Yes, I saw the Geminids. But it took truly long time to deliver the image. Reason? Bad signal. So here is it, lovely Geminids I was lucky to observe and capture over Soneva islands, Maldives (where I was invited), when clear skies allowed. Because the bioluminiscence started to be active as well, you can spot…
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Can we even calculate the probability of a truly lucky shot? This is what I often ask myself when looking at this image of mine from April 19, 2025, captured near the SOAR Observatory on Cerro Pachón at sunset. It was in the last seconds of the already dramatic phenomenon, during which a multiple green…
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On Sunday morning, 30 November 2025, my colleague Josef Kujal and I traveled for clear skies close to Malá Úpa of the Czech Republic (in the Giant Mountains), so we reached the popular interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. In this image, taken with a 200mm telephoto lens for 49 minutes of total integration time, the faint tail…
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The last night of my current stay at Cerro Pachón Observatory on (4-5 May 2025), where astronomers at Vera C. Rubin Telescope just started their amazing work, I tried to finish my longer-term photography project. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) photography, which I actually started days sooner in Bolivia. As NOIRLab says: The LMC is…
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This morning, from 2 UTC until dawn, truly bright aurora appeared even over the Czech Republic in the mid-Europe latitudes. The aurora was easily visible to the naked eyes even from suburban regions. I was enjoying it in the south of Bohemia, near Benešov nad Černou – one of the southeastern cities of the country.…
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Discovered in January 2025, the comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) seems to be promising a nice comet of October 2025. I was also lucky to see this one beauty. Its path nearby the Sun (with perihelion of 8th November 2025) and the Earth then (with perigee on 21st October 2025) brought several truly unusual moments in…
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On 19 September 2025, a rare Lunar Occultation of bright planet Venus occured in the daytime sky over Ústupky, the Czech Republic. The Venus disappeared behind the crescent Moon at 2:14 pm and reappeared at 3:25 pm. It was truly a big challenge to find both objects in the sky and make nice shots of…
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