Once upon a time, a pilgrim with a machine called camera was walking around the world. He witnessed so many wonderful places, tried so many adventures, met so many different people. But this place was magical, the unforgettable one. When he spotted a beautiful gretel of Oravska Lesna in Slovakia, surrounded by wonderful hills and…
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On the “Little prince’s planet” Earth is a shore of frozen Seč reservoir of the Czech Republic and tiny snowy blanket full of human and animal footprints. The “little prince” is looking towards the brightest evening star, planet Venus, which is remarkable even in the dusk. Although the horizon is effected by light pollution, a…
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While the Gibbous Moon of 10th December was slowly setting over a cloudy horizon of Seč reservoir, I have noticed there is also higher cloudiness passing by. Just in a short moment before the Moon disappeared, very colorful “aura” created around it. The phenomenon is called Lunar aureole or atmospheric corona, produced by produced by…
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When you travel from south to San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, the highway leads you across the mountainous part of the Atacama desert. Staying about 55 km (32 miles) south from Chajnantor Plaetau, home of the ALMA observatory, you can spot the summit of the volcano Miñiques. Surrounded by very slightly illuminated clouds by the…
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Today’s (3rd Dec., 2016) Moon-Venus meeting in the sky over the Seč reservoir came up with really freezing weather. So in the meantime of the celestial show, water in the reservoir started to freeze. The brighter Moon in the beginning of this multi-exposition is result of bigger appearance of the cirrus clouds. Except the celestial…
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On this calm nightscape portrait you can find so many jewels of virgin dark Namibian sky. Looking from right, the far massif is Brandberg, the highest mountain of Namibia. Just over that, in the right upper corner, a faint anti-solar point known as Gegenschein appears in the starry foreground. A bit lower, just over the…
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Deep in the Kalahari desert of Botswana, me and my friends of Safra-Go.cz spent a wonderful time in beautiful Dqae Qare Farm of Greg Laws. Just the first night after we arrived, on 9th September 2015, the sky was so clear that we literally felt the night nature inviting us in its pure beauty. Once…
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