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Dining in Dqae: Better than TV

Have you ever dreamt about dining under the Milky Way? Well, trust me – it’s better than watching TV! When I came to Greg Laws’ large farm Dqae Qare in Botswana, I didn’t even think about something like that. But thanks to Greg’s hospitality and incredible helpfulness me and my friends could enjoy this unusual…
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Seeking Venus under the Spitzkoppe arch

There are not so many places in the world, where you can feel so small and nugatory in compassion to the nature around you, but also such grateful to the world to be the part of a moment in this beautiful natural spot. With no doubt, one of those places is the Spitzkoppe national park…
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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 Perseid rain over the Kolonica Saddle

The annual meteor shower Perseid had absolute great conditions this year. New Moon occurred just day after the maximum as it was about 6:30 to 9:00 UTC on August 13th, 2015. Last time the “moonless Perseids” were in 2013 and the next time we will enjoy that in 2018. I took a risk for possible…
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The noctilucent night

As the ongoing season of the Noctilucent clouds 2015 slowly comes to its maximum, I could finally enjoy one of the most wonderful night with this phenomenon over the Seč reservoir. It was 10/11 July 2015, very hot summer night, when I noticed the first structures of NLCs over the northern horizon. The structures were…
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The dancing Sprites over the reservoir

As the hot and dry summertime peaks in the center of Europe, this season finally brings some strong MCS storms visible far from the Seč reservoir. And this night, exactly on the early morning of July 6th, 2015, finally came my opportunity to capture some Red Sprites just by the DSLR camera. I was waiting…
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The girl, planetary duo and the Noctilucent clouds

The “Noctilucent fever” around the north polar circle is underway and lot of people around the northern world are seeking the NLCs as much as they can. And I totally understand why. Freezing beauty of the NLCs with its electric blue tint and the “cobweb” structures is just incredible in every time of their sighting.…
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