Astro Workshop 19 – Day 6

Thursday May 29th

Afternoon trip out for a visit to Masca to watch the sunset over the village in the valley.  Masca is a tiny hamlet, hidden in the folds of the ancient Teno Massif in the west of Tenerife and has breath taking views of the valley in which it nestles.  The road to reach the village is like a switchback with many hairpin corners to scale the enormous cliffs and back down again into the valley.

The village of Masca in the valley between two mountains.
The mountains cause the sunlight to make light shafts as it goes down behind them.
Having left the village, we stopped on the road to photograph the valley and the road we had just driven (the white ribbon on the right, snaking down the mountainside).
Above the clouds at sunset again.

We returned to the hotel for a meal and then set off again for the National Park to photograph star trails using time lapse on the plain below Mount Teide.

A polar star trail above Mount Teide.

For this star trail, the camera was aligned with the centre of the lens on the pole star to get a full circle of trails.  The star image consists of 450 separate photographs, taken at f2.8 with 20 seconds exposure with the ISO set to 3200 with 2 seconds between each shot.  The 450 shots were then blended in Photoshop to produce the trail.  A separate shot of f2.8 at 60 seconds, ISO 1600 was taken to produce the mountain foreground.  The two images were then blended in Photoshop to produce the above image

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