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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Yesterday’s Flower Moon, on 1st May, 2026, was after a long while I chose one for beautiful composition with the famous Czech Kunetic Castle. As the Moon rose up just abou 20 minutes after the sunset, the “blue hour” made the sky bright blue and the castle too. When capturing the immersive moonrise near Osičky…
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The last night of my 2025 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 Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) photography, which I actually started days sooner in Bolivia. As NOIRLab says: Cerro Pachón is a…
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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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Discovered in September 2025, the comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) seems to be promising a nice comet of April 2026. I was also lucky to see this beautiful one. Its path nearby the Sun (with perihelion of 19th April 2026) and the Earth then (with perigee on 26th October 2026) brought several truly unusual moments in…
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This seemingly common picture of the rising Moon behind Kunetic Castle has a touch of rarity. I captured it today, on 7 April, 2026, from Hrobice, Czech Republic, after 1 a.m. Central European Time. At the same moment when the Artemis II crew flew closest to the Moon and took a series of breathtaking shots.…
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14-22 March 2026 No timelapse, pure live video. No added effects, pure footage. No artificial intelligence, pure nature. And no acceleration, this is in live mode (yes, even the ending!). During the March 2026 Northern Lights Workshop in Sweden, I fully occupied the Nikon Z6III with a seemingly impossible task: To film the beauty of…
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