It has been a long time since I left the majestic national park El Teide on Tenerife, Canary islands. But still have many datas for processing. This is result of one of it. It was cold night 2nd October 2013, but so clear to make so many portrais of starry sky. One of the most…
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Deep night from 2nd to 3rd October 2013. An amazing conditions of sky in National Park El Teide, Tenerife, allowed me to make very unusual portrait of sky. Down there you can see terrain of park with peak of volcano El Teide and above it – high around zenith – there are two columns. First,…
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What a strong airglow here in Oravská lesná! I was just amazed by dark sky in Slovakia and went to capture some images of Jupiter oposition in Gegenshein. But when I started with photography here, I noticed something amazing – literally clouds of red airglow in all the sky above. The strogest part was capturable…
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Last Christmas I decided to spend in Oravská Lesná, Slovakia. And I don’t regret. On Dec. 27th, 2013, I tried to observe comet C/2013 R1 Lovejoy. But the sky was still wierdly bright and kind of green. So I changed lenses to find out and suddenly this: maybe the most intensive airglow I have ever…
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As usually, during christmas vacation I had to visit my the most favorite place in my life – cottage in Ustupky, Czech republic. It’s kind of unusual, but just one day before Christmas (23rd December 2013) we have no snow here. But is the winter without snow so big problem? Of course not – if…
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Comet Lovejoy is slowly moving above the arc of Corona Borealis constellation, which is incredibly photogenic. I was very lucky on 6th December morning, because I had just a few minutes of hole in the clouds, right before orcan Xaver hits central Europe. Also during capturing this exposure two satellites (probably Iridium) flew in the…
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Comet Lovejoy is just beautiful even near cities with light pollution. Like this morning – on 3rd December 2013 above trees of Úpice observatory, Czech republic. Even it high clouds covered clear view to the comet, it was visible to naked eyes. Thank you, Terry Lovejoy, for another succesful discovery… Used Canon 6D, Samyang 24…
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