The sky at Chilean Atacama desert is just incredible. And I was so lucky with visiting the La Silla observatory on 19th January 2015 – just right on time when the comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy was approaching close to the open star cluster Pleiades. The conditions were just amazing, so I didn’t have any problems…
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New year, new comet, same discoverer. Terry Lovejoy is amazingly lucky guy. Almost always he discoveres a new, relatively bright or even naked-eye visible comet for Christmass and new year time. And this one is not the exception. Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is another beautiful surprise discovered the last year and now it makes a…
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Moving from Namibia, next target was lovely Okavango region in Botswana. Just a few kilometres south-east from Maun, there is small spot close to the part of Okavango delta, where you can stay. And even if the sky was not that dark like in Namibia, we enjoyed the skies too. The night 16/17 December 2014…
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From the notebook of Safra-go.cz… Everyone who watches the skies, knows about annual Geminid meteor shower. The best time for watching it is around 14th December due to Earth’s approaching throught the thickest stream of dust particles from 3200 Phaeton. Well, unfortunatelly in this time on the northern hemisphere comes on the winter time, so…
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Lot of dreams come true in very long time, but I was lucky in this way. During my trip in south Africa I could reach another from them pretty quickly. Which one? To see, touch and stand on the largest iron meteorite in the world, Hoba meteorite in Namibia. There is no secret where is…
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Here comes the strogest moment of the Cook Islands: Capturing (probably) the first nighscape with the Milky Way over the popular Aitutaki Island in all history. This is what I spent for years of hard work in the Czech Republic and 4 months in Zealand’s fruit orachrds. Just to earn money to get here for…
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As I moved to the Canary Islands, my goal was to spend some time in the amazing Teide national park in Tenerife during the peak of annual meteor shower Orionids. The particles causing “shooting stars” are originally from Halley’s comet, which was closest to the Sun in same year as I was born. So a…
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