Starship Asterisk*

Yet another Mercury transit photo sequence
Copyright: György Soponyai

Photos were taken in every 5 minutes.



2019.11.11, Dunakeszi, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + SkyWatcher 254/1200 Dobsonian

Sitting at the Riverbank Copyright: György Soponyai 47-hour-old waning crescent Moon is rising above Freedom Bridge, Budapest. The driftwood "guerilla art" sitting at the bank of river Danube was made by Dima Shlyonkin. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48963145113_82a7020a64_z.jpg Phot...

A Bridge Not Too Far Copyright: György Soponyai 47-hour-old crescent Moon is about to set behind Eastern pillar of Megyeri bridge. This bridge is the northernmost and youngest one of Budapest. Fun fact: it was opened on 30th September 2009 so the photo was taken on its 11th birthday. :) https://liv...

Analemma of the Sun Copyright: György Soponyai My fourth Solar analemma photo was taken between 2018-09-24 and 2019-09-15 at local noon (11:44 CET) in Budapest. Standing on Margaret Bridge and looking to South you can enjoy the most breathtaking panorama of the capital city of Hungary: the building...

Fireball Copyright: György Soponyai After the first night of the annular astro camp of Hungarian Astronomical Association, on the morning of 26th July 2019 I wrote the following post about my experiences: The most beautiful, brightest, most spectacular fireball of my life so far! My first fireball ...

A Cloudy Night in the Astro Camp Copyright: György Soponyai The annual astro camp of Hungarian Astronomical Association is held in Gerecse Mountain near Tarján (~50km southwest from Budapest). Every year ~ 300-400 amateur astronomers come together for common sky-wathcing in a long weekend. This yea...

The Edge of Darkness
Copyright: György Soponyai


Photos were taken in 15 minutes.

2019.07.16-17. Budapest, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Tamron EF 150-600 @600mm
15 x 1/50sec, F6.3, ISO100

Some Minimalist Moonset Copyright: György Soponyai Hey, if you are bored of the wonderful-indeed solar eclipse photos here is a minimalist moonset photo captured yesterday: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48203824757_0bebdb1c21_z.jpg :) 2019.07.04. Dunakeszi, Hungary Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Tamr...

Moonset at Tromsø Copyright: György Soponyai The picture was taken shortly before local midnight (at 00:27) . The snow of the mountains is being painted to pale pink by the Midnight Sun above the Northern horizon: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48103023291_2290128679_z.jpg Photo details: 2019....

The Longest Day (another approach) Copyright: György Soponyai Last week I spent two days in Northern Norway in order to observe and capture the Midnight Sun the first time in my life. Atop Storsteinen mountain 420 meters above the sea level there is a good overview towards Northern direction with t...

The Longest Day Copyright: György Soponyai Last week I spent two days in Northern Norway in order to observe and capture the Midnight Sun the first time in my life. Atop Storsteinen mountain 420 meters above the sea level there is a good overview towards Northern direction with the Tromsøya Island ...

The Gallery
Copyright: György Soponyai



2019.05.10. Tiszafüred, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Samyang EF 24/1.4
87 x 45 sec, F2.0, ISO 160

The Ten Seconds of Moonset
Copyright: György Soponyai



2019.02.06. Mogyoród, Hungary

Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Tamron EF 150-600 @600 mm
105 x 1 sec, F6.3, ISO 250

Analemma of the Sun Copyright: György Soponyai Two and half year ago I completed my third analemma project. My original idea was to create an all-sky scene with positioning the camera upwards but then somehow I found a wide-screen approach seems more exciting. Now I was wondering how the photo woul...

Halo over the Sleeping City Copyright: György Soponyai One day after the first Lunar Eclipse of the year, the still-almost-full Moon surrounded by a wonderful halo was passing the meridian shortly after midnight. This photo was taken by standing on the middle of Margaret Bridge. Facing south the ba...

The Statue of Miska the Hussar Copyright: György Soponyai Pákozd village was the location of one of the most important battle in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, fought on 29th September 1848. The greatest part of the Hungarian victory was contributed by the Hussars. Hussars were members of a clas...

Moonrise above Budapest
Copyright: György Soponyai



Photo details:
2018.11.06. Budapest, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Canon EF 200/2.8L
1.6 sec, F 2.8, ISO 1250

My little prison planet Copyright: György Soponyai Taken atop of Ranzinger Vince lookout tower, near Tatabánya. The tower is a 30-meter-high mine cage built in 1980 in the memory of stone mining of the area. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4853/31873194648_2d90783c5b_z.jpg Photo details: 2018.10.31....

Moontrail Copyright: György Soponyai I wanted to create some kind of black-yellow-black "Lunar flag" photo. This is an experimental image as using long exposure times I have always been preferring star stacking instead of one long shot. But with extreme telephoto lens the 1 - 1.5 second g...

Epicycle Copyright: György Soponyai This photo depicts the retrograde loop of Mars as seen between 2018-07-11 and 2018-10-16. The foreground was taken near Tarján, Hungary on 5th October. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1902/30462968437_23ffabe06c_z.jpg Foreground details: Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Can...

Startrails at the Danube Copyright: György Soponyai This coal loader station is located at the shore of river Danube near Esztergom, Hungary. The station was built in 1927 as destination of a six-kilometer-long cableway connecting the nearby coal mines with transporter ships. The daily capacity of ...

The Crystal Ball Copyright: György Soponyai The annual astro camp of Hungarian Astronomical Association is held in Gerecse Mountain near Tarján (~50km southwest from Budapest) . Every year ~ 300-400 amateur astronomers come together for common sky-wathcing in a long weekend. I always try to figure ...

Red Moon Rising
Copyright: György Soponyai


Photo details:
2018.06.01. Somoskő, Slovakia
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Tamron EF 150-600 F5-6.3
600mm, 0.5sec, ISO 4000, F6.3

Lunar Cycle Copyright: György Soponyai I've been unsuccessfully trying to complete a whole Lunar cycle capturing project for months as bad weather and clouds always made me stop after 5-10 days. The previous month was an exceptionally cloudless/clear one so here is the result at last: https://farm1...

Geminids 2017 Copyright: György Soponyai On the night of 13th December 2017 I decided to travel to Galyatető in the Mátra mountains for capturing the outburst of Geminids meteor shower. Here the elevation is 985 meters (955 + 30 of the tower) that is slightly lower than the height of Kékes (1014m),...