Comet ATLAS (C/2019 Y4), visible by Big Dipper these days, is now a hot candidate for bright comet 2020, visible even to naked eyes in mid-May. Every comet chaser is getting excited about what’s going to happen in the next months. While waiting for that, I made it happen to capture The green comet when…
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On this shot, the wonderful night sky over the island of Seč lake, the Czech Republic appears just after dusk. Despite the harmful light pollution over the horizon (the yellow glow), the arc of the winter Milky Way can be well seen as well as the faint column of the Zodiacal Light. On right it…
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Two photographers, two hemispheres, one sky. The view to the night sky is limited by our Earth, meaning in one time at one place we can only see a half of the starry spheric view, the second one is below the horizon. But what if – apart from travelling away from Earth – there is…
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On 5 February 2020, the ISS flew in front of the Moon, seen from East Bohemia. Me and my friend Josef Kujal succeeded with capturing of the flyby and even were able to get some details of the International Space Station, despite the bright twilight. While away from the Moon, the ISS was pretty bright,…
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Last night, on January 10th, 2020, the Full Moon made close approach to unsharp Earth’s umbra, producing significant darkening on its south edge. Despite wild weather over Studnice by Nové Město nad Moravou, Czech Republic, I made it happen to take this three-hours long sequence. During the maximum phase at 20:10 CET, the Moon was…
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The first major annual meteor shower in 2020, Quadrantids, peaked on January 4th, around 5am UTC. Meteors flying from omitted constellation Quadrant Miralis enter as meteoroids the Earth’s atmosphere almost in vertical direction to Earth’s orbit, meaning the maximum is very sharp. This year the circumstances with waxing Moon to set around local midnight promised…
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There are some sensations about dark sky places around the the world. In this peacefully looking wide-angle panoramatic shot of the Milky Way over the Atacama Desert, Chile, one of them can be pretty easily seen. While stargazing, the man in the bottom part (me) leans on a car in the middle of (almost nowhere)…
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