What a wonderful night of 11-12 August, 2016! As the prediction for annual Perseid meteor shower promised unusually high activity due to Jupiter’s gravitational influence to the stream of the debris of comet Swift-Tuttle, I was looking for really good spot to enjoy it. So I decided to spend this time in relatively new Dark…
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All my life, full 30 years, I was dreaming about this. Seč reservoir is not only place to swim of to fish, but to live in mesmerizing nature of the Iron mountains. Naturally, lot of rocks can be found around, many of them inside the thick woods. But on the base of the highest one,…
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June nights are so exciting. The Milky Way, view to our starry home, gets up above the head with bright stars well known as summer triangle. Brightest star of the triangle is Vega, distant about 25 light years from Earth. The star became very popular especially due to legendary Carl Sagan’s novel Contact (last year…
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June is the very interesting month of the year, here in the Czech Republic and northern countries around the world generally. While the season of visibility of the Noctilucent clouds is ongoing, the night sky is, actually, not dark. Due to location of our country on 50N of latitude the season around summer solstice gives…
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The Atacama Desert of Chile is sometimes called “the Mars landscape on Earth”. And this image can pretty much show why. When Babak Tafreshi (left) and me arrived on 4th April 2016 in the deep desert, I just went outside of the car and couldn’t breath for a while. I was so thrilled of the…
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During stay in Chile for international Fulldome expedition of ESO, I could also get far from the observatories to see the beauties of the Chilean desert itself. One of the places we stopped for a while with Babak Tafreshi on 10th April 2016, was close to the Miniques and Miscanti lagunas, about 100 km south…
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Storms are one of the most amazing phenomena on Earth. While staying on wonderful Halmahera island for the spectacular total solar eclipse, I had incredible view from Kartika Buli over the distant tropical horizon on 2nd March 2016. Wild storm was producing beautiful flashes and the starry sky above was completely clear. This is the…
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