May 29th 2025

At the end of May 27th, at 23h13 UT, a bright and nice fireball crossed the west Granada Skies in South Spain.

This event was registered with the SMART Project’s detectors operated at Calar Alto (Almería), La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), Otura (Granada), Huelva and Seville observatories.

One of the external cameras of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería, also could follow this nice object.

January 24th 2025

During the early morning of January 24^th 2025, at 06h20 UT, an impressive fireball crossed the skies of Albacete, Murcia and Alicante in Southeast Spain.

The event was registered with the SMART Project’s detectors operated at Calar Alto (Almería), La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), Otura (Granada), Marçà (Tarragona) and Seville observatories.

In this case this object was also followed by three of the external cameras located at Calar Alto Observatory.

January 11th 2025

After the impressive fireball of January 9^th, one day after, another object could be observed in this case above south Spain, between Málaga and Benalmádena.

SMART Project’s detectors registered this event. This time, the firewall was followed with the detectors operated at Calar Alto (Almería), La Hita (Toledo), Huelva, Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), Otura (Granada) and Seville observatories.

And again, two of the external cameras located at Calar Alto Observatory in Almería also recorded this nice fireball.

January 10th 2025

Last night of January 9^th  2025, a bright fireball could be observed above Palencia and León provinces in northern Spain.

This event was registered with the SMART Project’s detectors operated at Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada and La Sagra (Granada), Olocau (Valencia), La Hita (Toledo), Faro de Cullera (Valencia) and Marçà (Tarragona)

Although Palencia and León are 600 km away from Calar Alto Observatory in Almería, two of its external cameras could also follow this object.

October 14th 2024

Last October 10th 2024, a magnificent aurora borealis illuminated skies around all Europe. Even on such southern places as Calar Alto Observatory, Almería (South Spain), the aurora could be observed plenty of red light. May be the most impressive effect were the pillars, an unusual phenomena rarely seen on southern latitudes like Almería.

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