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Category: The Moon and Lunar Phenomena

Freezing celestial show

Today’s (3rd Dec., 2016) Moon-Venus meeting in the sky over the Seč reservoir came up with really freezing weather. So in the meantime of the celestial show, water in the reservoir started to freeze. The brighter Moon in the beginning of this multi-exposition is result of bigger appearance of the cirrus clouds. Except the celestial…
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Brandberg moon-landscape by the Moon

When I planned to go in Namibia a year ago, I had no idea that the country is so various. You can see the Atlantic ocean, seek the stars in the Namib desert, stand on the largest found iron meteorite, find a millions years old petrified trunks, enjoy your time in unique boulder nature reserve,…
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Moon & Mercury over the astronomical Jadran

On 29 Sept., 2016, a wonderful morning celestial meeting of Moon and Mercury appeared over Mali Lošinj, Croatia, with two small islands Kozjak (the big one in the center of image) and Sveti Petar island (partially visible on right) of northern Adriatic sea. The place is well known for historical Manora Observatory, founded in the…
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Armstrong’s Full Moon over Brno

On Wednesday July 20, 2016, the mankind celebrated 47th anniversary of the moment when first man walked on the Moon. The legendary mission Apollo 11 with Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins changed the world when their mission succeeded. The anniversary was special with the Moon phase, almost full Moon. This special day I…
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Venus and the swimming Moon

A year ago, 21 January 2015, I witnessed very unusual view to the darkening horizon before the first stars appeared above the La Silla observatory. Just a minutes after the sun set over the horizon of distant south Pacific, the crystal purity of the Atacama’s air allowed me to spot the very young Moon. This…
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Desert eclipse

The last remarkable eclipse in the world occured in September 2015. The spectacular total lunar eclipse was visible from Europe, Africa and the US as well. I was so lucky to enjoy it from Sesriem, Namibia, over the Namib desert. I still cannot forget the last moments of this, during partial phase, as the full…
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The dark Namibian eclipse in the Gegenschein

On Monday Sept. 28th, 2015, in early Namibian morning the Moon went through the Earth’s shadow, producing spectacular total lunar eclipse. This one was the fourth of unusual tetrad of eclipses in 2014 and 2015. Actually, there was much more about the uniqueness of this phenomenon. The Moon was closest to the Earth just an…
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