Startrails Trials

One for fun. Another first for me, a go at star trails (and boats and a plane trail it would seem) and a bit of light painting. Sorry about the same old composition but it was just a bit of practice and this is as far back as I could get from the tower.

 

I think this is pretty much the only direction (give or take a few degrees) you'd be able to get star trails from this location as, like stated in my previous post, it's surrounded by three towns ranging from pretty much west to north east, there's also the start point lighthouse flashing away to the SW. So what you're looking at here is in a SE ish direction.

 

I had the camera in continuous shooting mode and the shutter locked down using a cable release. This was a hundred 30 second exposures (50 minutes) stacked in Startrails.exe. I had let it run for 1.5 hours but it stopped after 100 exposures, so if anyone can shed some light on that I'd be greatful.

 

Shot on the d3100 and 18-55mm kit lens.

 

By the way, the big bright white trail is Jupiter (not really sure what happened in the middle)

 

Any constructive crit always welcomed.

 

Cheers,

 

Gary

 

Edit: I think next time I try this it'll be in moonlit to save any light painting!

Done