February 1st 2024

Last January 30th 2024, at 22h17 UT, a bright fireball could be seen flying above southest Spain, crossing the southern part of Granada and Almería provinces, near the coast, in a long run.

This event was 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.

The object was very high above the horizon, and only one of the external cameras operated at Calar Alto Observatory in Almería, recorded this nice fireball.

January 21th 2024

At 20:03 UT on the night of January 21, a spectacular comet-originated fireball lit up the skies over Huelva, gracefully heading towards the southern coasts.

This phenomenon was meticulously captured by the detectors of the SMART Project, deployed in strategic observatories such as Calar Alto (Almería), La Hita (Toledo), Huelva, Sierra Nevada, La Sagra (Granada), Sevilla, and Aljarafe (Seville).

November 24th 2023

Last weekend Calar Alto external cameras registered the impressive images of the France test missile. 

This event was recorded with two of the external cameras operated at Calar Alto Observatory in Almería (South Spain)

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September 13th 2023

At 02:06 UT on September 13, 2023, a bright fireball could be seen crossing the sky over the province of Granada in a northerly direction.

This object was recorded in the SMART Project detectors operated in Calar Alto (Almería), Huelva, La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada, La Sagra (Granada) and Seville.

September 8th 2023

At 21:40 UT on September 8th, 2023, a fireball could be seen crossing the sky over the center of Andalucia between the provinces of Granada and Córdoba in a northern direction.

This object was registered in the SMART Project detectors operated in Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada and La Sagra (Granada), La Hita (Toledo), Sevilla and Huelva observatories.