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The Milky Way within reach

Each of us was sometimes dreaming about how it would be within reach with the Milky Way. There are many ancient legends speaking about Milky Way as a sky part of river on the Earth, smoke of souls moving towards a gods or even bride’s veil. Along the cultures, the Milky Way was such a…
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Chasing the deep annular eclipse

What a wonderful experience on 26th February, 2017, in the deep Argentinian Patagonia. Me and my friend, we both witnessed the deep and incredibly short annular solar eclipse (duration about 53 sec.) in a blue sky with absolutely no cloud! The eclipse was so deep that even if the Sun wasn’t covered totally, the environment…
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Once upon a time

This view from the last summer over the Seč reservoir means so much now. Once upon a time, when I was a kid, I had a dream. I was in love with a girl and I took a journey to find her in the dram. While looking for her in a deep woods, I found…
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The Winter Hexagon over Oravska Lesna

The Winter Hexagon over Oravska Lesna

While spending Christmas time 2016 at Oravska Lesna, Slovakia, I felt sometimes like in a fairytale. Once the landscape covers a fresh snow, it feels like time stops and everyting around just sleeps. Most of winter nights are cloudy, however, when finally cleares up, you can enjoy such a beautiful night sky. Against the faint…
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The Little prince towards Venus

On the “Little prince’s planet” Earth is a shore of frozen Seč reservoir of the Czech Republic and tiny snowy blanket full of human and animal footprints. The “little prince” is looking towards the brightest evening star, planet Venus, which is remarkable even in the dusk. Although the horizon is effected by light pollution, a…
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Sky jewels over the Namibian highest

On this calm nightscape portrait you can find so many jewels of virgin dark Namibian sky. Looking from right, the far massif is Brandberg, the highest mountain of Namibia. Just over that, in the right upper corner, a faint anti-solar point known as Gegenschein appears in the starry foreground. A bit lower, just over the…
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Brandberg moon-landscape by the Moon

When I planned to go in Namibia a year ago, I had no idea that the country is so various. You can see the Atlantic ocean, seek the stars in the Namib desert, stand on the largest found iron meteorite, find a millions years old petrified trunks, enjoy your time in unique boulder nature reserve,…
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