Starship Asterisk*

I have no idea what was the problem with the background starfield of the original Hubble image... Mr. Pohl might have had problems with it as he replaced it with many identical parts of the original image stamping them across the picture... Even a 1 minute check would reveal many of them, e.g. there...

Partial lunar eclipse at Lake Balaton Copyright: Monika Landy-Gyebnar https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4386/35596876484_585a211797_z.jpg Sailboats were crossing the lake as it was a windy evening I only had to wait (and hope for) the right moment to capture the eclipsed Moon and a boat. Moon already r...

Lanterns lanterns0519small.jpg Photo credit: Monika Landy-Gyebnar High resolution image: https://flic.kr/p/UocupL Location: Városlőd, Hungary On the evening of 19th May we had a fine weather, clear sky - only with some small cirrus patches drifting by - and my friend and fellow amateur astronomer Ro...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8742/27928618430_096c7bbac7_b.jpg Big size pic: https://www.flickr.com/photos/48975225@N08/28131696201/in/dateposted-public/ On the evening of 9th July, 2016. at slopes the Bakony Mountains, Hungary, some peacefully grazing cows were just finishing their late dinner wh...

http://kepfeltoltes.hu/141215/5291094041214_geminid_composite_small_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg The night of the shower peak was behind clouds but the evening after, on 14th December I had a chance of some meteor hunting. Although the circumstances were very far from being good, high humidity, shallow...

Zodiacal sky-o-meter http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3779/12873929763_b2a141c860_o.jpg The first evening of March brought beautiful clear sky and a chance to see the zodiacal light. At the hills of Bakony, near the village Hárskút, Hungary, I could find a dark sky location with a good view to the wes...

Autumn Red sprites http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3766/10322800176_879bd69a4a_o.jpg Bigger size: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7294/10322943183_fbc78c5d5f_o.jpg On the evening of 12nd October a small storm system crossed Hungary. After the main part of it has left my hometown, Veszprem, I saw that th...

ISS above moonlit autumn trees

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Pics taken on 13rd. October at Veszrprem, Hungary, image created with Startrails software
Photo credit: Monika Landy-Gyebnar

My husband took a virtual spacewalk following ISS - on the ground. He said he enjoyed it a lot! I watch and photograph ISS whenever I can, but wanted to do something funny so I asked my husband if he'd like to help me with it. As I described him what I planned he agreed as it seemed to be mad enough...

Perseid shower peak composite startrails image taken in Hungary, Bakony mountains, 12-08-2013 early evening Photo credits: Monika Landy-Gyebnar http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2886/9518622438_47f68eeea5_o.jpg (bigger size: http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2828/9515845905_d94af0e13a_o.jpg ) The composite ...

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3786/9317333324_25bd1b633e_o.jpg An early dawn startrail image taken at Lake Balaton, at the harbour of Alsóörs, on 18-07-2013 while I was waiting for Mars and Jupiter to emerge above the boats. A very light breeze was slowly moving the sailboats so the result of the i...

Zodiacal light in Tihany, Hungary http://users.atw.hu/egbolt/zodtihany0302_small.jpg (in bigger size: http://users.atw.hu/egbolt/zodtihany0302.jpg) March began with a cold front in Hungary and it sweeped out the cloudy-foggy weather which was over us in the whole winter. This was a perfect time for ...

http://users.atw.hu/egbolt/jupiter_rising_1201_small.jpg Jupiter was closest to Earth on 01-12-2012 just as it was rising in Hungary at 16:00 local time. The pic is a composite of a series taken an hour later when the planet appeared on my sky, from 16:54 to 17:12 local time (UT +1 hour). Each shot...

Equinox dawn 2012-09-22 http://users.atw.hu/egbolt/equinox_dawn_20120922_small.jpg In bigger size: http://users.atw.hu/egbolt/equinox_dawn_20120922.jpg Panoramic image taken at Márkó, Hungary at the small chapel by the village edge. Cirrus clouds were present and they enhanced the colours of the sta...

Celestial Y http://users.atw.hu/egbolt/y04small.jpg Big image: http://users.atw.hu/egbolt/y04.jpg Today after sunset the crescent Moon aligned with Mars, Saturn and Spica forming a shape that resembled the letter Y. It reminded me to the many questions beginning with "why" regarding astron...

http://users.atw.hu/egbolt/meteor_milkyway_0818_small.jpg Bright meteor and Milky Way at the Sea of Stones, Szentbékkálla, Hungary In big size: http://users.atw.hu/egbolt/meteor_milkyway_0818_big.jpg As the Milky Way appeared after the lights of sunset faded I began to shot some pics for a panorama...

Milky Way over sunflowers http://users.atw.hu/egbolt/sunflowers_milky_way_0716small.jpg It's a panorama image of 7 individual photoes taken at a sunflower field near Veszprem, Hungary. There's some orange coloured light pollution of Veszprem visible on the small clouds at the left side but between a...

Pleiades, Jupiter, Venus and Hyades on 10-07-2012 http://users.atw.hu/egbolt/conjunction_07102012.jpg Early dawn 10th July clouds came with a cold front but I had almost an hour of less cloudy Eastern sky while lightnings ( http://users.atw.hu/egbolt/stormy0710.jpg ) were visible behind. A short ser...

Landscape with rapse lit by the perigee Moon, Veszprem, Hungary , May 6th 2012 Startrails composed of 760 individual photoes, each with Nikon D5100 & 10mm Sigma lens @ F2.8, ISO1250, 8 sec. exposures http://users.atw.hu/egbolt/landscape_with_rapse_at_perigee_moon_small.jpg Larger image: http://u...