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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What a strong airglow here in Oravská lesná! I was just amazed by dark sky in Slovakia and went to capture some images of Jupiter oposition in Gegenshein. But when I started with photography here, I noticed something amazing – literally clouds of red airglow in all the sky above. The strogest part was capturable…
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Last Christmas I decided to spend in Oravská Lesná, Slovakia. And I don’t regret. On Dec. 27th, 2013, I tried to observe comet C/2013 R1 Lovejoy. But the sky was still wierdly bright and kind of green. So I changed lenses to find out and suddenly this: maybe the most intensive airglow I have ever…
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This is a comparsion of surrounding over and around the Jamyemonen Primary School of Pokwero, Uganda. I tried to preserve a natural colors and brightness as close as I saw it by my own eyes. “C2” means second contact, the beginning of total solar eclipse. During totality the horizon just took very strong yellow color…
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