Night Fewbie Desert Drive - Al Fayah Moon Watching - Abu Dhabi - 5 Nov 2025

[Gaurav]

https://www.space.com/stargazing/meteor-showers/dont-miss-the-southern-taurid-meteor-shower-peak-overnight-on-nov-4-2025

[_luke_]

oh nice! these should be good. Hope we can spot some tonight! thx for the link @Gaurav

10 minutes ago, Gaurav said:

https://www.space.com/stargazing/meteor-showers/dont-miss-the-southern-taurid-meteor-shower-peak-overnight-on-nov-4-2025

 

[Mike M.]

Hoping this sandstorm clears so that we get to see further a bit. 

[Gaurav]

Very nice concept and plan @Luke K P, to celebrate the first full moon of the winter season.

This must be a real winter welcome drive with astro confirmation.

Enjoy guys, have fun tonight and take a lot of pictures.

[Thomas54675]

@Luke K P sorry Luke I have to cancel. My Car is in the workshop and need to replace the front Ball joints which they will get later this evening or tomorrow. Me no Happy 

[_luke_]

44 minutes ago, Thomas54675 said:

@Luke K P sorry Luke I have to cancel. My Car is in the workshop and need to replace the front Ball joints which they will get later this evening or tomorrow. Me no Happy 

No Problem @Thomas54675. There will be plenty more night drives to join in the future.

54 minutes ago, Mike M. said:

Hoping this sandstorm clears so that we get to see further a bit. 

@Mike M. Fingers Crossed!

54 minutes ago, Gaurav said:

Very nice concept and plan @Luke K P, to celebrate the first full moon of the winter season.

This must be a real winter welcome drive with astro confirmation.

Enjoy guys, have fun tonight and take a lot of pictures.

@GauravI'm sure we will be filling up the galleries tomorrow with lots of blurry pictures taken in the dark 😅 

[_luke_]

Hello Night Riders!
@Zsolt @Jose Luis Campos @Ash S. @Diego @Herman G @nithish468 @Michael asir @Zulfikhar Naiyar @Suneedh Wrangler @ChrisW

Its a dusty day, but the dust cant hold back us or the moon!

RSVP is now closed, convoy order as below. See you at 20:00 ready for briefing, radio channel 8 (446.181)

Don't forget a chair to watch the moon from when we have our moon watching break.

[_Herman_]

Adding my pictures here as the gallery gods have no mercy with me today

[_luke_]

Nice driving everyone! It was a nice cool night this evening  😌

We had a quick briefing at 20:00 and started moving on a zig zag path through the dunes. We slowly built up some pace as we ventured into the larger dunes. I managed to guide.us directly into a super soft sand pocket (on purpose of course!) so that @ChrisW could get some extra winching practice 😅

As we moved towards our moon watching location I managed to get a flat tyre, and @Jose Luis Campos had an issue with his hand brake and a rouge battery. Masterfully recovered Jose 👏

At the moon spot I tried to get my telescope to work but was thwarted by technical issues... Luckily @Herman G had brought along his scope too to get some close up 50x zoom glimpses of the Frost Moon.

@Ash S. Congrats on doing your first FB drive in the dark. Well managed throughout 👏 @Suneedh Wrangler my first time driving with you, hope you and your son enjoyed out visit to Fayah. It was your first FB drive as well👏 well done!!

Great way to spend a Wednesday evening with all of you @Zsolt @Diego @nithish468 @Zulfikhar Naiyar @Michael asir @ChrisW @Herman G @Ash S. @Jose Luis Campos @Suneedh Wrangler

 

Special hat tip to Zulfi, Jose and Chris for supporting us and picking up the 2L Support and Sweeping duties tonight 👏👏👏

 

[Suneedh Wrangler]

@Luke K P Thanks Luke for a great drive! It was technical at times, but enjoy every bit of the challenge.

Son loved the dunes! Spent some quality time

Thanks and I will catch you again some time in the dunes!