Where do the red flames over the horizon come from? Well, let me explain it from beginning. While traveling on 18 November 2017 north to the ESO Paranal Observatory, where was planned reportage on 10th anniversary od Czech membership in ESO, I decided to sleepover far from the civilisation – just to feel the magical…
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The Bryce Canyon is one of the most beautiful natural parks not only in US, but in the world. And one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. When you stay in, you litterally feel like in a fairytale. A hundreds of high orange skittle-shaped limestone rocky towers create such a unique valley, offering…
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“Sit on the beach of Jackson Lake, enjoy the panoramatic view of the Grand Teton mountains… and the wonderful August night sky with the majestic Milky Way.” This was sound in my head, talking about one of my dreams while I was travelling across the US to see the total solar eclipse 2017. On 25…
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Last night, on 7th August 2017, a spectacular celestial show appeared over ESO HQ Building in Garching, Germany. The full Moon was rising in the twilight colors while partially eclipsed by the Earth. Best moment occured just a minutes after the sunset when pretty significant anticrepuscular rays showed in the sky, converging in the antisolar…
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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 as in the first half of the 13th century. It was first mentioned in 1261, when it was in possession of Smil of Ronow, who called himself Smil of Lichtenburg and…
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No rivers in the Atacama Desert? Not exactly true! Well, if you like a metaphors, of course. On the ground, very old trough leads in the “Mars” wasteland, not so far away from the ESO Paranal Observatory. The desert is really dry so the astronomers there have to live with very limited sources and, of…
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Not only the Moon or Sun can be source of atmospheric optical phenomenon called corona. Here is wonderful case of appearance of the corona around bright planet Jupiter. While thin clouds were slowly moving in front of it, the moonlit of young Moon illuminated the foreground of northern Atacama desert, Chile, with numerous volcanoes over…
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