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Category: Meteors and Meteor Showers

Tropical Geminids

Tropical Geminids

Yes, I saw the Geminids. But it took truly long time to deliver the image. Reason? Bad signal. So here is it, lovely Geminids I was lucky to observe and capture over Soneva islands, Maldives (where I was invited), when clear skies allowed. Because the bioluminiscence started to be active as well, you can spot…
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Perseids, Venus, and Jupiter over Seč Lake

Perseids, Venus, and Jupiter over Seč Lake

On 12 August 2025, the early morning’s beautiful conjunction of Venus and Jupiter over Seč Lake, Czech Republic, appeared just before the dawn in the bright moonlight. I caught this romantic scene around 3 am CEST while both planets nicely reflected their lights on the water like nothing else so bright in the sky just…
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Twelve years of Kappa Cygnids

Twelve years of Kappa Cygnids

Every year in mid-August, almost at the same time like the Perseids, another meteor shower peaks: the κ-Cygnid. Named after the star Kappa (κ) in the Swan constellation, from where the slow meteors seemingly appear, they are almost not known as–unlike the Perseids–they have a very low rate of meteors, only about 3 per hour…
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Dream Summer Night

Dream Summer Night

Here comes the mathematically stacked composite of this year’s Perseids (2024). This time, I wanted to express more, I went deep into my heart and wanted to show the feeling of a man with a kid’s soul, enjoying the place he loves the most. In the bottom part, you can find this person (me), enjoying…
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Perseids, Galaxy and SAR

Aurora and Perseids in August 2024

On August 11-12-13, 2024, an Aurora Borealis appeared even over the Czech Republic, central Europe. It was a faint but beautiful Aurora Borealis with many waves during the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower. For this time-lapse, taken from Ústupky (49.82N, 15.65E) in a period between 23:28-2:13 CEST I used Canon 6D and Samyang 14mm.…
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Geminids over the Spiš Castle - Closer Cut

Geminids over the Spiš Castle

Over 2 years, the most famous Slovakian Spiš Castle (UNESCO World Heritage since 1993) was under reconstruction and there was a large crane on its top parts. Luckily, at the end of 2023, they moved it away and I could finally fulfill my photographic dream: To capture it from its northern side–where it looks like…
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Moonless Geminids over snowy Seč Lake

Fairytale Geminids, Again

Around the frozen Seč Lake, where fishes put themself to winter rest, the snowy blanket covered endless forests. People hidden in their warm cottages were just dreaming about their wishes around Advent candles as the miracle night was about to come in only 10 days. Remembering the legendary story of Jesus Christ’s birth, they also…
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