South America (2): Introduction to Chile and the Solar Eclipse

Valparaiso, Solar Eclipse and the Penguins

Let me tell you about the mega trip of about 6,000 euros for a month in South America, the trip where I visited Buenos Aires in Argentina, Chile, saw the solar eclipse in Chile, went to the desert, took night photos, I saw petroglyphs in the desert but also Easter Island in the Pacific 3,500 km from the coast, I was in the salt desert of Bolivia with its cacti island, I saw Machu Pichu, Nazca and the old pyramids of Caral. Really fascinated.

Most of the South American trip took place in Chile for a two-week period, half of the trip. In Chile we also achieved our final objective, that of observing and photographing the Solar Eclipse 2019 and also in Chile we took the most night photographs in fascinating, interesting, strange places such as the Hand of the Desert monument in Atacama or the formations of semi-precious stones from Death Valley (or Mars Valley) and Moon Valley.

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Canary Islands – La Palma stellar observatories – May 2015 (1)

Photo Name: Sunrise above the sea of clouds near Isaac Newton Telescope

Caption: I took this photo with the Isaac Newton Telescope Canary Islands – La Palma and the sunrise over the sea of clouds behind it.

Properties: Nikon D5200 f/5.6 ISO200 1/125 sec 18mm crop.

Date & Location: 2015 May 18, La Palma, Canary Islands.

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Canary Islands, La Palma – Astrophotography – May 2015

Photo Name: Sunset above the sea of clouds near Isaac Newton Telescope

Caption: I took this photo from near the Isaac Newton Telescope with other facilities from the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Canary Islands – La Palma.

Properties: Nikon D5200 f/3.5 ISO-3200 10 sec 18mm crop.

Date & Location: 2015 May 18, La Palma, Canary Islands.

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Canary Islands – La Palma stellar observatories – May 2014

Photo Names: Canary Islands – La Palma stellar observatories – May 2014  (photo set)

Caption: I took this photo with th stellar observatories in La Palma during my first trip there, in 2014. In the images you can see the Gran Telescopio de Canarias – GTC (the silvery one, starting with the 4th photo). The diameter of the primary mirror is almost 11 metres, the cupola is 33 metres. The other telescope is the Mercator, near Isaac Newton Telescope (INT of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes).

Properties: Nikon D5200 f/8 ISO100 1/125 sec 24mm crop. (first photo, see photo names for the other).

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