Tom_1903
Monument Startrails - Revisited
This is the Disreali Monument ten minutes walk from my house (even in the pitch black through a forest :) ) in High Wycombe (bucks), I've done a few startrails here but light pollution is really a problem. (you can probably see why if you look at the geotagged location :) )
243 30 second exposures (and 9 dark frames) (totalling about 2hrs 20mins) taken with a Canon 450D at f/4.5 iso 200 11mm focal legnth. Brightened and converted to JPEG with Digital Photo Proffesional and stacked it Startrails.exe.
The lens started to fog up after about 2 hours so I left.
I had to make two seperate stacks then re-align them because I kicked the tripod half way through.
The light pollution doesn't seem to have affected this one as much as the others I've taken, probably the light of the moon , the fact I used tungsten white balance and going out slightly early in twilight neutralised it a bit.
I've removed all the planes from this image but left in the wiggly orange lines to the right of the obilisk because I was hoping someone could guess at what they are. There are at least five seperate lines of which four appear in two exposures each. The first two happen together then two minutes later another two then the last on a further 1.5 minutes later. My parents say they look like fireworks but I'm not sure they seem a bit boring.
Monument Startrails - Revisited
This is the Disreali Monument ten minutes walk from my house (even in the pitch black through a forest :) ) in High Wycombe (bucks), I've done a few startrails here but light pollution is really a problem. (you can probably see why if you look at the geotagged location :) )
243 30 second exposures (and 9 dark frames) (totalling about 2hrs 20mins) taken with a Canon 450D at f/4.5 iso 200 11mm focal legnth. Brightened and converted to JPEG with Digital Photo Proffesional and stacked it Startrails.exe.
The lens started to fog up after about 2 hours so I left.
I had to make two seperate stacks then re-align them because I kicked the tripod half way through.
The light pollution doesn't seem to have affected this one as much as the others I've taken, probably the light of the moon , the fact I used tungsten white balance and going out slightly early in twilight neutralised it a bit.
I've removed all the planes from this image but left in the wiggly orange lines to the right of the obilisk because I was hoping someone could guess at what they are. There are at least five seperate lines of which four appear in two exposures each. The first two happen together then two minutes later another two then the last on a further 1.5 minutes later. My parents say they look like fireworks but I'm not sure they seem a bit boring.