I was so fortunate to witness this amazing phenomenon this morning – photo taken from my balcony. For those interested, this is called a 22° Halo and it is produced by light interacting with ice crystals in the atmosphere…
Don´t forget, folks! Get yourself out to a really really dark location tonight after midnight to watch the Perseids, best seen in the Eastern sky (along with the brilliant Venus, Jupiter and the crescent moon) an hour or so before dawn. Last year I was freezing my a*se off watching this and only managed to…
04:30 hrs. I don’t think I have ever seen a night sky as clear as right now from my balcony, even with all the light pollution here in Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote. The usually rather faint looking constellations of Scorpio and Sagittarius in the South are particularly pretty and there are billions of tiny, nameless…