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Category: Eclipses

The dark Namibian eclipse in the Gegenschein

On Monday Sept. 28th, 2015, in early Namibian morning the Moon went through the Earth’s shadow, producing spectacular total lunar eclipse. This one was the fourth of unusual tetrad of eclipses in 2014 and 2015. Actually, there was much more about the uniqueness of this phenomenon. The Moon was closest to the Earth just an…
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The Botswana partial eclipse

So far from the civilisation, just close to one small city called Ghanzi, I had amazing time at Dqae Qare San farm of Greg Laws. Thanks to the location just on the edge of large dry Kalahari desert, the weather was favorable to observe the partial solar eclipse in the morning hours of 13th September…
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Cloudy, sometimes eclipse

While the people on Svalbard could enjoy the incredible total solar eclipse with no clouds on 20th March 2015, the pity conditions on the Faroe Islands made it completely different. Lot of clouds covered the dreamt-of views into the eclipsed sun and lot of people saw just a darkening world around them, not the eclipse…
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Into the (in)visible shadow

What happened with the Full Moon last night, on 8th October 2014? Well, nothing so special, but still pretty rare. Our big satellite was just “swimming” in the Earth’s shadow, producing the wonderful total lunar eclipse. If there wasn’t any atmosphere around our planet, we couldn’t breathe, but also the Moon wouldn’t be that colorful…
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Southern lunar eclipse

After nervous 680km long drive across the north island of New Zealand for some chances of good weather me and my sister Katerina almost incredibly succeded. We found a small field-road next to the main road to Takatiki, where the clouds miraculously dissipated just couple minutes after beginning of totality and we could be witnessed…
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Cone of silence

This is a comparsion of surrounding over and around the Jamyemonen Primary School of Pokwero, Uganda. I tried to preserve a natural colors and brightness as close as I saw it by my own eyes. “C2” means second contact, the beginning of total solar eclipse. During totality the horizon just took very strong yellow color…
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Three diamonds in the sky

A story about total solar eclipse on November 3rd, 2013. When the eclipse started (on left side of the image), there were two part of diamond ring, which was unusual (for me first time). It is caused by angle diameter of the Moon in this case of hybrid eclipse. The magnitude of coverage from Pakwero,…
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