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Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan - Atlas from Meteora Greece! We had a very stressful adventure yesterday to be able and travel on time to the wonderful site of Meteora Greece to capture the comet. The image is an integration of 520sec for the sky and the ground below with a Sony A7s full frame dslr and ...

Perseus and his Fireflies! We had great weather on the night of the 14th of August and a magnificent show of Perseid meteors in Halkidiki Greece. For seven hours I recorded more than 15000 images and it was a long process to filter out all the satellites and airplanes from the images as I wanted to ...

Planetary alignment "just in time" I was out imaging red sprites all night long and as it moved to the south, the sky cleared up showing the planets and the moon just before the sunrise. It was an amazing view and a great example of the ecliptic in the sky in combination with the stormy we...

The Great Conjunction of the Giants!!! Some call it the star of Bethlehem but it really doesn't matter how you name it since such a rare event can only be a source of inspiration and that it happens at the end of such a weird year could be a good omen for the coming future. The magicians followed it...

Little Green Man on the August full Moon? In this single-shot image, you can see three little humans cheering up at the August Moon as it rises in Horigi Kilkis North Greece. I always wanted to create an image with humans in this beautiful location and the August Moon was the perfect timing to do so...

The Comet, the Bear and the Gorge! The day before yesterday I've managed to make an image I've been anticipating for quite some time now at the gorge of Vikos which according to the Guinness records book is the deepest on the planet if you measure the analogy of the width to the depth. I was thinkin...

Comet Neowise meets Meteora! After the image from Halkidiki I travelled for about three hours in the unique location of Meteora to view and capture the rare meeting of the comet with the amazing location of Meteora in Kalambaka Greece. It is an amazing experience to be able and see the comet on diff...

Comet Neowise C2020 F3 from the crystal clear sky of Rodokipos Halkidiki Greece as it appeared today 11/07/2020 at 01:20 UT. The comet is getting very bright and it barely fits into the frame of a full sensor camera with a 200mm lens as shown in this image that was created by combining 30 exposures ...

Wolf Moon and Penumbral Lunar Eclipse at Parthenon Athens Greece. The first full moon and so many things happening in one observation! I and my friend Giannis Rozakis went to view the eclipse and the full moon rising behind the temple of Parthenon last Friday night. We had great skies and under quit...

Quadrantid Meteor Shower Although I had no plans to go and observe/image the specific meteor shower because it's very challenging due to the season that occurs, we had crystal clear skies in Rodokipos Halkidiki Greece that it was too tempting not to go out and give it a try. I started m one hour tri...

Hi to all fellow sky observers, I hadn't been posting frequently but I have a good reason to send you this image of last weeks storm we had in Northern Greece in Halkidiki. As usually when I have indications for a local storm I take my gear and go as near as possible in order to capture the raw powe...

On our site, during totality, we watched a magnificent view of the Eclipse with planet Mars and the Milky Way. The site called Buharia is very unique for the Greek landscape and gave us an out of this world experience. Immediately it came to me the scenery of Star Wars movie from the planet with the...

The Pillars of Creation, Lunar Eclipse version! Last night we were blown away by the unique scenery of Buharia national park found in Northern Greece and the event of the Lunar Eclipse going through these unique natural columns. I knew that we had a very interesting location selected but when I view...

This morning 14th of December the sky cleared up for only an hour and gave an opportunity to capture and observe quite a few meteors. I counted more than 50 in on hour and had a once in a lifetime experience by witnessing the very bright and long meteor that was recorded near the center of the image...

Acropolis the Human Eye and ancient perfection. This image was made with my zoom setup but this time I wanted to achieve something that i always missed in my images with high dynamic range difference. I had to do a lot of testing and development to fully grasp the way we perceive light with our eyes...

Lunar Eclipse over Acropolis Athens We had a magnificent view of the partial Lunar Eclipse in Acropolis. During the highest touristic season, thousands of tourists flooded the nearby streets to watch this spectacular Moonrise as it would be eclipsed. I had to find a rooftop restaurant and get there ...

I've created this image to show the scale of the Solar System bodies during the total solar eclipse from Indonesia. The perspective is astonishing! I've seen nine total solar eclipses so far but the view of the large prominence with the unaided eye was just remarkable! I can't believe how lucky we w...

Sky conditions were excellent during the totality from Tidore Indonesia and some clouds right in the corner didn't stop the corona from being magnificent and well captured. Even the earthshine is very prominent in a single frame image. http://www.stellar-explosions.com/wp-content/uploads/MaxEclipseE...

I was in Tidore from where I had excellent sky conditions and managed to capture the flash spectrum and the spectrum of totality, I was astonished to see that even on the lower exposures made for the flash spectrum, the corona emitting at FeXIV was captured at the same time! I never thought that thi...

Amazing corona from today's solar eclipse! From Tidore Indonesia we had 3 minutes of a magnificent totality! I can't stop looking the large prominense right next to the Baileys Beads! It seemed as if the prominence was competing the Baileys Beads for which it will be more spectacular! http://www.ste...

Hello to all observers, All the fields now in Greece are been harvested and all that is left are the harvesting remnants. I've had the opportunity to make an image before they where processed by big tractors and when proceesing I've noticed the intense sky glow that was in the scene but couldn't see...

Hello to all sky observers! Here is an image I made at Meteora Kalambaka Greece. This time, weather was a big hustle as forecast was very bad for the site of Meteora but luckily clouds cleared just in time where totality was happening. I planned this image many months ahead of time and wanted to cap...

This summer in Greece, there has been many electrical storms and some very intense. I have seen some of the most interesting thunders and managed to capture some while watching many interesting effects like the flashover thunders that goes from the power grid columns to the sky in bright green glow....

Face to face with this summer's last full moon! The rocks on the left are seem to create a face looking at the face of the full Moon as if Autumn is looking face to face with Summer. Excellent weather conditions during this imaging session and a magnificent full moon is rising over the Megalithic mo...

Last week there was a very intense storm passing by from the city of Thessaloniki slowly but with many thunders going very fast to the ground. I have never seen this speed before and also the number of them in time. Me and my wife, were driving to get some night burgers and I was seeing the flashes ...