As the comet Wirtanen gets closest to the Earth, it also gets to one of the most beautiful part of the sky – the constellation Taurus with star clusters Pleiades (upper left) and Hyades (lower left). Weather in the Czech Republic is, however, very bad, so I was truly lucky for about 17 minutes of…
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The pre-Christmas time 2018 will be very likely related to a comet. And just some comet. On 16th December 2018, just after 13 UTC, the comet 46P Wirtanen will approach very close to Earth. Well, not that close to be dangerous, but close enough to be visible even to unaided eyes. In fact, it will…
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The most significant side effect of harmful light pollition is definitely loosing dark night skies over our heads. Especially in the central Europe, Japan or eastern US the density of big aglomeration is so prominent that you have to travel truly far away to see something like this. Fortunately all around the world many enthusiasists,…
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On the shore of popular Slovakian lake Liptovska Mara, two wanderers enjoy the view to the Universe. Like a gate behind them, the Milky Way arches in the sky while both of the viewers are so interested in something else there – the bright reddish dot. It is planet Mars, reflected on the surface of…
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Welcome to the Kolonica Observatory, Slovakia, located in the Dark Sky Park Poloniny. Just this place was in August 2018 perfect center for observing annual Perseid meteor shower caused by debris of comet Swift-Tuttle’s nucleus. The celestial show was amazing as usual, bringing even some of spactacular fireballs. Here comes photographic testimony of whole shower,…
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Imagine you spend time in a houseboat on turqoise clear lake while young moon sets over distant hills and silver belt of the Milky Way appears in the sky. You only step outside, on the boat terrace, where fishing rods guards the underwater wild but all feels so calm like never ever before. Like this…
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While the comet 21P Giacobini-Zinner slowly moves out of the center of the solar system, it is still quite pretty in the backyard telescopes. However, the best view can be gottten with sensitive camera. On this sky portrait from 20th September, 2018, the green comet with its tail surround deep-sky objects on the edge of…
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