| Distance | 276 Kilometers |
| By | Pedro Miguel Mas Pons |
| Camera | Nikon D7200 @ ISO100 – 1/100s |
| Lens | Nikon 18-200 f/3.5-5.6 @300 mm – f/8.0 |
| Date | September 4th, 2020 – 21:30 h |
| Distance | 132 Kilometers |
| By | Juanjo Diaz de Argandoña |
| Camera | Nikon D5100 @ ISO250 – 1/250 s |
| Lens | TS Photo Line 115 mm. f/7 Triplet APO |
| Date | May 24th 2020 – 19:35 |
First light on the new TS APO Refractor on the most iconic Mountain in Germany (and also, the highest) which is a landmark clearly seen from München on clear days.
This time, specially clear air allows us to see even the summit facilities.
And, if looking closely, also the very cable from the cable car can be seen descending into the Valley, in Garmisch – Partenkirchen.
To achieve the very high quality of this shot, I have used a technique which comes from Astrophotography and helps reduce the noise of DSLR images to an incredible amount: Stacking.
In Stacking, several images are taken at once (instead of a single shot) and combined in any image processing software (such as Photoshop). This removes the statistically random variablity of noise between the pixels and keeps the original object of the image much clearer.
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| Distance | 238 Kilometers |
| By | Charles Troupin |
| Camera | Canon EOS 7D @ ISO250 – 1/80s |
| Lens | 100 – 400 @ 350mm. f/11 |
| Date | September 25th 2018 – 18:00 |
Continue readingAnother great Picture from Charles, this time from the Coast of Slovenia, where in a clear Autumn day he was able to spot the Alps in the horizon.
A classic view of the far distant mountains over the sea line, crossing over the entire width of the Adriatic Sea.
Usually, the light of the afternoon (and the sunrise) will help to detect distant objects, as it improves the contrast ratio between the mountains and the background.
You can always find more in: Visibility Facts
A part of the Isle of Man and more distant landscapes to the north. Click to enlarge. Really a wonderful wiew from the highest point of Wales, looking to Scotland at 223 Kms.
May be the most distant picture between landscapes in the British islands?
We haven’t notice about anything far awaw!. Thanks a lot Kriss Williams!
We can compare the picture with this virtual panorama. In this case this graffic has been generated for Jonathan Ferranti and also shown in his excellent website: Wiewfinderpanoramas.org. You can read his description also with more details. He’s really an expert about distant horizons also and he developed a simulator of panoramas of high quality. In addition, in his country he’s especially knowledgeable about its landscapes and all its max. potential.
CAMERA DATA:
| Distance | 223 Kilometers |
| By | Kriss Williams |
| Camera | Sony SLT-A99V. ISO:500 |
| Oberture and time | 40 mm v:1/4 |
| Date | 15 July 2015 |
METEOROLOGICAL DATA
Metoffice showed a High-pressure Atlantic ridge began to enter the territory, providing clean and calmer air. On the other hand, we also have to take into account the light factor. At that time of the year, both the light of the morning dawn and the twilight in the afternoon occur in the north quadrant for medium-high latitudes, so this facilitates a good visual contrast due to the screen effect if the air is transparent. That’s for the same reason that we’ve sometimes get distant views of the Alps from the Pyrenees.
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| Distance | 278 Kilometers |
| By | José A. Quirantes |
| Camera | Cámara Canon EOS 5D MKII @ ISO100 1/640s |
| Lens | Sigma 100 – @ 400mm. f/8 |
| Date | December 30th 2019 – 13:35 |
Across the flat plains of Northern Spain – although, a plateau – one can clearly see the Mountain Ridge that separates this plateau from the Ocean.
In this magic December morning, the view is incredibly clear, up to the point to see most of the details in the distant mountains with perfect clarity.
Thank you for Jose A. for sharing it with us!
The simulation from Ulrich Deutschle webpage can be seen here:
| Distance | 100 Kilometers |
| By | Juanjo Diaz de Argandoña |
| Camera | Nikon D5100 @ ISO125 – 1/250 s |
| Lens | TS Photo Line 115 mm. f/7 Triplet APO |
| Date | May 24th 2020 – 19:45 |
First light on the new TS APO Refractor on the most iconic Mountain in Germany (and also, the highest) which is a landmark clearly seen from München on clear days.
This time, specially clear air allows us to see even the summit facilities.
And, if looking closely, also the very cable from the cable car can be seen descending into the Valley, in Garmisch – Partenkirchen.
To achieve the very high quality of this shot, I have used a technique which comes from Astrophotography and helps reduce the noise of DSLR images to an incredible amount: Stacking.
In Stacking, several images are taken at once (instead of a single shot) and combined in any image processing software (such as Photoshop). This removes the statistically random variablity of noise between the pixels and keeps the original object of the image much clearer.
We live in difficult and special times. The coronavirus pandemic has triggered a series of measures around the world aimed at health prevention and hindering the transmission of the virus. The world economy has suffered a major halt, with the damages that this entails for many people and other problems derived from the more or less forced seclusion of millions of individuals, but collaterally the phenomenon of #lockdown is having other effects. The great decrease in air pollution, especially in the most populated urban and semi-urban areas of the planet.
The decrease in pollution is better health (4’2 milion people die every year in the world due to this factor) and at the same time .. The skies of many parts of the world, suddenly have begun to look cleaner. Visibility has been increasing regularly in its distance potential, highly diminished in recent decades, especially in South and East Asia, but also in regions of the USA and Europe. In some cases the new generations have realized for the first time in their life of mountains that they have always or almost always been hidden from their eyes. In turn, older people have rediscovered them, many with nostalgic feel, from the time when such episodes of good transparency often happened and the only limitations in visibility were given by meteorological aspects.
The global nature of the pandemic and the measures recommended by the WHO that are applied in many countries to varying degrees means that the increase in atmospheric transparency is taking place in many parts of the world, but above all we are going to focus on one country, India, in which the surprises of the people (and not only of the most systemic photographers or observers) have been such that they have spread in the media around the world. Two factors have contributed to this: The fact that the country had been one of the most affected by pollution of human origin and the existence of an immense mountain range, the Himalayas, the largest in the world, in front of their eyes, for all who live in the northern zone.
Our objective when wanting to make an article, was first to report the first case of the vision of these mountains from the Indian plain, but we intuit that more episodes of this type would occur within the period of confinement and as a result, we make a selection of the landscapes that the covid phenomenon has opened before the eyes of millions of people. In most cases, the authors of these photographs have not been professionals in landscape photography, but sensitive people whose admiration for what was discovered before their eyes has made them portray the horizon with cameras or smartphones.April 3rd
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| Distance | 200 Kilometers |
| By | Charles Troupin |
| Camera | Canon 7D @ ISO640 1/200s |
| Lens | 100 – 400 @ 400mm. f/5.7 |
| Date | March 29th 2020 – 07:58 |
Continue readingThe Canary Islands are a place with great potential for Distant Sights, mainly for the great height and the distance between the islands. Usually, the pictures we have received involve the Teide Peak (3.718 m) – this highest in Spain – but in this case the view is from Gran Canaria onto Lanzarote, the first of its kind!
Thank you Charles for sharing it with us.
| Distance | 294 Kilometers |
| By | Juanjo Diaz de Argandoña |
| Camera | Nikon D5100 @ ISO200 – 2.5 s |
| Lens | ED80 APO Refractor Telescope (900 mm. equiv.) |
| Date | August 12th 2017 – 06:00 |
Continue readingMont Ventoux is a mountain clearly known for the Tour de France, when it provides everyone with a fantastic show.
Nevertheless, this is not the only show provided by Mont Ventoux, as it is an iconic landmark as seen from Canigou, at the other side of Golfe du Lyon.
The view of its shadow, together with the lights of the villages below is something remarkable.
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