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Some of my best sky photos of 2025, part 2. Only just now found the time to go through them and chose some nice ones for you ;) Last year was pretty good and eventful for all astro folks. Plenty of comets, meteor showers, lunar and sun eclipse, many auroras, sun dogs, light pillars, noctilucent clouds, etc. Not always the weather was cooperating, but I got quite a luck in some cases, like in my last aurora photos or with a lunar eclipse, as the clouds made a small window just for the moon for me to see, even though it was all cloudy everywhere else, like in a whole country. Hopefully the next year will be as great! Still not sure if I should go to Spain for the total solar eclipse. Don't really feel like it, but that's not a common opportunity 😅 On photos: NLCs, waxing crescent Moon _________________________________ You can find me on: (@Luupetitek) Cara | Deviantart | Ko-Fi donations

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