For the deep lunar eclipse on 28 August, 2026, I traveled with my friend Josef Kujal more than 1900 km (about 1180 miles) from the Czech Republic to the region of Mount Ursuya in France, where we witnessed a truly beautiful view of the phenomenon at dawn. The attached image shows the maximum phase at 4:12 UTC…
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This unusual mosaic is composed of random phases of all 18 significant lunar eclipses over the past decade (total, partial, and penumbral ones), also captured from Cerro Tololo and Kitt Peak National Observatory, and including the century’s longest one in the center of the mosaic (captured from Rhodes, Greece). The sizes and positions of the…
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… 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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