What happened with the Full Moon last night, on 8th October 2014? Well, nothing so special, but still pretty rare. Our big satellite was just “swimming” in the Earth’s shadow, producing the wonderful total lunar eclipse. If there wasn’t any atmosphere around our planet, we couldn’t breathe, but also the Moon wouldn’t be that colorful…
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The South Pacific is famous for lot of spots, where you can watch the migrating whales. One of the spot is, of course, Rarotonga of the Cook Islands. I saw several whales slowly and gracefully swimming over the lagoon from Rarotonga Backpackers, but the biggest whale was somewhere else – in the sky. That’s true.…
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One of the best places I have ever visited in my life – the legendary Aitutaki island of the Cook Islands. This image is, actually, probably the first astro-photography captured from the island ever, captured 30th August 2014. It’s kind of shame, because the sky above Aitutaki is just incredible. Even if I didn’t have…
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Have you ever dreamt about relaxing in bed in the middle of the night and having the view out of the room directly to the Milky Way? Well, I found this spot. It’s a room in Lauder School BB, New Zealand, managed by lovely couple Bruce and Esmé MacDonald, where you can just lie down…
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Most likely you see in this image Luke Skywalker, hidden in the building with his light-sword. Or some of you see the light portal to the Universe. Where in New Zealand can you find this portal? Let’s visit very small village Lauder in Central Otago. Even dozens kilometres from that, you can see very strong…
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Another auroras burned very low above the south horizon on 24th September, here at NIWA atmostheric station, Lauder, New Zealand. The opened dome is actually new BOOTES telescope prepaired for exciting detecting GRBs from here. Green color of the dome is caused by reflection of the green light from lidar behind me. As I finished…
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Moving on, now the south island of New Zealand. Here I visited the NIWA atmospheric and meteorological station. It’s located far away from big cities, just a kilometer north from the sign of small village Lauder. The station is focused on lot of measurement, especially of ozone layer. Actually in the previous century, when it…
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