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Airglow impact over the Yellowstone

Just five days after the American solar eclipse, I was witness of another spectacular astronomical phenomenon. While traveling in the Yellowstone National Park, the biggest challenge was to take a nice nightscape over the Grand Prismatic Spring. Well, it is not pretty safe as presence of dangerous black and grizzly bears is very common in…
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All around the hidden sun

The date of 21 August, 2017, will be remembered by numerous people as the day of “Great American Eclipse“. As the spectacular total solar eclipse occured over many states of US, it was easily possible to find a good place to watch it in the clear skies. I was among the people with best luck…
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Perseids 2016 over picturesque Vrchteplá

Thirty years ago, in 1986, begun one of the most known Slovakian astronomical tradition called “Expedícia Perzeidy“. Over these years, more than 24 thousands of Perseids were scientifically recorded and reported to International Meteor Organisation. Last 20 years of this tradition, the (international) Perseids expedition is organzized by Púchov eko-astro club, Astronomy Club of Juraj…
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Enjoying the Noctilucent romance

What a wonderful view last night, 24th June 2017! The sky was not clear, so the tropospheric clouds firstly disrupted the observation of the Noctilucent clouds over the Seč reservoir, Czech Republic. But then, however – while dissipating – it made a spectacular colorful sky show with brightening NLCs far over the horizon! Really romantic…
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Higher expectations

Summer storms can be really wild here in the Czech Republic. So when I’d realized a big one was coming late night 22nd June 2017, I prepared myself for really strong experience over the Seč reservoir. But when it came, it was, however, much weaker than expected. So I stood up on the beach with…
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Within reach...

The Milky Way within reach

Each of us was sometimes dreaming about how it would be within reach with the Milky Way. There are many ancient legends speaking about Milky Way as a sky part of river on the Earth, smoke of souls moving towards a gods or even bride’s veil. Along the cultures, the Milky Way was such a…
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Under the sky shore

Sometimes the sky can be so metaphoric. Like in this shot, taken on first day of 2017 over the Oravská Lesná of Slovakia. I took a walk in fresh snow, while the skies cleared up and the stars appeared above me. It wasn’t just about beautiful winter starry sky that moment as I’d noticed there…
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