How rare phenomenon! When the Sun on 7th June 2014 rised above the Pacific ocean from Hot Water Beach, New Zealand, I was able tu capture so amazing moment – a blue flash. Occasionally is possible to capture the green one caused by the atmospheric bending or refraction of sunlight. But to see (and capture)…
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It was just last day of April 2014 and I decided with my sister and also her new czech friends here in Katikati, New Zealand, take a ride into the beautiful surrounding of this city. We decided to travel just few kilometres far from here, to majestic Waihi beach, which ends in Bowentown by small…
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Another stop on north island of New Zealand – beautiful Island View family park on Waiotahi Beach (nearby Opotiki). Even the sky didn’t look well during the day on 19th and 21st April 2014, some clouds were passing by, after sunset cleared up. It was worth it. I started testing the sky quality and suddenly…
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After nervous 680km long drive across the north island of New Zealand for some chances of good weather me and my sister Katerina almost incredibly succeded. We found a small field-road next to the main road to Takatiki, where the clouds miraculously dissipated just couple minutes after beginning of totality and we could be witnessed…
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Finally on New Zealand! After first meeting with Kiwis I decided to see some place with darker night sky. Because of necessary administrative staying in Auckland first days the weekend I spent on beautiful island Waiheke nearby the city. Except absolutely breathtaking sunset over the north Oneroa beach I finally saw dreamt southern Milky way.…
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I tried to catch up the significant conjunction of the Moon and Saturn on 20th March 2014 from Upice observatory, Czech republic. But I didn’t expect that the Moon is so bright even during its rising. So I just enjoyed the show of rising Moon itself and this is the result. It was amazing to…
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This is colorful, but also kind of sad portrait of night sky above Jizerka, Czech republic. It is place known as Izera Dark Sky Park and even there is very hard to capture really dark sky with zodiacal light. The strong light pollution in central Europe is literally effusive. So on many places or great…
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