… and both within a few days around the of June 2026 solstice. First one on 25 June, 2026, when the Sun with its big sunspoots was about to set over the Lichnice Castle. The second one just on the upper edge of “Strawberry Moon” on 29 June, 2026, when the Moon just appeared over…
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Yesterday’s Flower Moon, on 29th June, 2026, was after a long while I chose one for beautiful composition with the famous Czech Kunetic Castle. As the Moon rose up just about 20 minutes after the sunset, the “blue hour” made the sky bright blue and the castle too. When capturing the immersive moonrise near Sedlice…
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On May 21st, 2026, the clear skies offered me another successful photography of the International Space Station (ISS) transit in front of the Moon. Taken from Tuněchody, Czech Republic, as a sequence on a 10-inch Dobsonian Telescope, when ISS was about 722 km far from me and the whole transit took less than 1 second.…
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Yesterday’s Flower Moon, on 1st May, 2026, was after a long while I chose one for beautiful composition with the famous Czech Kunetic Castle. As the Moon rose up just abou 20 minutes after the sunset, the “blue hour” made the sky bright blue and the castle too. When capturing the immersive moonrise near Osičky…
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This seemingly common picture of the rising Moon behind Kunetic Castle has a touch of rarity. I captured it today, on 7 April, 2026, from Hrobice, Czech Republic, after 1 a.m. Central European Time. At the same moment when the Artemis II crew flew closest to the Moon and took a series of breathtaking shots.…
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On 19 September 2025, a rare Lunar Occultation of bright planet Venus occured in the daytime sky over Ústupky, the Czech Republic. The Venus disappeared behind the crescent Moon at 2:14 pm and reappeared at 3:25 pm. It was truly a big challenge to find both objects in the sky and make nice shots of…
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In 2018, my friends, Vladimira Krskova and Marian Runkas, and I traveled to Rhodes Island in Greece to enjoy the century’s longest eclipse of July 27th. I made a lovely portrait of them gazing at the unique phenomenon. This year, on 7 September 2025, they decided to celebrate that special moment and their love for…
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