Trailing
I shot this image on Friday night, from my balcony. I have wanted to shoot this for quite some time but II never found the right night to shoot it. Last Friday night the sky was very clear so I decided to set up the camera and let it do its thing.
My balcony faces south, so finding the South Celestial Pole is not hard. This image is created from 512 x 15 second images captured one after the other. Yep, it took a little while to shoot! π These images are then stacked in post processing and what you end up capturing is 7680 seconds, or 128 minutes of time, neatly stacked in one image. The rotation is in fact the earths rotation.
The red streaks are aircraft, following the designated flight paths down to Melbourne or Adelaide. I could remove these but they add a point of interest. If you turn your phone sideways or look on your computer full screen, you will see a faint, straight line just under the South Celestial Pole. I think this may have been Starlink travelling across the night sky, but I haven't checked if this is the case or not.
Trailing
I shot this image on Friday night, from my balcony. I have wanted to shoot this for quite some time but II never found the right night to shoot it. Last Friday night the sky was very clear so I decided to set up the camera and let it do its thing.
My balcony faces south, so finding the South Celestial Pole is not hard. This image is created from 512 x 15 second images captured one after the other. Yep, it took a little while to shoot! π These images are then stacked in post processing and what you end up capturing is 7680 seconds, or 128 minutes of time, neatly stacked in one image. The rotation is in fact the earths rotation.
The red streaks are aircraft, following the designated flight paths down to Melbourne or Adelaide. I could remove these but they add a point of interest. If you turn your phone sideways or look on your computer full screen, you will see a faint, straight line just under the South Celestial Pole. I think this may have been Starlink travelling across the night sky, but I haven't checked if this is the case or not.