Delta Scorpii 2011 - Day 0, June 27

After the preliminaries and preparations which took time and efforts, we, José Ribeiro and me, arrived at Tenerife.
Anatoly Miroshnichenko was waiting for us at Tenerife North airport and we shared the car up to the Observatory.

Now we wait for the arrival of Thierry Garrel who is expected tomorrow, 28.
Yesterday, after dinner, the 3 of us, Anatoly, Alberto and José Ribeiro, had a kind of chatting, in the open air, looking at the sky and at our target star in particular.
Today, 27, we all made a tour to the northeast of the island, coming back http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifthrough the mountains, from San Andrés to La Laguna and then to the Observatory.
At a certain point we stopped to watch an atmospheric phenomenon. A strong updraft of saturated air moved up the mountains, covering the tops with clouds. After passing the top, this air which is colder and denser, descended rapidly downhill, like a river of clouds which, in a short while dissipated.
See a short video at: http://youtu.be/YpBAAbQ-Zhw
By 21:00 hours we met IAC Technical Director, who was realigning the telescope, due to a recent realuminization of the mirror.


Tomorrow we will check the installation of the spectroscope, of the computers, test everything and, hopefully, have the first night of work in this campaign.
We will continue to report what is going on.

Alberto