March 12th 2023

A very bright fireball flew above Madrid and Segovia provinces at 01h24 UT of March 12^th 2023.

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

Despite the big distance between Segovia and Calar Alto in Almería, this phenomena was also recorded with two of the external cameras of this observatory.

March 09th, 2029

At 22:15 UT on March 9, 2023, a bright fireball could be seen from the province of Jaen that crossed the sky in the direction of Ciudad Real (northeast).

This object was registered in the SMART Project detectors operated in Calar Alto (Almería), La Sagra (Granada), La Hita (Toledo) and OSN.

On this occasion, two of the external surveillance web cameras that operate at the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería also recorded the beautiful and cloudy event.

March 3rd 2023

The first two fireballs of March happened over Morocco (the first one) at 03h56 UT, and over Jaén, Granada and Almería provinces (Southeast Spain) the second one at 21h39 UT, both on March 2^nd 2023.

These events were registered with the SMART Project’s detectors operated at Ayora (Valencia), Huelva, La Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), Seville and El Aljarafe (Seville).

Four of the external cameras of Calar Alto Observatory (Almería) also recorded these fireballs.

February 4th 2023

Last February the first, at 20h04 UT, a bright fireball was observed in the skies over northern Morocco and Algeria.

The phenomena was registered with the SMART Project’s detector located at Calar Alto (Almería), Huelva, La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada) and Seville observatories. 

Two of the external cameras operated at Calar Alto Observatory in Almería, were also able to follow this event.

January 11th 2023

During the last night of January 16, 2023 at 18:48 UT, a fireball could be observed that crossed the Strait of Gilbraltar towards the African continent, leaving a beautiful wake in its wake.

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

Several of the external cameras of Calar Alto Observatory in Almería also could follow this event.