Saturday May 25th
We (my partner Carole and I) flew from Gatwick to Tenerife using EasyJet EZY8703. The flight departed at 07:20 which meant we left Bristol just after 01:00 in the morning and drove to Gatwick arriving around 04:30. We checked in the bags and then had a bacon roll while we waited for the flight to be called.
Boarding and the flight were relatively trouble free. As it was half term the flight was full of families getting away for a warm break and the plane seemed to be full of restless children.
We arrived at 11:55 and we managed to meet up with some of the other members of the workshop before getting our bags and through passport control. Alyn was waiting for us in the arrivals lounge. You couldn’t miss him as he was carrying a Benro Tripod! Alyn drove the 6 of us; myself, Carole, Damian, John, Paul and Mike, (one other, Cat was arriving later in the day having travelled from the USA) to the Hotel Marqués Palace in Los Gigantes where we were allocated our apartments. We were on the 3rd floor in number 320.
The apartment was very spacious and well appointed with outstanding views over the swimming pool and adjacent rooms and more importantly, the sea.
After we had settled in, Alyn gave his first tutorial on the basics of astro-photography and after a bite to eat at the pool side café, Alyn took us out to photograph our first sunset.
Zodiacal light is a cone of eerie light at the sunset point on the horizon, after twilight ends. It is a roughly triangular shaped glow that is visible in the night sky and appears to extend from the Sun’s direction and along the zodiac, straddling the ecliptic. As the sun descends below the horizon the sunlight is scattered by interplanetary dust and ice and causes this phenomenon.
We left the park around midnight to journey back to the apartment as most of us had been up for 24 hours.
JL Photos 