On June 14th, 2025, the clear skies offered me another successful photography of the International Space Station transit in front of the Sun. Taken from Hranice (u Chotěboře), Czech Republic, as a sequence on a 10-inch Dobsonian Telescope, when ISS was about 467,9 km far from me and the whole transit took only 0.59 seconds.…
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Every year around the summer solstice, the Sun sets over the old Lichnice castle ruins when viewed from the Seč city. UNESCO’s Lichnice was constructed in the first half of the 13th century. It was first mentioned in 1261, when it was in the possession of Smil of Ronow, who called himself Smil of Lichtenburg,…
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What are the odds? Yesterday evening, when photographing the sunset from the Vicuña region, Chile, I was incredibly lucky with one shot. An airplane landing at La Serena airport flew just in front of the last edge of the Sun while multiple green flashes occurred too. All took a fragment of a second. According to…
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They used to say the eclipses were bad omens. Well, solar eclipses can truly make people surprised, but now we know that they are just a result of pure and simple physics, mostly optics. Like today’s one, on 29 March 2025, which I symbolically captured over St. Mark Chapel of Dolní Rokytnice (of Rokytnice nad…
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Yesterday’s sunset (5 September 2024) was truly a lucky one for me. After a year I finally managed my dream shot – the sunset over Lomnicky Stit summit of the High Tatras mountains, shooting from Terna, eastern Slovakia (about 74 km far from the summit). Why this mount? If you look closer at the summit…
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Today, on June 3rd, 2023, the clear skies offered me another successful photography of the International Space Station transit in front of the Sun. Taken from Uhlířov, Czech Republic, as a sequence on a 1.1m telephoto lens, when ISS was about 508.9 km far from me and the whole transit took only 0.73 seconds. Lots…
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On April 20, 2023 a unique hybrid solar eclipse occurred over the Indian Ocean, Australia, and Indonesia, making the opportunity to see a ghostly corona for up to 1 minute in the central line above Exmouth of Australia. I was lucky to get there for the spectacular phenomenon. Here are some first results of the…
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