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Category: The Moon and Lunar Phenomena

All around the hidden sun

The date of 21 August, 2017, will be remembered by numerous people as the day of “Great American Eclipse“. As the spectacular total solar eclipse occured over many states of US, it was easily possible to find a good place to watch it in the clear skies. I was among the people with best luck…
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Jupiter and five moons

On the 7th May, 2017, the Jupiter-Moon conjuction occured in the sky. The maximum phase of the wonderful phenomenon was visible over Ústupky, the Czech Republic, at about 1:30 a.m. local time, May 8th, 2017, when the Jupiter was just about 1 degree south from lunar edge. Thin clouds appeared during the closest approach, producing…
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The young Moon

The Moon is such a beautiful when its phase gives you opportunity to see something like this, captured on 30th April, 2017, over the Ústupky, Czech Republic. Directly illuminated side shows lot of lunar craters, while the “dark side” is, actually, not totally dark. It can be seen by naked eyes as well because of…
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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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The setting Moon’s aura

While the Gibbous Moon of 10th December was slowly setting over a cloudy horizon of Seč reservoir, I have noticed there is also higher cloudiness passing by. Just in a short moment before the Moon disappeared, very colorful “aura” created around it. The phenomenon is called Lunar aureole or atmospheric corona, produced by produced by…
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Freezing celestial show

Today’s (3rd Dec., 2016) Moon-Venus meeting in the sky over the Seč reservoir came up with really freezing weather. So in the meantime of the celestial show, water in the reservoir started to freeze. The brighter Moon in the beginning of this multi-exposition is result of bigger appearance of the cirrus clouds. Except the celestial…
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Brandberg moon-landscape by the Moon

When I planned to go in Namibia a year ago, I had no idea that the country is so various. You can see the Atlantic ocean, seek the stars in the Namib desert, stand on the largest found iron meteorite, find a millions years old petrified trunks, enjoy your time in unique boulder nature reserve,…
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