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Colorful Noctilucent Clouds Panorama - Cut

Colorful Noctilucent Clouds Panorama

The Noctilucent Clouds (NLC) season 2024 is underway on the north of Earth. Caused by dust particles (containing meteor dust) and ice high in the mesosphere, they become visible only at dusk and dawn when scattering light of our sun located 6-16 degrees below the horizon. Yesterday, on 23 June 2024, I enjoyed this epic…
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Noctilucent Clouds over Seč Lake on 13 June 2024

Noctilucent Clouds 2024 over Seč Lake

Despite the high solar activity, which causes less visible Noctilucent Clouds than in other years, a beautiful ones appeared in the Czech Republic on 13 June 2024. I was lucky to see them through partially cloudy sky over the Seč Lake just during the dusk. Used Canon Ra, Sigma 50mm, f1.4, ISO 1600 (single shots…
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Moonlight Aurora over Seč Lake

Moonlight Aurora over Seč Lake

Yesterday night (YES, yesterday, May 17th, 2024, not a week ago!), another aurora surprise occurred in the Czech sky. It’s not as bright as the previous Friday so far, but still a beautiful display at least for a while around local midnight. The Moon made this aurora less visible to the naked eyes (the photograph…
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All-Sky Aurora Borealis over Czech Republic

All-Night Aurora Borealis over Czech Republic

On May 10-11, 2024, an Aurora Borealis appeared even over the Czech Republic, central Europe. It was most likely the brightest Aurora Borealis since 20th November 2003! For this time-lapse, taken from Záhořice (50.08N, 13.20E) in a period between 20:33-21:23 CET I used Canon 6D (modified), Samyang 12mm, f2.8, ISO 2000, and 6s exposures. What…
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Aurora Borealis on 5 May 2024 from Záhořice, Czech Republic

Aurora from Central Europe

Last night, on May 5th, 2024, the aurora surprisingly appeared even in the Czech Republic, a European mid-latitude country. I observed from Záhořice village. There were two prominent peaks – after local midnight (after 10 pm UT) and before local 2 am (before midnight UT). Both were visible even to the naked eye, despite the…
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Falcon's Horns

Falcon’s Horns

Yesterday evening, on May 2, 2024, I was–like many others–waiting for some auroras as the G3 storming was in progress. Unfortunately, the activity dropped down rapidly just before dusk ended. But during the waiting in Záhořice, Czech Republic, something odd appeared. A fuzzy white swirl with two blurred “horns”. At first glance, it looked slightly…
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Sotal Solar Eclipse 2024 – wide view

Total Solar Eclipse 2024

On 8 April 2024, the total solar eclipse occured over Mexico, USA and Canada, bringing unique opportunity to many people to see the ghostly solar corona during the solarmax. I was lucky to spot the eclipse from Durango, Mexico, with some short cloud period of clouds, but mostly the view was amazingly clear. Thus I…
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