On the “Little prince’s planet” Earth is a shore of frozen Seč reservoir of the Czech Republic and tiny snowy blanket full of human and animal footprints. The “little prince” is looking towards the brightest evening star, planet Venus, which is remarkable even in the dusk. Although the horizon is effected by light pollution, a…
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On this calm nightscape portrait you can find so many jewels of virgin dark Namibian sky. Looking from right, the far massif is Brandberg, the highest mountain of Namibia. Just over that, in the right upper corner, a faint anti-solar point known as Gegenschein appears in the starry foreground. A bit lower, just over the…
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Croatian island Mali Lošinj is well known for the historical Manora Observatory, founded by Leo Brenner in 19th century. It is also such a beautiful place in the Adriatic sea, where you can be experienced by diverse activities among culture, sport and – of course – time in the nature. On the south-east coast of…
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The Atacama Desert of Chile is sometimes called “the Mars landscape on Earth”. And this image can pretty much show why. When Babak Tafreshi (left) and me arrived on 4th April 2016 in the deep desert, I just went outside of the car and couldn’t breath for a while. I was so thrilled of the…
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Zodiacal light is one of the most prominent “unsolicited” lights in the sky, if speaking about deep sky observation at professional astronomical sites such as ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. But the light in the night sky is caused by one of the structures of the Solar System that is curently being studied a…
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What a boring image, right? Well, it’s colorful, it has the Milky Way and the dominant subject is astronomical instrument. The reflective plate is, in fact, the Swedish-ESO Submilimetre Telescope at the southern part of the large complex of La Silla Observatory. It suppossed to be antenna observing the Universe in sub-millimetre wavelenghts, which would…
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What is this odd view? Is it from this world? A photo montage? Well, not pretty much. This image shows view to the sky in January from both hemispheres. It ingeniously uses the compositions and timing to demonstrate different views in the Milky Way and the zodiacal light close to the Sun in the sky,…
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