Yesterday, on June 16, 2026, from Seč Lake, Czech Republic, I was a witness to a Circumhorizontal Arch or “Fire Rainbow” among laypeople. This halo phenomenon is less common than the circular 22-degree halo; in the Czech Republic, it is even rarer. Why? Because for its occurrence, the Sun needs to be at least 58…
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The weather over Central Europe was bad, so the closest conjunction of Venus and Jupiter on 9 June 2026 was not possible. I was, however, lucky just 2 days before, on 7 June 2026, when the beautiful pair appeared over the calm Seč Lake, Czech Republic, along with Castor and Pollux stars. Using Nikon Z6III…
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This forenoon on 8 June 2026, I got extremely lucky in Prasek, Czech Republic. I captured a plane and the International Space Station in front of the Sun at the same time (same shot). It was not planned. And the chance was truly extremely low. Knowing the angular size of the Sun, the duration of…
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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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