September 27, 2021
Fig. 1. Visigoth Basilica of Santa Lucía del Trampal. Credit: Turismo Extremadura. Known as the only building from the Visigoth era in the southern half of […]
September 27, 2021
Completely autonomous, not invasive, and low-cost. This is the new SG-WAS (SkyGlow Wireless Autonomous Sensor) which will help to measure the impact of artificial night lighting […]
August 3, 2021
Perseids seen from the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory. Credit: Antonio González (Cielos-LaPalma.com) For yet another year the sky-live.tv channel will be broadcasting the maximum of […]
July 16, 2021
With the installation of the Caldeirão do Corvo photometer, the first phase of the Interreg EELabs photometer network that will measure the darkness of the Corvo […]
June 23, 2021
Fig 1. The Tejeda valley, bathed by the Geminids 2020 meteor shower. In the sky, in addition to the luminous traces of the Geminids, the constellation Orion […]
June 23, 2021
Figure 1. MiNiO controller and photometer of the EELabs project at the top base of the cable car. Behind, the ascent to the crater of the […]
May 26, 2021
A recent study analyses data collect4d at 44 of the darkest places in the world, including the Canary Island Observatories, to develop the first complete reference […]
May 26, 2021
On May 5th the Earth will pass through the cloud of dust and small fragments of rock which comet 1P/Halley left behind during one of its […]
January 4, 2021
The Quadrantids 2021 will be broadcast live in the early hours of January 3rd from the Canary Observatories, via the sky-live.tv channel, with the collaboration of the European Project Interreg EELabs and the Innovation Service of the Cabildo of the Island of La Palma.
January 4, 2021
During the nights of 12th and 13th of December we will enjoy the peak of the Geminid meteor shower. This will be broadcast live from the Canary Island Observatories via the sky-live.tv channel, with the collaboration with the Energy Efficiency Labs (EELabs) project and the Programme of Astronomical Outreach of SODEPAL and the Innovation Service of the Cabildo Insular of La Palma.
November 5, 2020
Credit: Tânia Pipa (SPEA Açores) From 26 to 30 October, every night between 9pm and 4am there was a blackout on Corvo island, Azores. The island’s […]
October 7, 2020
Speakers at the First Conference on Sky Protection and Employment Opportunities in La Palma “Santa Cruz de La Palma was the first city in the Canary […]
September 28, 2020
Equinoctial sunrise (19 March 2019) from the Lácara dolmen (La Nava de Santiago, Extremadura, Spain). Although the alignment of the corridor does not exactly coincide with […]
September 24, 2020
Francisco Martín Simón, Director General of Tourism of the Junta de Extermadura, and Miquel Serra-Ricart , astronomer at the IAC. Credit: D. Padrón (sky-live.tv). Light pollution […]
September 17, 2020
Photometers in their calibration phase at the Teide Observatory. Credit: Alejandra Rueda (IAC) After several months of waiting, this summer the EELabs project, led by the […]