Total lunar eclipse over Teide crater, Tenerife – a project with many obstacles
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Re: Total lunar eclipse over Teide crater, Tenerife – a project with many obstacles
#2Greeting from Tenerife! Thanks for sharing such a great picture and timelapse showing Teide from an unconventional angle. I go to Izaña from time to time just to appreciate the sky and take some amateur pics with my Sony A7III. It is truly wonderful up there.
Re: Total lunar eclipse over Teide crater, Tenerife – a project with many obstacles
#3I felt my blood pressure spike at the mention of the people with the headlamps - I do astrophotography, and having an hour long exposure ruined because someone sauntered over with their high beams on is a touch infuriating.
Re: Total lunar eclipse over Teide crater, Tenerife – a project with many obstacles
#4I felt my blood pressure spike at the mention of the people with the headlamps - I do astrophotography, and having an hour long exposure ruined because someone sauntered over with their high beams on is a touch infuriating.
It should be said that in no way is anyone at fault for walking on a mountain at night using a headlamp. The onus is on the photographer to plan ways to avoid this issue affecting their work, or hope for a bit of luck. A saunterer may be searching for rare wildlife or any of countless other important projects that must be shared with others on the mountain.
Re: Total lunar eclipse over Teide crater, Tenerife – a project with many obstacles
#5I felt my blood pressure spike at the mention of the people with the headlamps - I do astrophotography, and having an hour long exposure ruined because someone sauntered over with their high beams on is a touch infuriating.
It should be said that in no way is anyone at fault for walking on a mountain at night using a headlamp. The onus is on the photographer to plan ways to avoid this issue affecting their work, or hope for a bit of luck. A saunterer may be searching for rare wildlife or any of countless other important projects that must be shared with others on the mountain.
I don't really understand this argument. What rare wildlife would it be necessary to find at night, that wouldn't also be disturbed by bright lamps? If you were looking for nocturnal animals you'd surely want your lamps off, and for anything else you could just search after sunrise.
Re: Total lunar eclipse over Teide crater, Tenerife – a project with many obstacles
#6The experience was really well told, enjoyed finally seeing the shots of the moon over the mountain. Really amazing shots. I have no idea how he got the exposure so well done for those.
Also recently: Blue Ghost lander captures sunset shots on moon before falling silent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410302
Re: Total lunar eclipse over Teide crater, Tenerife – a project with many obstacles
#7I felt my blood pressure spike at the mention of the people with the headlamps - I do astrophotography, and having an hour long exposure ruined because someone sauntered over with their high beams on is a touch infuriating.
I think its more troubling to think that someones Very Important Thing™ might be being disturbed by someone elses More Important Thing™.
Whining about flashlights ruining your shot is one thing - not having compassion for someone who might be searching the mountain for a lost colleague, or any one of a number of other possible scenarios, is another thing entirely.
Its quite psychopathic to not at least consider that there might have been a more noble purpose behind those flashlights than just "some random creep ruining my special shot".
In this scenario, the onus of responsibility is on the photographer, not the other visitors, to ensure the sterility of their scene. Why didn't the author climb up there and talk to them, or coordinate at the visitors center, or some such effort - instead of just immediately jumping to hostile blame.
Re: Total lunar eclipse over Teide crater, Tenerife – a project with many obstacles
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It should be said that in no way is anyone at fault for walking on a mountain at night using a headlamp. The onus is on the photographer to plan ways to avoid this issue affecting their work, or hope for a bit of luck. A saunterer may be searching for rare wildlife or any of countless other important projects that must be shared with others on the mountain.
I don't really understand this argument. What rare wildlife would it be necessary to find at night, that wouldn't also be disturbed by bright lamps? If you were looking for nocturnal animals you'd surely want your lamps off, and for anything else you could just search after sunrise.
Can't imagine any other scenario? Perhaps they were looking for a missing colleague? One would never know, for as long as hostility and antagonism is the reaction to assumptions made, instead of .. you know .. having empathy for someone out there on the mountain in the middle of the night, looking for something/someone ..
Re: Total lunar eclipse over Teide crater, Tenerife – a project with many obstacles
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't really understand this argument. What rare wildlife would it be necessary to find at night, that wouldn't also be disturbed by bright lamps? If you were looking for nocturnal animals you'd surely want your lamps off, and for anything else you could just search after sunrise.
Can't imagine any other scenario? Perhaps they were looking for a missing colleague? One would never know, for as long as hostility and antagonism is the reaction to assumptions made, instead of .. you know .. having empathy for someone out there on the mountain in the middle of the night, looking for something/someone ..
Sorry, but none of this makes any sense to me. First rare wildlife, now lost colleagues? Tenerife has a mountain rescue service with helicopters and off-roaders.
Having empathy is great, but it still most likely that the availability of ultra-bright lamps is causing people to use them unnecessarily. There is an abundance of evidence that artificial light hurts natural ecosystems, not to mention inconveniencing astrophotographers, and I don't think it's unreasonable to take a dim view of those who use bright lights in uninhabited environments like this.
Re: Total lunar eclipse over Teide crater, Tenerife – a project with many obstacles
#10I felt my blood pressure spike at the mention of the people with the headlamps - I do astrophotography, and having an hour long exposure ruined because someone sauntered over with their high beams on is a touch infuriating.
I hear a lot of astrophotographers take many short-exposure (5-10s) photos and then stich them together in POST. Missing 1 of possible 100 photos in OK I think?
Keeping in mind that you photographing a specific thing in the sky, not the startrails, as missing a frame will be very visible there.