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Category: The Zodiacal Light and Gegenschein

Mario’s on the crossroad

I still can’t forget the last night in south Africa on 1st October 2015. Actually, I remember that like it was yesterday. As we were closing to the civilization from the wonderful Namibia, the night sky was more and more effected by the light pollution. But Mario Runkas, my friend and such a great photographer,…
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No boundaries, no limits…

The world is so small. The human issues are so negligible. The space is so large… All those thoughts came up to my mind, while I was sitting on the top of the Land Rover (provided by Safra-Go company, which I am so thankful for that!). It was 13th September 2015, just the evening of…
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Under-warp jump to the Galaxy

What could a camera capture, if we jumped with it up by sudden “under-warp” relativistic speed close to the speed of the light? Well, despite it should break our neck immediately, cause, our body is not prepared for this sudden change, this is what would be close to the photographic result. And of course, only…
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Pure skies above the La Silla observatory

Many people are still asking themselves or others, if the view to the sky full of stars, with Milky Way and such dark starry foreground is real. Many people don’t even believe that the Milky Way is something easy to see. It’s too sad that by living in light polluted cities we completely broke the…
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Paranal before the daybreak

In the Chilean Atacama desert, 2635 metres high above the sea level, there is ESO’s Paranal observatory – one of the most spectacular observatory in the world. When you stay there and watch the pure beauty of the Universe on the technically perfect platform of the observatory with one of the world’s biggest telescopes, you…
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La Silla ear vs. Milky Way ear

The ESO’s La Silla observatory is one of the most photogenic place for astro-photography in the world. This image seems to be total prove. On the horizon, there is the road between Swedish submillimeter “ear” (left), listening to the Universe, and the hill with the dome of 3.6m telescope (right). Up above the dome you…
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All the dust above the Kalahari

While we were oversleeping in the Kalahari desert on 13th September 2013, the sandy air covered all the views around the horizon of Dqae Qare Farm. But the skies were full of much more farther dust. First at all the interstellar dust in the “falling” Milky Way, making a rich structures of of dark nebulae.…
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