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Hey everyone, welcome to my corner of the flickrverse once again :)

 

I created this photo late Thursday night at Austinmer beach on the South Coast of NSW. I've been getting very much into the night sky lately and after what seems like forever I was lucky enough to get a clear night which didn't turn cloudy 10 minutes after I turned up!

 

Enough babble anyway... If you're interested in how I made this shot, the details are as follows:

 

Camera: 5D mk2

Focal Length: 24mm

ISO: 1600

Exposure: 30 seconds

Grad filter: 2 stop soft edge - upside down (to tame the lights from the street)

 

I made 120 shots at the above settings and stacked them in a freeware program called StarStax, which gives me the equivalent of a 1 hour exposure.

 

The main benefit of the stacking method as opposed to making a single 1 hour exposure is that I now get to make a 5 second time lapse video with all the individual frames :)

 

 

Off topic, but you may be interested; I am the developer of the ScratchCam iPhone photo app and I'm currently giving away $100 in amazon vouchers on the web site - if you're interested hit up www.scratchcam.com

 

Thanks!

Steve

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