Longest lines of sight photographed.......
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:34 pm
Greetings from a longtime lurker on this site who has followed it from its infancy........
I know this topic has come up every now and then on various websites......this is one I like to look into as a little hobby: What is the farthest you can see from one place to another?
I was surfing some photos of Mount Rainier on here and discovered this remarkable recently-posted view from Brunswick Mountain in British Columbia, north of Vancouver:
http://www.summitpost.org/view_object.p ... _id=486827
According to the website www.heywhatsthat.com, the straight-line distance on the map between the two peaks is approximately 195 miles. The red "visibility cloak" confirms that Brunswick and Rainier are intervisible with each other, and it may also be possible to see Rainier from even farther away (ex. Mt. Garibaldi).
I also saw another photo on the other side of Rainier, from near Pendleton, Oregon - in the Blue Mountains:
http://www.summitpost.org/view_object.p ... _id=340670
Although the first commenter said it had to be Mount Adams, I don't really have a doubt that this is indeed Rainier (the shape of the top seems about right). The view is about 175 miles.......and is also confirmed by heywhatsthat.com. Check the "Mount Rainier" panorama on that site to see the viewshed I generated as well as the "Rainier from Pendleton" pano. (I also have panoramas I generated from many other big mts that I haven't made public yet).
There was recently a discussion about the view from Mount Whitney and the current record for longest line of sight photo in the lower 48 states, 190 miles to San Gorgonio Mountain:
http://www.whitneyportalstore.com/forum ... #Post59014
Although the Brunswick photo is taken from a peak in Canada into the USA, may I humbly submit that we might have a contender here to unseat the San Gorgonio photo?
Of course, as www.viewfinderpanoramas.org shows, the longest line of sight photo in the entire USA is from Mount Sanford to Denali in Alaska, 221 miles (though Rainier seems capable of 200+ mile views too)......
So I'll throw this out there and see what we come up with. I would love to see different people make their own submissions and start racing up peaks with telephoto camera zoom lens to set new photographed line of sight records Being only a poor student, I am unable to engage in such pursuits myself......
Having said that, we really should hope that www.viewfinderpanoramas.org expands more into America.....it's one of my favorite sites and there's a lot of potential there!
Thanks everyone.......
I know this topic has come up every now and then on various websites......this is one I like to look into as a little hobby: What is the farthest you can see from one place to another?
I was surfing some photos of Mount Rainier on here and discovered this remarkable recently-posted view from Brunswick Mountain in British Columbia, north of Vancouver:
http://www.summitpost.org/view_object.p ... _id=486827
According to the website www.heywhatsthat.com, the straight-line distance on the map between the two peaks is approximately 195 miles. The red "visibility cloak" confirms that Brunswick and Rainier are intervisible with each other, and it may also be possible to see Rainier from even farther away (ex. Mt. Garibaldi).
I also saw another photo on the other side of Rainier, from near Pendleton, Oregon - in the Blue Mountains:
http://www.summitpost.org/view_object.p ... _id=340670
Although the first commenter said it had to be Mount Adams, I don't really have a doubt that this is indeed Rainier (the shape of the top seems about right). The view is about 175 miles.......and is also confirmed by heywhatsthat.com. Check the "Mount Rainier" panorama on that site to see the viewshed I generated as well as the "Rainier from Pendleton" pano. (I also have panoramas I generated from many other big mts that I haven't made public yet).
There was recently a discussion about the view from Mount Whitney and the current record for longest line of sight photo in the lower 48 states, 190 miles to San Gorgonio Mountain:
http://www.whitneyportalstore.com/forum ... #Post59014
Although the Brunswick photo is taken from a peak in Canada into the USA, may I humbly submit that we might have a contender here to unseat the San Gorgonio photo?
Of course, as www.viewfinderpanoramas.org shows, the longest line of sight photo in the entire USA is from Mount Sanford to Denali in Alaska, 221 miles (though Rainier seems capable of 200+ mile views too)......
So I'll throw this out there and see what we come up with. I would love to see different people make their own submissions and start racing up peaks with telephoto camera zoom lens to set new photographed line of sight records Being only a poor student, I am unable to engage in such pursuits myself......
Having said that, we really should hope that www.viewfinderpanoramas.org expands more into America.....it's one of my favorite sites and there's a lot of potential there!
Thanks everyone.......