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Size comparison of Venus, Moon and Mercury Copyright: György Soponyai It's possible to compare the apparent size of the Moon and the inner planets by capturing their silhouettes during solar eclipses and transits of Venus and Mercury. The past years I was able to observe and capture all of these ev...

Totality Copyright: György Soponyai This photo sequence was taken during the totality of the solar eclipse on 2024-04-08 in every five seconds. By enlarging the image you can inspect the slow move of the lunar disk in front of the prominences of the solar atmosphere. The rightmost photo was the fir...

The Final Moment Copyright: György Soponyai I observed and photographed the total Solar eclipse of 2024. from Montréal, at the shore of Saint Lawrence River. This photo was taken at the final moment of the 96-second-long totality, when the Sun shone through the deepest part of the Lunar limb. https...

The Sun in 2023 Copyright: György Soponyai I'm planning to continuously observe the Sun during a whole 11-year-long solar cycle. The first year of this project was 2023 when I captured the Solar disk with my camera in 194 days. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53445232496_24eee332b7_z.jpg 2023.0...

The Sun in 2023, as I saw Copyright: György Soponyai I'm planning to continuously observe the Sun during a whole 11-year-long solar cycle. The first year of this project was 2023 when I captured the Solar disk with my camera in 194 days (jan-mar: 34, apr-jun:47, jul-sep:59, oct-dec:54) . https://li...

Aurora above Hungary Copyright: György Soponyai Standing on 47° Northern latitude, Auroras are very rarely visible. If so, the result is a faint, almost invisible glow at the bottom of the Northern horizon. But on the evening of 2023-11-05, a once-in-a-lifetime unforeseen miracle was shining for mo...

The Edge of Darkness Copyright: György Soponyai The photos of the partial Lunar eclipse were taken in every 20 minutes. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53293562474_7cda7e7a43_z.jpg 2023.10.28-29. Mogyoród, Hungary Canon EOS RP + Tamron EF 150-600 + 2x extender @1200mm 1/200 sec, F 13, ISO 100

O and I Copyright: György Soponyai If we look up and follow the path of the Sun's position, usually we can draw a letter "C" to the sky. However there are locations on the Earth (the Polar Regions and the Equator) where sometimes you can draw other letters than "C" by using the ...

How the Moon Meets the Horizon Copyright: György Soponyai With these photos I would like to demonstrate the varigeation of moonrises and moonsets. The closer to Equator, the Moon rises and sets by a steeper and steeper angle. The upper left photo sequence was taken two weeks ago in Singapore. This ...

A Vertical Moonrise Copyright: György Soponyai On early dawn of 18th March I observed and photographed the rising crescent Moon from Singapore. This small city-state lies in the proximity of the Equator, where celestial objects rise and set vertically. In the foreground the 206m high Marina Bay San...

Christmas Eve Moon Copyright: György Soponyai I observed and captured the last waxing crescent Moon of 2022 on Chrismas Eve. At the time the photo was taken the age of the Moon was 29 hours and 03 minutes. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52583884669_e6af455ac2_z.jpg 2022.12.24. Mogyoród, Hungar...

Sunsets of a Year Copyright: György Soponyai This picture tries to demonstrate the movement of position of sunsets between two winter solstices photographed once every month near Mogyoród, Hungary. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52574840658_f753392600_z.jpg 2021.12.21 - 2022.12.18. Mogyoród, H...

Lunar Eclipse in Tokyo On the evening of 2022-11-08 I successfully observed and photographed the total Lunar eclipse from the capital of Japan. This eclipse had a once-in-a-lifetime speciality as during the event the Moon was conjugating with planet Uranus. And by viewing it in East-Asia, the Moon ...

Eclipse During Eclipse Copyright: György Soponyai On the evening of 2022-11-08 I successfully observed and photographed the total Lunar eclipse from the capital of Japan. This eclipse had a once-in-a-lifetime speciality as during the event the Moon was conjugating with planet Uranus. And by viewing...

Lunar Eclipse Sequence Copyright: György Soponyai On the evening of 2022-11-08 I successfully observed and photographed the total Lunar eclipse from the capital of Japan. Photos were taken in every 15 minutes with the best equipment I was able to pack into a hand baggage. https://live.staticflickr....

The Shadow of the Earth Copyright: György Soponyai There are three types of lunar eclipses: the barely noticeable penumbral eclipse, plus the spectacular partial and total eclipses. By this photo sequence (taken with the same equipment) I am trying to demonstrate the differences of these three ecli...

Lunar Eclipse and Uranus Copyright: György Soponyai On the evening of 2022-11-08 I successfully observed and photographed the total Lunar eclipse from the capital of Japan. This eclipse had a once-in-a-lifetime speciality as during the event the Moon was conjugating with planet Uranus. And by viewi...

Moonrise with mock moon Copyright: György Soponyai The Danube Bend (Dunakanyar) is often considered as one of the most beautiful part of river Danube, where it flows between Börzsöny Mountain and Visegrád Mountain. Standing at the foot of Börzsöny Mountain atop the lights of Nagymaros village was a...

Conjunction of Venus Copyright: György Soponyai Today planet Venus passed by above the Northern solar pole so it's completed yet another 17-month-long orbit around our Sun -- as seen from Earth. In fact, the Venus needs only 225 days for a completing an orbit but meanwhile the Earth proceeding on i...

The Evening Star Copyright: György Soponyai This photo presents the analemma-like celestial path of planet Venus on the Western sky between middle of May and the end of December capturing with a wide-field lens near Mogyoród, Hungary. The pictures were taken at the time when the Sun was located exa...

Solstices Copyright: György Soponyai These two photos were taken on the day of Summer Solstice of 2020 and on the day of Winter Solstice of 2021 near Mogyoród, Hungary. Besides demonstrating the celestial path of the Sun, we can recognise the village has been spread out in the past 1.5 years: a for...

Planetary Conjunction above Danube's Backwater Copyright: György Soponyai Today evening I observed and captured the four conjuncting planets on the Southwestern-Western sky near Tolna, Hungary (the small city where I spent my childhood). The backwater of river Danube was acting as a cool foreground...

Full Moon Rise at Abbey of Pannonhalma Copyright: György Soponyai Last Wednesday I travelled to Western Hungary in order to observe and capture the rising 99.9% Full Moon. Near Écs village, the Moon could be seen rising next and above the Abbey of Pannonhalma. This Abbey was founded in 996 and has ...

☾☾☾ @HHH Copyright: György Soponyai On Monday early dawn I observed and captured the rising crescent Moon from Guckler lookout tower at Hármashatár-hegy (HHH) . Look at the dance of the moonshine during the 12-minute-long exposure caused by the turbulent air. moonrise_at_HHH_cropped_s.jpg 2021.10.0...

The Ruins of Nógrád Castle Copyright: György Soponyai Castle of Nógrád is one of the oldest castle in Hungary, the first hillfort was built in the age of Barbarian Invasions. In the 1400s the fortress was restored and a four-level renaissance castle was also added/built. Between 1544-1594 and from ...