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Dawn Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS - crop

Bright Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS

Discovered in October 2024, the comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seems to be promising bright comet of 2025 (it survives the heat of the sunny). I was also lucky to see this one from the Northern Hemisphere despite the fact, that the best show brought only for Southerners. 16 January 2025 If this was my last…
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Bright Mid-Latitude Auroras 2024

Bright Mid-Latitude Auroras 2024

In 2024, over 30 Aurora Borealis were recorded from Central Europe as the solar activity of the current solar cycle gets to its maximum. About 12 of the auroras were observable even to the naked eye and I was lucky to capture them across Czechia and Slovakia (latitude ~50 degrees north). In this collection, the…
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New Year Auroral Cangle Flame

New Year Aurora (2024/2025)

What odds! This year’s New Year celebration over Oravská Lesná, Slovakia, occurred on a moonless night with a clear sky, and just minutes after the fireworks started, an aurora appeared in the sky. What a great start to the year. So happy New Year 2025 to you all! Used Canon Ra, Sigma 50mm, f1.8, ISO4000,…
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The Sky Pyramid over Soneva Jani

Sky Pyramid over Indian Ocean

Back in November 2024, I witnessed an unusual equatorial view: In the morning sky just before dawn, the planet Jupiter appeared in a seemingly pyramid shape of two sky belts, the Zodiacal Light and the Milky Way. The image from Soneva Jani Island, Maldives shows this wide view and all hydrogen nebulae across the Milky…
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Colorful Orion

Colorful Orion

Almost every lover of the night sky will recognize the majestic constellation of Orion. However, Orion is also a huge attraction for astrophotographers, because deep scanning across the visible spectrum can reveal the extremely colorful and complex glowing and reflective molecular clouds that are located in this direction of our Galaxy. On November 10, 2024,…
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Cloudy Geomagnetic Storm on 10 October 2024

Cloudy Geomagnetic Storm on 10 October 2024

Another strong geomagnetic storm of this year brought bright auroras over central Europe on 10th through 11th October 2024. Unfortunately, this time the weather was completely against me, I was lucky to capture the bright red just before the main show started, because by that time thick clouds with rain covered the whole sky over…
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Deep Sky Comet

Little Big Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)

Discovered in January 2023, the comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) seems to be promising bright comet of 2024 (and very likely one of the brightest of last decades). I was also lucky to see this one with about 1-kilometer-sized nucleus, which can be considered as not so big, but also not that small among other known…
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