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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How the time goes fast. Last time I photographed the Moon, it was just weeks ago during its midnight rising. Now there is a fresh new young crescent, very special one. In this lunacy there’s gonna come two eclipses: total lunar eclipse on 14th April and annular solar eclipse on 29th April visible from Antarctica.…
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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 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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A story about total solar eclipse on November 3rd, 2013. When the eclipse started (on left side of the image), there were two part of diamond ring, which was unusual (for me first time). It is caused by angle diameter of the Moon in this case of hybrid eclipse. The magnitude of coverage from Pakwero,…
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Two eclipses of same lunar period. Lunar eclipse observed from Ustupky, Czech republic and the solar one from Pokwero, Uganda. Used Canon 6D, 1000/10; lunar eclipse: ISO 500, 6×1/400 s, stacked in Registax, 40% saturated; solar eclipse: ISO 250, 3×1/500 s.
Stars during total solar eclipse 14th November 2012, Mulligan Hwy, Queensland, Australia. 11×1/4 s, ISO 400, Samyang 8 mm (f3.5). Detail of corona processed by Miloslav Druckmüller from datas by Jan Sladecek.
