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Orionid's Shower

Orionid’s Shower

Combining data from the last Orionid‘s maxima (from 2015 until 2022), I have created this almost full sky view of the annual meteor shower caused by the material of Halley’s comet. In the foreground, the Slovakian volcanoes around Prešov city can be seen as taken in 2020. The sky was then taken last year during…
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Aurora and Plankton

Aurora and Plankton

Early morning of Feb 8th, 2022, I was lucky for aurora by the Norwegian Sea. Enjoying it by a beach nearby Tromsø, Norway, I noticed blue sparkles in the waves, realizing they are luminescent plankton, which made the experience much more beautiful. I was literally watching two different naturally luminescent worlds – the one in…
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Glimmers of the Northern Lights

Glimmers of the Northern Lights

A short timelapse clip focuses on the immersive beauty of the Northern Lights. Timelapses were captured over Abisko (Sweden) during October 2021, Tromsø (Norway) during February 2022, and even Ústupky (Czech Republic) on March 14th, 2022 (Czech Republic aurora on March 14th on the very beginning of the clip is very unique, it was first…
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Salt and Universe

Salt and Universe

The Milky Way in this picture arches over a truly unique landscape – the salty desert of Atacama, Chile. While many photographers usually enjoy beautiful reflections on a lagoon, I was amazed by this unusual structure I had never seen before. The image was taken back on 1st May 2022, when I visited and explored…
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The Meteor Showers Collection

The Meteor Showers Collection

It took long 8 years but it was worth it. Here comes the longest and most time-consuming astrophotography project of my life, the complete collection of major annual meteor showers with a normal zenithal hourly rate of more than 18 meteors per hour. While most stargazers around the globe are familiar with August Perseids and…
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Top of Hawai'i

Top of Hawai’i

There’s more going on in this picture than you might think. This image shows Gemini North (part of International Gemini Observatory), located on Maunakea in Hawai‘i at the altitude of 4214 meters. To the lower left of Gemini is a red glowing light source. This is from the eruption of the Halemaʻumaʻu crater of the…
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Ľubovňa Full Moon

Ľubovňa Full Moon

Yesterday, on July 13, 2022, the Full Moon occurred only 9,5 hours after the moment of perigee (in distance 357 263 km from Earth), producing the angularly largest full Moon of the year. For this moment I traveled a long distance to the east of Slovakia, where I found a very exact spot to see…
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