Official post your Star Trail pictures

My first attempt. I have found using ISO1600 gives a few too many trails for my liking.

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Silverwolfpup wrote in post #15080255
That picture is just plain awesome, i haven't got to take startrails in awhile and miss it, it's just to humid out too much dew.

Thank you, Silverwolfpup! I'm excited to see what you come up with when you get back out there!

HaroldC3 wrote in post #15080590
My first attempt. I have found using ISO1600 gives a few too many trails for my liking.

I really like the 1st one, nice job!

Big tree in open field, very nice, can you get the polar axis in view?
I'd try a few from different viewpoints.

glideniels wrote in post #15093422

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Startrails by Niels van Hofslot, on Flickr

Here is my attempt on star trails. Next time will try to light up the foreground a bit more

I have to say this is impressive, the tree adds some nice interest to the trails, how long was this exposure ?

I've done a few of these camping trails, so I'm guessing I can call this one a series now. LOL

Camping Man

Silverwolfpup wrote in post #15127127
I have to say this is impressive, the tree adds some nice interest to the trails, how long was this exposure ?

Hi Silverwolfpup,

This were 65 15 seconds exposures. ISO 1600 f/7.1. All stacked using Dr. Brown's Stack-a-matic

mtbdudex wrote in post #15118827
Big tree in open field, very nice, can you get the polar axis in view?
I'd try a few from different viewpoints.

Hi mtbdudex,

Next time will try to locate a more dark location at first. The directions to shoot were very limited since we had a lot light pollution from cities nearby. This angle contained the darkest sky but still a lot light shown after a 15 second exposure.

It's the best I could do with all the light pollution in this part of the world and not having my own transportation...

Light house in Hitakatsu, Tsushima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan:

one from this weekend....

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Here's one from last night

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Just a couple of mine I guess.

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CraigPatterson wrote in post #15074948
This is a stack of about 100 shots out of a 200-shot session. I decided the trail effect I wanted got overshadowed by the length if I tried to stack everything I had taken. Each shot is in its own layer in PS, with a gradually increasing amount of opacity to get the comet effect. The foreground (Arches NP) is lit with a 13-million candlepower spotlight, which gets waved around over the period of a few exposures. A few passing cars also added to the light source. Color of the foreground is almost natural, based on the altered white balance, but slightly heightened vibrance.

Is there a tutorial somewhere to this technique?

Digging deep into the bookmarks for this one, but here you go:

https://plus.google.co​m …2201404/posts/c​WhbazS996D

it's possible you could make an ACTION to somewhat automate this,but it will take time