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Two Eclipses, One Couple, One Place

Two Eclipses, One Couple, One Place

In 2018, my friends, Vladimira Krskova and Marian Runkas, and I traveled to Rhodes Island in Greece to enjoy the century’s longest eclipse of July 27th. I made a lovely portrait of them gazing at the unique phenomenon. This year, on 7 September 2025, they decided to celebrate that special moment and their love for…
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Love under the Galaxy

Love under the Galaxy

They were amazing. They just wanted a photo for their wedding announcement. Original, unique, perfectly celebrating their happiness. They didn’t want to be recognized in the photo, they just wanted to be a part of it so that the giant, if not infinite Universe above them would be the perfect metaphor for their love. Taken…
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From Blue into the Blue. Co-auhor is Josef Kujal/ASHK.

September Total Lunar Eclipse 2025

As the recent total lunar eclipse on Sept. 7, 2025, occurred during the dusk over Záhradné, eastern Slovakia, I wanted to demonstrate the cause of colors in the Earth’s shadow more clearly than before. This time-lapse mosaic shows the entire totality from right to left. As we know, the sky is blue due to Rayleigh…
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Beehive, Mars, and Venus

Beehive, Mars, and Venus

Twice this year (2025), the beautiful open star cluster Messier 44, also known as “Beehive” or “Praesepe Cluster”, was seemingly visited by a bright planetary passerby as it is close to the ecliptic. For the first time, from the end of April to the first half of May, it was the the red planet Mars.…
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A Butterfly Conjunction over Seč Lake

A Butterfly Conjunction over Seč Lake

Today, on 20 August 2025, a beautiful conjunction of Venus, Jupiter, the Moon, Castor, and Pollux appeared over Seč Lake around 3:30 CEST in the morning. From my place, it looked like a large butterfly in the sky. Can you see it? 🙂 Used Nikon Z6III, Nikkor 50mm, f1.8, ISO 1000, panorama of five vertical…
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Space Station and Spotty Sun - cut

Space Station and Spotty Sun

On August 13th, 2025, the clear skies offered me another successful photography of the International Space Station transit in front of the Sun. Taken from Habřinka (by Lázně Bohdaneč), Czech Republic, as a sequence on a 10-inch Dobsonian Telescope, when ISS was about 507,96 km far from me and the whole transit took only 0.65…
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Perseids, Venus, and Jupiter over Seč Lake

Perseids, Venus, and Jupiter over Seč Lake

On 12 August 2025, the early morning’s beautiful conjunction of Venus and Jupiter over Seč Lake, Czech Republic, appeared just before the dawn in the bright moonlight. I caught this romantic scene around 3 am CEST while both planets nicely reflected their lights on the water like nothing else so bright in the sky just…
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