For the deep lunar eclipse on 28 August, 2026, I traveled with my friend Josef Kujal more than 1900 km (about 1180 miles) from the Czech Republic to the region of Mount Ursuya in France, where we witnessed a truly beautiful view of the phenomenon at dawn. The attached image shows the maximum phase at 4:12 UTC…
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This unusual mosaic is composed of random phases of all 18 significant lunar eclipses over the past decade (total, partial, and penumbral ones), also captured from Cerro Tololo and Kitt Peak National Observatory, and including the century’s longest one in the center of the mosaic (captured from Rhodes, Greece). The sizes and positions of the…
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On 12 August 2026, truly beautiful solar eclipse occured over north pole, visible as total especially from the Spain. I was lucky to observe the eclipse nearby the Tordueles (a small rural hamlet in the province of Burgos), where the totality took about 1 minute and 46 seconds, just less then 1 hour before the…
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I was lucky this morning to capture the nice total lunar eclipse visible mostly from the western US. For this one, spent windy but clear morning at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. The almost 1-hour totality was nicely colorful, especially at the end, when a blue hint also appeared at the edge of the eclipsed…
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In 2018, my friends, Vladimira Krskova and Marian Runkas, and I traveled to Rhodes Island in Greece to enjoy the century’s longest eclipse of July 27th. I made a lovely portrait of them gazing at the unique phenomenon. This year, on 7 September 2025, they decided to celebrate that special moment and their love for…
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As the recent total lunar eclipse on Sept. 7, 2025, occurred during the dusk over Záhradné, eastern Slovakia, I wanted to demonstrate the cause of colors in the Earth’s shadow more clearly than before. This time-lapse mosaic shows the entire totality from right to left. As we know, the sky is blue due to Rayleigh…
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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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