Uroš Fink fears not long treks in the freezing cold winter in meter high snow—not even in the dead of midnight. The 31-year-old astrophotographer from Slovenia is driven by a desire to take breathtaking images of our Milky Way. The young engineer with a passion for shooting the night sky set out last December on one such excursion at Big Pasture Plateau, which yielded Uroš an award-winning image in the astro-landscape photography milieu. He booked a cozy little hut on that particular plateau in the country’s northern region and, after much notetaking, planning, and scouting out the perfect composition during the day, he set out as darkness fell. The timing that month would also be perfect to catch a cameo appearance by Comet Leonard, the brightest comet of the year, with its signature tail and fuzzy green glow as it sailed past planet Earth. “My legs were tired even before …
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