While staying in Garching in place of Tania Johnston, who I thank so much for great hosptality, I had a great view to storms passing by on 30th July 2016. The one far away over ESO Headquarters was the most beautiful. With every flash all the cloud shaped like a boletus appeared behind home of…
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All my life, full 30 years, I was dreaming about this. Seč reservoir is not only place to swim of to fish, but to live in mesmerizing nature of the Iron mountains. Naturally, lot of rocks can be found around, many of them inside the thick woods. But on the base of the highest one,…
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June nights are so exciting. The Milky Way, view to our starry home, gets up above the head with bright stars well known as summer triangle. Brightest star of the triangle is Vega, distant about 25 light years from Earth. The star became very popular especially due to legendary Carl Sagan’s novel Contact (last year…
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June is the very interesting month of the year, here in the Czech Republic and northern countries around the world generally. While the season of visibility of the Noctilucent clouds is ongoing, the night sky is, actually, not dark. Due to location of our country on 50N of latitude the season around summer solstice gives…
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I was totally amazed by this moment, so I took a picture of that. The illuminated dome of the Residencia at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile produces no light pollution to impede the work of the telescopes. Above, the magical arc of the Milky Way spans the sky. Green hue and orange stripes are colors…
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While staying at Maba village on equatorial Indonesian island Halmahera in this March, I realized one amazing fact. This place with latitude only 40’N, is the best one to capture both of commonly known “pointer” showing the celestial poles. As the north celestial pole can be found by stars of the Big Dipper (pointing to…
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The beauty of the night sky over Jiko Mobon Gulf (Gulf around Mobon Island) at Maba – small village of Halmahera Island (one of the North Maluku islands) where I was a part of group of photographers experienced by 3m 17s long total solar eclipse (a.k.a “Gerhana Matahari Total” in Indonesia language and “Wolte Gallap…
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