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Hi,
It’s on that road but it’s 5-6 miles away in the direction of Venus in the picture, just shows how big the crater/caldera is!
Forgot to add, I put this picture on the Meteor Observers Forum too. Shows what the difference in latitude makes. Taken at 0506UT on the morning of the 6th May.
Hi Alex,
I had three great night observing from Tenerife and my total amounted to 6 eta aquarids! Not a great amount but it least it was a good break. Lovely weather down at sea level and beautiful skies higher up.
Interestingly whilst travelling to and from the location I use I saw several groups (with mini busses in layby’s) using telescopes and binoculars. Seems as though the “astro tourism” trade is really taking off.
cheers,
Bill.
Hi,
When is a Lyrid not a Lyrid? when you discover you actually caught it on another camera and it doesn’t go through the radiant!
A salutory reminder of the perils of visual observing, even with bright (this was -2/-3) meteors great care must be taken. Looks like this is a rather unique (spectrally) sporadic.
So no Lyrids after all. A total of 43hours 10 mins (times two for two cameras + some CCD time), oh well roll on the Eta Aquarids….
cheers,
Bill.
