

Gettin’ closer?

The man with the camera, standing against the starry sky and slightly illuminated by the young Moon, is well known and worldly reputable photographer and scientific journalist Babak A. Tafreshi. He was just working on another spectacular photograph over the volcano Miñiques of northern Chilean Atacama desert. While his camera was working and he was…
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Raised from the dust

Everything on this image comes from a dust. The stars, the Milky Way, even us – we have born from stardust. This portrait of the wonderful time in the Dqae Qare farm of Botswana shows members of Safra-go.cz expedition in September 2015, while they were enjoying the night in the Kalahari desert to shorten waiting…
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Stargazing at Mali Lošinj

Croatian island Mali Lošinj is well known for the historical Manora Observatory, founded by Leo Brenner in 19th century. It is also such a beautiful place in the Adriatic sea, where you can be experienced by diverse activities among culture, sport and – of course – time in the nature by day and night. With…
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The dawn over Mali Lošinj

Croatian island Mali Lošinj is well known for the historical Manora Observatory, founded by Leo Brenner in 19th century. It is also such a beautiful place in the Adriatic sea, where you can be experienced by diverse activities among culture, sport and – of course – time in the nature. On the south-east coast of…
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Green nomad rises, with current and future giants

In late March 2016, the green comet 252P LINEAR and its fragment P/2016 BA14 made fifth closest approach to Earth of all comets in history. Even if the comet itself was not such bright to make the people easily enjoy it – due to its nucleus’ diameter – it brought a wonderful composition with the…
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Greek legend over the Christian chapel

Human religion is so diverse. All around the world, you can find churches, monasteries, chapels, mosques… The Czech Republic is country of big percentage of atheism or undeclared religion, but along the history there were so many religion acts which led to changes of thinking of our ancestors and made them to build these sacred…
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The fulfilled dream

One of my biggest dream was to see the natural starry sky of souther hemisphere. Since 2010 the dream was fulfilled several times and one of those incredible moment happened a month ago in Botseana, in Dqae Qare farm of Greg Laws, where the views were exactly as great as I expected. Thanks to Safra-Go.cz…
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