Mount teide stargazing trip

[Adidaz 29]

When up mount teide stargazing trip yesturday took my binos  and my st80 what I saw words can't describe it was the most spectacular thing I've ever seen andromeda clear as a bell with the naked eye and Venus looked the size of a cricket ball  seeing the Milky Way for the 1 st time took my breath away never seen so many stars I mean billions  Orion Nebula was very clear so was all the clusters

[ngwillym]

Yep, my first time up Teide I thought it was cloudy - until I realized it was the Milky Way!

[ronin]

Milky Way is spectacular, the catch being a lot of the constellations simply get lost in it. Cassiopeia, Taurus, Cygnus, Perseus, Aquila, most of Auriga and a good bit of even Orion get lost in amongst it. Makes life "difficult" but is a spectacular way having to relocate and identify all the ones we are used to in our light polluted skies.

[laudropb]

I hope to be up there in a week or so. The views are totally amazing.

[Peter Drew]

The recently formed Tenerife Astronomy Society <tenerifeastronomysociety@tenerifeastro> organise trips to Teide complete with telescopes. Worth checking out if visiting Tenerife.