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My first ever attempt at star trails saw me heading down to a local tree - down by the Ouse - which I've photographed a few times before. With York to the north and the moon creeping southwards I only had about a 60 minute window to get set up, learn how to do it, and get the shots needed before having to give up for the night.
Fortunately, everything went quite smoothly...
This is 45 minutes worth of exposures, 20s each at f4, 3200ISO.
In these dark times where reason is (almost) totally lost and we are more and more supinely commanded by dictatorial governments (especially here in Italy!), with continuous new impositions that generate phobia, deaths, psychological and educational discomforts, suicides and poverty, social hardships of all kinds, and when we are even no longer allowed to breathe freely outside, it is good to never lose the healthy habit of observing the cosmos... “useless activity” one can say, probably yes, probably no, I certainly do not wish to have the last word on the sacred relationship that each of us has with the infinite, the inscrutable, the Mystery, which has always surrounded the human being.
Fact that the more I observe the cosmos, at night, in the mountains, the more I understand it is useless to be afraid, much less angry. This terror, so professionally instilled up by cheap people, because they cannot see beyond their own squalid power interests, does not deserve any consideration. The beauty of the cosmos will remain, those people will pass. “Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.” Mahatma Gandhi.
If compared to the previous shot this photograph shows more in detail the Dents d'Ambin (3.372 m).
Clearly present in the sky the trails of light left by the stars due to the Earth's rotation during the long exposure.
The brightest band near the Dents summits is caused by the Milky Way.
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3hrs of startrails captured at home on the patio between 11.23pm and 2.30am 15th/16th August. Clear sky for most of the night. 400 images (actually had 742 but that makes for an over the top spin!) taken at ISO 1600, f4, 10mm 25 secs with a 3 sec gap. Stacked in Starstax comet mode gap filling and processed in CS5. Canon 700D 10-22mm lens. Camera really needs a service as there are quite a few hot and cold pixels now.
Lots of satellites in there and 1 iridum, a few planes – most are evened out through stacking. Moonrise is also beginning behind the barn on the right
The image consists of around 60 individual images that I exposed for 30 seconds. The images were put together using Star Trax and Lightroom CC. Taken with the Canon R6 Mark II and the Tamron 15-30-2.8 G2.
Since all the EXIF data got killed by StarStax:
Canon EOS 7D
Tokina 11-16 at 11mm
f/3.2
30s per frame
128 pictures ... then my camera gave up :-)
One extra shot to improve the foreground.
The first clear night in ages coincided with an almost full moon so milky way shots were out of the question. I therefore decided to do some star trails having had my eye on this composition for a while.
60-minute startrail, started exactly as the clocks changed to BST overnight Saturday.
** Shortlisted: 2017 Astronomy Photographer of the Year **
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Second night,Ayg. 12, 2020 was supposed to be the peak with 50m/h. the north star and the perseids are included. This is a very large image, so click "L" then "Z" twice to view large and see if you can find the 8 meteors that were captured within this field of view....Hint: most are just above the horizon. in a few days I will post an image with all of them marked. Tech stuff: Stack of 400 images, Nikkor 10-20mm DX zoom on D500 at 10mm, f4.5, 20 sec exp with 1sec interval. stacked with StarStaX, cleaned with TopazAI, gigapixal enlarged. Dew accumulation on the lens stopped by wrapping the lens with chemical hand warmers...Note that compared with last night (previously loaded image), the clouds early on created light pollution on the left which reduced the number of trails. see the marked meteors below in comments or in the next image on my stream www.flickr.com/photos/rkop/50227190351/in/dateposted-public/
A busy night in the North Wales Mountains, a brief bit of clear sky in between the clouds, around 70 images.
This is a stack of 289 exposures that were 40 seconds each: a bit over 3 hours worth in total. Stacked in Photoshop with some final edits in Lightroom.
Took some images with my Gopro hero 8 black, Shme the camera gives off too many hot pixels. 127 images processed in startrails app.
