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Category: The Milky Way and Nightscapes

The magic Mangaia night

Back in the paradise! The Cook Islands were just amazing. Too sad that I had to leave. After that New Zealand is “only” a beautiful country. I still remember the beautiful night sky on 25th/26th August 2014 on Mangaia island, where is almost nobody – just so nice local people and the night sky like…
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Mangaia: The window to the Universe

What a beautiful night on 25th/26th August 2014 on Mangaia, the Cook Islands. I witnessed shooting stars from the descending activity of Perseid meteor shower, incredibly bright zodiacal light and zodiacal bridge across the sky and Milky Way with countless dark nebulae – dusty clouds in the level of our Galaxy splitting the Milky Way…
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Do you believe in paradise?

Do you believe in paradise? Many people still dream about it, but I don’t have to anymore. I was there. Turqoise lagoon, beautiful Polynesian dancers, smell of the ocean, coconut palms… But not only that. After a long wait, my first night – after 4 years waiting to get here again – came on 18th…
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Between two ways

There are two ways on this picture, captured on 29th June 2014 not so far from Waihau beach of New Zealand. The first way is on the ground, heading to far beach. The upper way is much more unique to see – it’s a projection of our Galaxy called Milky way. Somewhere far seems to…
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What Tolkien didn’t see

As Peter Jackson made New Zealand so famous by the Lord of the ring movies, everybody is traveling across the country to see the places of all scenes. But does everybody think about what could Glumm or Frodo actually see, when they spent every night of their journey under the clear skies? Well, this could…
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Southern universe

Even if there is no up or down in the Universe, from the Earth people directly distinguish south and north. Especially if talking about specific parts of the sky. And this is the prove. Probably the most part of Milky way – from the Scorpius to Southern Cross is almost whole domain of southern hemisphere.…
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Airglow, sheeps and Magellanic clouds

Te Mata peak again! Great place to astrophotography didn’t dissapoint even on 20th June 2014 ad allowed me to make new portraits of colorful southern night sky. This time the main part was played by sheeps on one small summit with Magellan clouds above. So close and so far in same time. And red airglow…
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