Last days the International Space Station (ISS) prepared several beautiful transits in front of the morning crescent Moon over Central Europe. I was lucky with one of these beautiful, even if very elusive moments, too. While observing from Jetonice, Czech Republic, on Thursday, August 29th, 2024, the Moon was covered by a thin layer of…
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Today, August 28, 2024, early in the morning around 3 o’clock, nature brought another aurora over the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This time weak, I couldn’t see it with my eyes, but the camera captured its structures. This is how the glow appeared under the Big Dipper above the calm surface of the Seč Lake,…
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Here comes the mathematically stacked composite of this year’s Perseids (2024). This time, I wanted to express more, I went deep into my heart and wanted to show the feeling of a man with a kid’s soul, enjoying the place he loves the most. In the bottom part, you can find this person (me), enjoying…
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On August 11-12-13, 2024, an Aurora Borealis appeared even over the Czech Republic, central Europe. It was a faint but beautiful Aurora Borealis with many waves during the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower. For this time-lapse, taken from Ústupky (49.82N, 15.65E) in a period between 23:28-2:13 CEST I used Canon 6D and Samyang 14mm.…
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This early morning’s (7 August 2024) stormy weather over southern Austria (northern Italy) was pretty active. While observing from Ústupky, Czech Republic a beautiful, but elusive Red Sprite appeared, produced by a strong thunderstorm, which was located above Eastern Alps, about 390 km far from me. Their typical red color is caused by nitrogen emission…
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Yesterday, on 21 July 2024, the “Buck” Full Moon occurred. Here comes a series of the Moon rising over the famous Czech Kunetice Mountain Castle (from the 15th century) as it was seen from a precisely calculated place near Hrobice village. In this multiexposure, I tried to capture the change of color of the rising…
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Yesterday’s stormy weather over eastern Slovakia and Ukraine (14/15 July 2024) was pretty active. While observing north from Terňa city to east direction, two types of lightning appeared. Over distant Veľký Slivník (on right), just developing Cumulonimbus cloud produced one of its first cloud-ground lightning. This cloud was about 70 km away and very well…
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