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Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Canon 1100D with 18-55mm kit lens. Each exposure was 15 seconds at ISO-1600 at f/3.5, shooting on continuous from 22:40 BST until 01:20 BST. I was actually imaging for the entire night trying to capture meteors as we get close to the Perseids meteor shower peak. I was only able to stack 3 hours and 40 minutes worth of the overnight data because the cloud thickened up too much. The image was created by stacking 565 images with 25 darks using StarStaX.
After enduring three months of no chances to see the Aurora friends and I headed out for a crisp night of aurora hunting.
What is success? It's not that you earn how much money or how famous you are. Success may be that you've waited for numerous nights and finally got a startrails photo; that you make a most delicious meal in the world as you like; that you tell the guy you admire, 「I love you.」and no matter what (s)he responds.
That is SUCCESS.
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This is the result of 92 separate 30 second images, put together with StarTrails.exe. I would have gone for more, but the memory card filled up and the batteries died.
Each shot: 24mm, f5.6, ISO 800
Star Trails among the passing clouds over the Pasargadae, a city in ancient Persia, it's an archaeological site today and one of #UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Iran. The foreground columns belong to the Audience Hall of Pasargadae palaces, the oldest capital of the Achaemenid empire, founded by Cyrus the Great, with a history about 2500 years old.
The August Bank Holiday weekend was spent cycling at Rutland Water, Leicestershire, with little light pollution I decided to do some startrails, going down the the waters edge to use this for a bit of interest was out of the question, I had not long arrived, it had been a long day, and was getting late, so I opted to use the car instead. I hadn't took the bikes off the roof and knew these silhouetted against the sky would look good, this was the best angle I could find. The image is made up of 112 30 sec exposures.
The small streak on the right is a shooting star and the longer one a passing plane, the car is ambient lit and I used a 1/4 power flashgun pop to give the inside of the car a bit of a glow.
Strobist info: single 420EX @ 1/4 power inside car
My first attempts using the Live Composite feature in the Olympus EM1..... each picture is a multiple 15sec exposure automatically overlaid and the set range from 8 - 10 minute total exposure time
This is one shot, although I brightened the foreground a bit. The exposure was about one hour, and I started before it was completely dark out. You can see the shadow cast by the near island because of the fading light. Long exposure noise reduction in camera meant that I had to wait another whole hour before I could be sure the shot turned out. I wish I had framed slightly differently, as Polaris is just on the edge of the frame. There are some fox tracks faintly visible in the foreground. I tested out my camera's ability to withstand cold the previous night. All in all a great experience.
*Sorry for the long absence. I have been busy and uninspired. I promise to visit your photostreams this week!
Another startrails attempt...
Multiple 30-sec exposures combined into one by using Startrails software, approximately 30 minutes of the total exposure time.
Canon EOS 60D, Tamron 17-50mm F/2.8 @ 17mm and F/2.8, ISO3200.
Startrails on Kuwait
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S
Focal Length: 14mm
Aperture: f/3.2
Shutter Speed : 2310
ISO: 400
Exposure: Manual
Taken tonight from Danure beach whilst dabbling with long exposures. this exposure was around 4 minutes. gave up shortly after this as it was getting cold :)
Taken from Oxfordshire, close to Duns Tew. I was actually shooting star trails, so the individual shots were 30 second exposures which means the stars are trailing slightly. But the Milky Way was absolutely stunning that evening so I decided to process this as an individual shot. This was a jpeg so its amazing that I got so much detail in the Milky Way!
Single shot, taken with an astro-modded Canon 1100D with 18-55mm kit lens. ISO-800 for 30 seconds at f/3.5. Image processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone image viewer. This was a rare shot that night where there wasn't a car driving past and light painting the turbine!!
Taken in May 2012 on a camping weekend in West Ayton in Yorkshire
Nikon D90
Sigma 10-20mm @10mm
Manfrotto 055 xprob Tripod
Timed Cable release
Manual
iso 200
Exposure 180seconds x 20
Stacked using Startrails 1.1
Nice bottle of red + a comfortable chair !!!
Atacama Dessert is not needed. :-D
Man muss nicht unbedingt zum Sterne fotografieren in die Wüste reisen.
Friday evening I headed east and north with Starlisa to see if we could get some star shots and if there were any glimpses of the aurora. The forecast was "fair" for star gazing but when we arrived, it was so dark and the sky was so full of stars it was dizzying. The night was filled with just as many frogs croaking as there were stars. We later heard great horned owls, sandhill cranes, and coyotes. After an hour and a half the clouds started moving in and the stars started to fade away and turn fuzzy.
This is a single 22 minute exposure, f/4.5, 29mm, ISO 200. Even though I forgot the piece that connects my camera to the tripod, the bean bag on a rock seemed to work okay. The second exposure of 25 minutes ended up accumulating moisture on the lens. Please feel free to leave comments with constructive criticism. I need the help.
I was surprised how this came out after playing with the levels. The original is below.
I have seen a few of these startrail shots on Flickr and often wonderded how to make one. I found some freeware on the web which works perfect. This was made from 79 shots at f4 - 15 second exposure 70mm over 32 minutes.
www.startrails.de/html/software.html
The one downfall was having to sit outside for ages and press the button for how ever long. To get around this I found another website with instructions on how to make a remote relese shutter cable and by playing with the wires got it work on continuous shooting mode. I poped open a can of larger and let the camera do the work.
You can do startrails, even where there is a lot of light pollution, this one is about an hours worth of 30 sec exposures, stacked in a free program called Starstax, then edited in Lightroom to bring out some detail. The direction is north facing... about half a mile across the fields is the Sth Mimms junction where both the M25 and A1 intersect, and there is of course the service station. So plenty of light being emitted, as you can on the horizon. I chose this location for that reason, plus I liked how the trees leading off down the lane created a good frame. When the weather is a bit warmer, would like to do a couple of hours worth here, it was -5 tonight.
Startrail wind farm in Saint- Seine L'Abbaye (Burgundy)
Circumpolaire dans le Parc éolien de Saint-Seine L'Abbaye (Bourgogne)
Startrails over the Bulgarian town of Byala at the Black Sea coast.
Here I tried looking south instead of the commonly used viewpoint towards Polaris. You can nicely see how the trails bend downwards (around the celestial south pole) in the lower part of the image, and upwards (around the celestial north pole) near the top. In between, stars close to the celestial equator give straight lines.
The two very bright trails near the image center are Jupiter and Saturn, flaring occasinally due to passing light clouds and haze.
Acquisition & processing details:
Samsung 16mm f/2.4 @ f/3.2 on Samsung NX 30. 120x 30 s, stacked using Startrails. 20 darks. Raw development using Luminar 2018. Post-processing with Luminar 2018 and Photoshop.
Total of 210 shots @ 30 second exposure f/3.5 10-22mm 450d 3/4 bottle scotch.
i found where i pumped the camera and ditched those shots .... next time i will leave the camera well alone lol. I like this one heaps better then the previous one.
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!