This portrait of the summer Milky Way from northern hemisphere comes from a magical Slovakian place called Poloniny. Not far from a triple border of Ukraine, Poland and wonderful Slovakia, the Poloniny Dark-Sky Park was declared in the end of 2010 as reaction for world’s fights against the artificial light pollution. Patroned by Ivan Bella,…
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The dome of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the ESO’s Paranal observatory is hiding one of the most scientifically productive instrument of the world. Pointing it’s powerful beam in the sky, it feels like the astronomers are somehow trying to communicate with potential extraterrestrial forms of life. But no, this beam has another, very…
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What a boring image, right? Well, it’s colorful, it has the Milky Way and the dominant subject is astronomical instrument. The reflective plate is, in fact, the Swedish-ESO Submilimetre Telescope at the southern part of the large complex of La Silla Observatory. It suppossed to be antenna observing the Universe in sub-millimetre wavelenghts, which would…
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What is this odd view? Is it from this world? A photo montage? Well, not pretty much. This image shows view to the sky in January from both hemispheres. It ingeniously uses the compositions and timing to demonstrate different views in the Milky Way and the zodiacal light close to the Sun in the sky,…
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I still can’t forget the last night in south Africa on 1st October 2015. Actually, I remember that like it was yesterday. As we were closing to the civilization from the wonderful Namibia, the night sky was more and more effected by the light pollution. But Mario Runkas, my friend and such a great photographer,…
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The guys down there, sitting and dining: Left one: “I am just curious how the guy up there wants to come to us.” Right one: “Yeah, he seems hungry…” The guy up there, close to the car: “Damn, the food smells so goood. Maybe I could try to swim there…” The image was taken at…
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A year ago, 21 January 2015, I witnessed very unusual view to the darkening horizon before the first stars appeared above the La Silla observatory. Just a minutes after the sun set over the horizon of distant south Pacific, the crystal purity of the Atacama’s air allowed me to spot the very young Moon. This…
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