I really very appreciate to be awarded in those ways. It’s honor for me and it reminds me not to stop in my passion…
Specials
- Asteroid 6822 Horálek, discovered by Zdeňka Vávrová in 1986 from Kleť observatory
- ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2026, Moon: 1st Prize for Venusian pearl on the Moon
- Optolong Compitition 2026: 2nd Prize for The Comet Lemmon through Aurora Borealis
- AstroCamera 2026 Compitition, Nightscape Category: 1st Prize for more images
- Optolong Compitition 2025: 3rd Prize for The Comet from the Paradise
- Astrophotographer of the Year 2024, SkyScapes: 3rd Prize for Like Blue Lava
- Optolong Compitition 2023: 2nd Prize for Milky Way above the Turquoise Wonderland
- Optolong Compitition 2022: 3rd Prize for Eclipse over Bottom of the World
- Capture the Dark Competition: 1st Prize for Remembering The Old Times
- Royal Society Photo Competition: 1st Prize for Three diamonds in the sky
- AstroCamera 2018 Compitition, Nightscape Category: 1st Prize for Make a wish over Králova Studňa
NASA’s Astronomy Picture Of the Day
- 7th March 2026: Two Eclipses of Saros 133 (Kitt Peak National Observatory, USA)
- 20th October 2025: Finding Comet Lemmon (Seč Lake, Czech Republic)
- 25th July 2025: Twelve Years of Kappa Cygnids (Crete, Greece; Poloniny and Eastern Slovakia, Seč Lake and Pancíř in Czech Republic, Hvar in Croatia)
- 15th March 2025: Tololo Eclipse (Cerro Tololo, Chile)
- 13th January 2025: Comet ATLAS Before Sunrise (Gemer, Slovakia)
- 20th September 2024: A Hazy Harvest Moon (Spišské Podhradie, Slovakia)
- 1st August 2024: Comet Olbers over Kunetice Castle (Kunětice, Czech Republic)
- 31st March 2024: Total Solar Eclipse Below the Bottom of the World (Southern Ocean)
- 11th March 2024: A Full Plankton Moon (Soneva Fushi, Maldives)
- 9th March 2024: Comet Pons-Brooks in Northern Spring (Revúca, Slovakia)
- 11th September 2023: Beautiful Comet Nishimura (Záhradné, Slovakia)
- 9th August 2023: Meteor Shower: Perseids from Perseus (Kolonica, Slovakia)
- 29th May 2023: Milky Way over a Turquoise Wonderland (Soneva Jani, Maldives)
- 12th May 2023: Halley Dust, Mars Dust, and Milky Way (San Pedro de Atacama, Chile)
- 28th March 2023: A Multiple Green Flash Sunset (Cerro Tololo, Chile)
- 7th February 2023: A Comet and Two Dippers (High Tatras, Slovakia)
- 10th November 2022: Total Lunar Eclipse (Kitt Peak National Observatory, USA)
- 28th October 2022: Seven Years of Halley Dust (Terňa, Slovakia)
- 15th July 2022: Lubovna Full Moon (Jarabina, Slovakia)
- 28th March 2022: Gems of a Maldivean Night (Finolhu Madivaru, Maldives)
- 15th March 2022: A Road to the Stars (ESO La Silla, Chile)
- 5th December 2021: Total Solar Eclipse Below the Bottom of the World (Southern Ocean)
- 9th August 2021: Perseus and Lost Meteors (Seč, Czech Republic)
- 31st July 2021: Remembering NEOWISE (Lobendava, Czech Republic)
- 4th March 2021: Mars in Taurus (Ústupky, Czech Republic)
- 1st January 2021: Galaxies and the South Celestial Pole (Pucon, Chile)
- 10th August 2020: Perseids from Perseus (Kolonica, Slovakia)
- 16th July 2020: The Long Tails of Comet NEOWISE (Jablonné nad Orlicí, Czech Republic)
- 12th May 2020: Lyrid Meteors from the Constellation Lyra (Seč lake, Czech Republic)
- 27th February 2020: Two Hemisphere Night Sky (ESO La Silla, Chile)
- 5th February 2020: Lunar eclipse perspectives (Boa Vista, Cape Verde)
- 20th January 2020: Quadrantid Meteors through Orion (Oravská Lesná, Slovakia)
- 26th December 2019: The Northern Winter Hexagon (Oravská Lesná, Slovakia)
- 28th November 2019: Moon and Planets at Twilight (Ganzi, China)
- 14th September 2019: Little planet to Exoplanets (Paranal Observatory, Chile)
- 12th August 2019: Perseid Meteors over Slovakia (Kolonica, Slovakia)
- 5th July 2019: La Silla Eclipse Sequence (La Silla Observatory, Chile)
- 1st July 2019: The Big Corona (Guernsey State Park, USA)
- 25th January 2019: Moon Struck (Boa Vista, Cape Verde)
- 22nd December 2018: A Cold December Night (Ústupky, Czech Republic)
- 17th August 2018: Perseid Fireball and Persistent Train (Kolonica, Slovakia)
- 10th August 2017: Night of the Perseids (Vrchteplá, Slovakia)
- 7th December 2017: All the Eclipses of 2017 (Czech Rep., Argentina, Germany, USA)
- 30th May 2017: A Kalahari Sky (Kalahari Desert, Botswana)
- 23rd December 2016: Once Upon a Solstice Eve (Ústupky, Czech Republic)
- 16th September 2016: Full Moon over Brno (Brno, Czech Republic)
- 31st March 2016: Big Dipper to Southern Cross (Maba, Halmahera, Indonesia)
- 3rd November 2015: Seeking Venus under the Spitzkoppe arch (Spitzkoppe, Namibia)
- 14th October 2015: A Gegenschein Lunar Eclipse (Sesriem, Namibia)
- 13th August 2015: Moonless meteors and the Milky Way (Hvar, Croatia)
- 1st July 2015: Venus, Jupiter and Noctilucent Clouds (Ústupky, Czech Republic)
- 29th July 2014: A sky portal in New Zealand (Te Mata Peak, New Zealand)
USRA/NASA’s Earth science Picture Of the Day
- 29th March 2024: Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks over the High Tatra Mountains (Velka Lomnica, Slovakia)
- 26th June 2023: Wild Corona of 2023 Hybrid Solar Eclipse (Pebble Beach, Australia)
- 13th October 2022: Observing Six Major Annual Meteor Showers (Czechia, Slovakia, Spain, Chile)
- 5th September 2022: Wizard’s Hat and Milky Way (Atacama Desert, Chile)
- 28th February 2022: Solar Eclipse From the Air Over the South Atlantic Ocean (Weddell Sea)
- 17th September 2021: Zodiacal Light Mosaic from North and South Hemispheres (La Silla, Chile)
- 31st August 2021: Lost Meteors Due to Light Pollution (Czech Republic, Slovakia)
- 5th April 2021: Einstein’s Eclipse, Colorized (Sobral, Brazil)
- 10th December 2020: Into the Past: Milky Way Mosaic (Soneva Fushi)
- 2nd November 2020: Comet NEOWISE Mosaic (Slovakia)
- 21st July 2020: Meteorite Find 100-Year Anniversary (Hoba West, Namibia)
- 28th May 2020: Approach of Storm and Lunar Halo (Soneva Fushi, Maledives)
- 22nd July 2019: Baily’s Beads (La Silla Observatory, Chile)
- 9th May 2019: Lunar Halo Over the Maldive Islands (Soneva Fushi, Maledives)
- 27th June 2018: Lunar Halo Over Ústupky (Ústupky, Czech Republic)
- 30th March 2018: Total Lunar Eclipse of January 31, 2018 (Ko Samui, Thailand)
- 1st January 2018: Observations of All Four Eclipses in 2017 (Czech Rep., Argnetina, Germany, USA)
- 17th October 2017: Grand Prismatic Spring at night (Yellowstone, USA)
- 15th June 2017: Solar Layes during Annular Eclipse 2017 (Facundo, Argentina)
NOIRLab’s Image Of The Week
- 11th June 2025: Arcs and Angles at Kitt Peak
- 21st May 2025: A Peaceful Panorama on Maunakea
- 14th May 2025: Dawning of Venus at Cerro-Tololo
- 23rd April 2025: Seeing Double?
- 19th March 2025: Total Lunar Eclipse Seen from Cerro Tololo
- 12th March 2025: Hurry, Make a Wish!
- 5th March 2025: Renewal and Discovery at Kitt Peak
- 26th February 2025: Gemini North Under a Blanket of Airglow
- 22nd January 2025: Dust and Dark Energy above CTIO
- 25th December 2024: Navigating the Milky Way
- 20th November 2024: The Global Reach of Las Cumbres Observatory
- 13th November 2024: Grandeur Around Gemini South
- 30th October 2024: A Stargazer’s View from Kitt Peak
- 16th October 2024: Time-Domain Astronomy at Cerro Tololo
- 9th October 2024: Gemini and Sights of the South
- 18th September 2024: ‘Seeing’ atop Cerro Pachón
- 4th September 2024: SARA South at Cerro Tololo
- 27th March 2024: Golden Hour at Maunakea
- 10th January 2024: A Little Rocky Planet
- 13th September 2023: Calibration Station
- 30th August 2023: A False Dawn at KPNO
- 16th August 2023: A Pantheon Above WIYN
- 26th April 2023: A Cosmic Overpass
- 5th April 2023: The Belt of Venus over the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope
- 28th March 2023: Multiple Green Flashes
- 1st February 2023: A Sky for Discovery
- 16th November 2022: Beginning to End of a Total Lunar Eclipse
- 9th November 2022: Double Trouble Total Lunar Eclipse
- 6th July 2022: A Bright Night over Gemini North
- 22nd June 2022: When Hemispheres Connect
ESO’s Picture Of The Week
- 4th July 2022: Meteor shower in the Chilean Desert
- 9th May 2022: Partial eclipse over Chile’s Atacama Desert
- 25th April 2022: Peeking above the horizon
- 28th February 2022: A road to the stars
- 28th February 2022: It’s a car! It’s a train! No, it’s Jupiter!
- 1st November 2021: Planet SPECULOOS
- 13th September 2021: North Meets South
- 30th August 2021: Fisheye on the galaxy
- 2nd August 2021: Planet La Silla and the Milky Way
- 19th July 2021: Capturing a Comet
- 12th July 2021: A cosmic rainbow over the VLT
- 5th July 2021: ESO’s ELT home in the desert
- 21st June 2021: New Technology for Sharper Future
- 14th June 2021: Touching the Arch of Space
- 3rd May 2021: Lone Ranger
- 19th April 2021: In a cosmic woderland
- 12th April 2021: Milky Way Across the Desert
- 5th April 2021: A watercolour sky
- 8th March 2021: From Sunlight to Sarlight
- 15th February 2021: A Green Nomad above Giants
- 1st February 2021: Astrophotographers Assemble
- 25th January 2021: Meeting the Milky Way
- 7th December 2020: Splitting the sky
- 28th September 2020: Encircling Antu
- 14th September 2020: Shooting lasers, guiding the eye
- 31st August 2020: Antu and the Milky Way
- 17th August 2020: A Kaleidoscope of Colour
- 20th July 2020: Sunset over Atacama
- 22nd June 2020: Oasis in the Desert
- 25th May 2020: Southern Stargazing
- 11th May 2020: A Celestial Self-Portrait
- 4th May 2020: A spectacle over La Silla
- 27th April 2020: Four billion times better
- 5th February 2020: Jupiter’s Corona
- 13th January 2020: Dome of Light
- 2nd December 2019: The Stars of the Milky Way
- 23rd September 2019: Man meets the Milky Way
- 9th September 2019: Banishing Light Pollution
- 12th August 2019: A Coffee Break — La Silla Style
- 5th August 2019: A Cosmic Vista
- 24th June 2019: An Aged Observer
- 17th June 2019: Crux Watches Over ALMA
- 3nd May 2019: The Hunter and La Silla
- 27th May 2019: Desert Stargazing
- 22nd April 2019: Blood Red
- 1st April 2019: Shooting the messenger
- 25th March 2019: Nature’s Fireworks
- 21st January 2019: Follow the Yellow-Lit Road
- 14th January 2019: Satellite reflections over CTA Site
- 31st November 2018: The blue hour
- 5th November 2018: A lonely little telescope
- 27th August 2018: V is for VLT
- 20th August 2018: Under the celestial arch
- 13th August 2018: A fulldome family portrait
- 4th June 2018: Inspired by Interstellar
- 7th May 2018: Nova over Supernova
- 26th March 2018: La Silla’s Great Dane
- 4th September 2017: The VLT’s night light
- 10th April 2017: Within reach
- 13th February 2017: False dawn
- 28th November 2016: The Swimming Moon
- 11th July 2016: Milky Way Arching Over La Silla
- 27th June 2016: King of the Cosmos
- 18th April 2016: Venus and the Moon strike a pose
- 22nd February 2016: X Marks the Spot
- 2nd February 2015: Midsummer night brings Sprites
- 26th January 2015: Celestial nomad takes centre stage
Czech Astronomy picture of the Month
- April 2017: The revealed Sun
- January 2017: From Gegenshein to the False dawn
- August 2015: The Perseid rain over the Kolonica Saddle
- July 2014: The Blue and Green flash
- February 2014: Clear skies, sometimes airglow
- Spetember 2013: The pathways of Perseids
- March 2013: From the head of the comet PanStarrs
- August 2012: The Perseid fireball
- October 2007: A strange star in Perseus (with Dalibor Hanžl)