What an inetresting evening on 24th May 2013. As expected, the twilight western horizon offered three planets (Venus, Jupiter and Mercury). But that wasn’t all. In the same moment high above south-east the Moon was in company with planet Saturn. High clouds came for making it even better and scattering moonlit created colorful corona around…
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Partial lunar eclipse on April 25th from Úpice observatory, Czech republic. Used Canon 550D, MTO 500/10, 12×1/40 s, ISO 400. Images of the Moon are situated relatively to the center of the Earth’s shadow.
Timelapse of 2012 sky phenomena: Moon haloes, Venus transit 2012, NLCs 15th June, airglow, Perseids, storms and total solar eclipse on 13th November. Locations: Seč reservoir, Czech republic (melting ice, Milky way, Venus-Jupiter conjunction, north pole, sunset with fishermen); Kunětická hora, Czech republic (Venus transit); Korčula island, Croatia (Milky way, skywatchers); Ondřejov observatory, Czech republic…
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A two minutes of indescribable show… Canon 550D, MTO 500/10, HDR from HD video frames; Canon 450D, Samyang 8 mm, 1/3 s, ISO 400, f/3.5; 14th November 2012, Mulligan Hwy, Australia.
This image is very symbolic. Even if there is just the Moon, in the time of capturing it was happening another phenomenon – Venus transit. Yes, this is the Moon before sunrise of 6th June 2012, when the last Venus transit occured. Right in the moment I cought up this image, another “big eye” was…
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One of the best view in my life was meeting with impressive celestial triangle of 25th March 2012. The crescent Moon was just a few degrees from planet Jupiter and Venus, all together in constellation Taurus with Pleiades cluster. I decided to catch this amazing conjunction from Riuns of Lichnice, old castle in Podhradi, Czech…
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Absolutely breathtaking celestial triangle with crescent Moon, Venus and Jupiter from beach of Sec reservoir (Czech republic) on 24th March 2012. The winter just ended in this country and icy surface of the water melted during the day. Just after another three days the ice melted completely, so I had really big luck for this…
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