Geyser and Planets

[Liz]

Like .. WOW ... fabulous Colin.

[gregbradley]

Magnificent Colin.

Greg.

[Martin Pugh]

Very cool Colin

cheers
Martin

[astroron (Ron)]

Colin, I add my congratulations to all the others
Stunning image
Cheers

[skysurfer]

You mean El Tatio (Chile) ?

Amazing place !

I have been there twice.

[colinmlegg (Colin)]

Thanks again for the kind comments - Rolf, Barb, Liz, Greg, Martin, Ron.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Oh yeh?? Well...what about us idiotic portable deep sky imagers who travel back and forth to a dark sky site for 7 nights over a few weeks, setting up and packing up each time, in order to accumulate hours and hours of exposure...huh? ...only did it once

Mike

I'm in total awe of what you guys do as well. Just not as familiar with the trials and tribulations. I'm probably not patient enough to spend that much energy on a single shot. May do it one day, though. My last deep sky shots were on film in the distant past - 80s.

Originally Posted by skysurfer

You mean El Tatio (Chile) ?

Amazing place !

I have been there twice.

Actually, a couple of hundred km further north at the Puchuldiza geyser field. It's harder to get to, but it's geysers are more regular. The one I shot was going off every 20 minutes for about 5 minutes.

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Wow what an incredibly beautiful shot, just stunning!
It's interesting how this is also very much how one might expect the view to be as seen from the surface of Enceladus, with those water/ice geysers.

My favourite moon, Rolf. I guess I'll never see those geysers in person.

[dvj (John)]

I am actually more amazed at all the traveling you do. Cheers and a well done from me for the all the passion!

[Derek Klepp]

Thanks for agreat pic.

[gary]

A truly remarkable image that is both timeless and breathtaking.

[gary]

Originally Posted by colinmlegg

It took about 4 hours to drive to the spot, temps were around -10C and altitude 4300m. I had a splitting headache, even after drinking 5 litres of water ...

Colin,

Ironically, fit, young males are more likely to suffer from
Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) than any any other demographic.

You therefore know what to do next time.

P.S.

Driving up there that quickly can bring it on. Unless you get back down to under 3050m (10,000')
the headache can linger for one to four days and you can feel like you are coming down with the flu.

[colinmlegg (Colin)]

Cheers John, Derek, Gary.

Originally Posted by gary

Colin,

Ironically, fit, young males are more likely to suffer from
Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) than any any other demographic.

You therefore know what to do next time.

P.S.

Driving up there that quickly can bring it on. Unless you get back down to under 3050m (10,000')
the headache can linger for one to four days and you can feel like you are coming down with the flu.

Yes, I went up too quick. I did stay at 2000m for a couple of nights first, but should have stayed higher in retrospect. Limited accomodation in the area. From past experience I knew I had to drink heaps of water to minimize the symptoms. The headache throbbed like crazy till 2am, then disappeared. At that point I think my body adjusted and started absorbing the water. 2 nights later all was fine (I went back to 2000m for the night in between).

[CometGuy]

Hi Colin,

Stunning image.

With the blue-grey surrounding ground, and the overexposed moon in the background I could almost imagine your image depicts standing on Saturn's moon Enceladus and looking back at the sun with one of it's Ice geysers in the foreground! Once again well done!

Terry

[colinmlegg (Colin)]

Originally Posted by CometGuy

Hi Colin,

Stunning image.

With the blue-grey surrounding ground, and the overexposed moon in the background I could almost imagine your image depicts standing on Saturn's moon Enceladus and looking back at the sun with one of it's Ice geysers in the foreground! Once again well done!

Terry

Cheers Terry! I might send a print to the Cassini ISS team as a small token of thanks for all the inspiration!

[h0ughy (David)]

wonderful shot - did you take that on the morning of the 12th August- looked very familiar to the sky i saw at astrofest - so what planet are you on

well i see the next Malin here!!!!

[colinmlegg (Colin)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

wonderful shot - did you take that on the morning of the 12th August- looked very familiar to the sky i saw at astrofest - so what planet are you on

well i see the next Malin here!!!!

Thanks Houghy. Yes, I think the shot was taken 12 hours after your obs.

[RB (Andrew)]

Oh what a wonderful image Colin !!!

RB

[rcheshire (Rowland)]

That's superb.