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Category: Atmospheric Phenomena, Airglow

Amazing View

Amazing View

The boat in the center of the image is named “Amazing View” as it belongs to Moosa Farooq of the Amazing View Guest House of Thoddoo, Maldives. And yes, there are amazing views around the island, not only in the daytime. Here the boat calmly anchored close to the beach, is surrounded by both marine…
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Sparkling Moonset

Sparkling Moonset

During the night of 5-6 February 2023, the Full Moon appeared around the world in the sky in an interesting position: It was also close to its most distant point on its elliptical orbit around Earth, producing one of the angularly smallest Full Moon of the year (apogee Moon). While watching the moonset from the…
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The Mars Occultation In Dawn

The Mars Occultation In Dawn

On the Slovakian morning of 8th December 2022, planet Mars appeared in opposition to the Sun, making the opportunity to observe it the whole night from dusk until dawn about twice brighter than Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. But not just that. Just in the time of the opposition, at 5:36 UT, the…
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The River over the Desert

Gems of the Atacama Desert

Spending time in the San Pedro de Atacama region this April brought me and my friends also to the middle of a hidden valley not far from the famous Valle de la Luna. Since the salty desert surroundings are just so large, there is still so much to discover. This is another example. I found…
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Orionid's Shower

Orionid’s Shower

Combining data from the last Orionid‘s maxima (from 2015 until 2022), I have created this almost full sky view of the annual meteor shower caused by the material of Halley’s comet. In the foreground, the Slovakian volcanoes around Prešov city can be seen as taken in 2020. The sky was then taken last year during…
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Aurora and Plankton

Aurora and Plankton

Early morning of Feb 8th, 2022, I was lucky for aurora by the Norwegian Sea. Enjoying it by a beach nearby Tromsø, Norway, I noticed blue sparkles in the waves, realizing they are luminescent plankton, which made the experience much more beautiful. I was literally watching two different naturally luminescent worlds – the one in…
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Eta-Aquarids and Planets

Eta-Aquarids and Planets

The annual meteor shower Eta-Aquarids is just in progress and I was lucky to observe the maximum at San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Luckily, the weather is very favorable and Moon doesn’t shine when radiant rises, so I took the chance to capture this composite image. Foreground was taken on May 3rd while meteors were…
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