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Category: The Zodiacal Light and Gegenschein

An evening of reflections

How the time goes fast. Last time I photographed the Moon, it was just weeks ago during its midnight rising. Now there is a fresh new young crescent, very special one. In this lunacy there’s gonna come two eclipses: total lunar eclipse on 14th April and annular solar eclipse on 29th April visible from Antarctica.…
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A fight for zodiacal light

This is colorful, but also kind of sad portrait of night sky above Jizerka, Czech republic. It is place known as Izera Dark Sky Park and even there is very hard to capture really dark sky with zodiacal light. The strong light pollution in central Europe is literally effusive. So on many places or great…
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A memory of Tenerife monuments

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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A sky horseshoe

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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Clear skies, sometimes airglow

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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The hole into the luminescent sky

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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Stormy Uganda

Watchig stars in Uganda is so dramatic. In one moment you are impressed by amazing dark sky with zodiacal light and Gegenschein, with Milky way or strong brightness of planet Venus, but just few minutes after a storm comes. But to see both of it – starry sky and far flashing – that worths a…
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