Lights & Trails at The Bill

Star Trails - Portland Bill Lighthouse, Dorset

 

Recently decided to try a star trails shot at Portland Bill Lighthouse as virtually no moon and it had set anyway. Rather difficult there to point north to Polaris to get the conventional circles. I think you would have to be so close to the lighthouse it would block most of the sky or you'd be in the water!

 

I wanted to experiment with some other patterns and decided to set up for the Lighthouse and just see what I got.

Took a series of 25s exposures lasting about 75mins for the star trails and then stacked them in Starstax. I then blended the stacked trails shot with a 4min exposure I took of the lighthouse, cropped it a little and spent quite a while removing hot pixels as I'd not taken a dark frame on site (note to self!!) Not 100% happy with the blending but I don't think there is harm in showing my 'growing pains' with astro. and I do enjoy it although I find it challenging and certainly not something that my workflow is 'automatic' yet.

 

Thanks for viewing and hope everyone has a great weekend.

 

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