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Category: Eclipses

The anticrepuscular eclipse

Last night, on 7th August 2017, a spectacular celestial show appeared over ESO HQ Building in Garching, Germany. The full Moon was rising in the twilight colors while partially eclipsed by the Earth. Best moment occured just a minutes after the sunset when pretty significant anticrepuscular rays showed in the sky, converging in the antisolar…
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Chasing the deep annular eclipse

What a wonderful experience on 26th February, 2017, in the deep Argentinian Patagonia. Me and my friend, we both witnessed the deep and incredibly short annular solar eclipse (duration about 53 sec.) in a blue sky with absolutely no cloud! The eclipse was so deep that even if the Sun wasn’t covered totally, the environment…
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Twelve minutes before…

On Saturday Feb. 11th, 2017, the penubral lunar eclipse occurred in the sky. It would have to be visible perfectly from the Czech Republic, but lot of clouds disturbed the sky show. However, there were some holes in the clouds over the Seč reservoir, so I was able to take this shot and also see…
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Spotting the Mercury in front of the Sun

On Monday May 9th, 2016, the planet Mercury appeared in fron of the Sun. The rare phenomenon was wordly expected and so many talented photographers decided to take a chance for the best shot. And they were really successful. I didn’t have that huge ambitions cause I wanted to enjoy it visually the most, same…
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Cloudy solar eclipse… Revealed

Since the total solar eclipse on 9 March 2016 was disturbed by clouds over Maba village of Halmahera island, I was so happy of the visual experience so far. But somehow I managed even to get some data to a deeper mathematical post-processing, which I learned from prof. Druckmüller. It really took a while, but…
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Breath taking diamond ring!

The worldly expected solar eclipse on 9th March 2016 was disturbed by tiny clouds in Maba of Halmahera Island. Half an hour before the totality was even heavy rain. But even if the view wasn’t as clear as everybody wanted at the place, eventually we were witnesses of spectacular show anyway. The phenomenon took my…
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Desert eclipse

The last remarkable eclipse in the world occured in September 2015. The spectacular total lunar eclipse was visible from Europe, Africa and the US as well. I was so lucky to enjoy it from Sesriem, Namibia, over the Namib desert. I still cannot forget the last moments of this, during partial phase, as the full…
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