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Originally Posted by ausastronomer
I agree with everything Stephen has said except for the above point.
Whilst you shouldn't drive in with high beams on lighting the place up like Luna Park, you should drive in (and leave) very slowly with enough lights on to see where you are driving and ensuring the safety to everyone and everything that might be in your path. You don't need to hit a child or put your car into a gully or the like because you were driving in with no lights on to preserve the night vision of a few selfish individuals. People will yell and scream at you, let them. I just tell them where to get off.
Laboratory tests have proven that dark adaption is only momentarily affected by "brief" exposures to white light (less than 30 seconds) and will recover within 1 or 2 minutes. It will take an injured person, animal or child a lot longer than that to recover if it is damaged.
Cheers,
John B
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Agree with you there, John. Perhaps I should have clarified this point. Don't come tearing into the site at dusk or later with your headlights on High beam, totally unannounced.
As I have had to do in the past, if you are arriving during twilight, or you feel there may be people already set up and imaging, perhaps stop over the hill, or down the road a bit, and walk up to the site to investigate it, and then proceed with low beams or parking lights. But every situation is different. In the end, try to get there and set up before sunset, I guess
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I have never been phased with someone driving in with parking lights on or even low beams, just lok the other way. Having said that I'm not a fussy imager
