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Member Reports from Alex Tudorica

Feb 20
2013

Fireball over Teide Observatory

After ascending to 3100m to Tenerife's Pico Viejo on last Saturday (10th of November) and descending at night, the whole party of five was quite tired (after all, the sign at the beginning of the path was marked with the "Extreme difficulty" distinction). Although the initial plan was to spend the night under the stars together, the others gave in to thirst, hunger and tiredness but I could only ask them to leave me closer to the Teide Observatory : it was a night close the Taurid meteor shower maximum and some bright meteors were promised. At least for my... Read More...