Author: Kai Gaarder

My 6th night of observation started out with unusually high sporadic rates. The first hour I counted 17 sporadic meteors, and a high number of the meteors seemed to originate from the Cassiopeia region of the sky. The next hour...

Walking out to my fifth night of observations from Agios Pavlos, I was happy to see a clear and transparent sky, without the severe wind gusts that haunted me in some of the previous nights. I was eager to see if the SDA could...

Trying to avoid the problems with flying sand from the previous nights, I had found a rockier ground to make observation from. This fourth night of observation in my 2022 SDA campaign, started regardless out as calm and...

The third night of observations from Agios Pavlos started as a warm and windless night, with a small hint of haze near the horizon. With a temperature of 28 degrees Celsius, there was no need for any extra clothes or sleeping...

This was my second night observing from the dark site of Agios Pavlos in southern Crete. Like the previous night conditions were warm and windy, with some powerful gusts of wind making some minor problems with sand particles...