lots of fireflies & star trail (2+ hrs images)

This picture made it to NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for August 5 ,2011 post#17 in this thread
https://photography-on-the.net …p?p=12881073#po​st12881073

I meant to capture about 45-55 minutes of 20 second exposures 10:40pm - 11:30pm, but fell asleep, woke up 3am.....and went outside to retrive the set-up.
The T1i battery had died, even though hot night the dew point was enough below the actual temp the lens stayed clear.

specs:
Canon T1i + Canon Lens 15-85 @ 15mm, each 20 sec exposure, over 370 images, just over 2 hrs of images.
Captured as RAW, import into Aperture 3, no PP whatsoever, just export as TIFF for StarStax to make startrails. All done in Mac OsX.

The moon rose around 12:30am, and its reflection is seen in the 2 garage windows as it ascended.
Copyright © by Mike Rosinski,
(btw I've never put a gaudy watermark across any of my images before, but once this went to APOD it's all over the web...)

Shame about the fireflies.

Armando

That's a very good shot. Maybe a bit chaotic for my taste, but good none the less. Those critters were everywhere! Thanks for sharing.

Actually I knew the fireflies were out if force, but not this heavy!

Made a 15 second video clip
(can we embed YouTube videos here?? How?)
You can see the moonrise in the garage lower RH and upper middle window.
This video is between 10:45pm and 1am.

This shows the stars rotating as pin points of light along the NCP (North Celestial Pole, near Polaris), and you can see individual fireflies in it:Click to watch YouTube HD 720p video StarTrail timelapse 7-20-2011 2+ hrs in 15 seconds

IMAGE LINK: http://youtu.be/Xx_gNW​AlK3k?hd=1

IMAGE LINK: http://youtu.be/ie-6PNG_TKI?hd=1

That is an awesome shot! The fireflies around these parts are tremendous. I too tried taking some extended shots for fireflies, but this really is a great stack.

Yeah, I like the video far more than the trail. That's neat!

Wouldn't it have been cool to get a closeup of the windows with the moon rise! Setting that shot up perfectly would really be something

Great shot. The fireflies give the shot a frenetic feel. Love it.

there are indeed a lot of fireflies there... the video is much better, I really enjoy it...

awesome shot love the fire flies think it makes the shot new..

Pretty nice. I wonder if there is a program that would let you do a median or sigma stacking method. It may be possible to remove the lightning bugs. You would almost be treating them as hot pixels.

This image is nothing less than awesome. Five stars out of Five; period. KC

2nd video moved to after 1st video, see post#4 above.

Love the fireflies.

Very cool stack, I like the lightning bugs, looking forward to watching the video when I get on a landline

Nicely done!