EdATX Senior Member 553 posts Likes: 2 Joined Feb 2006 Location: SouthEast Texas More info | Nov 28, 2011 10:00 | #1  Facing north from my friends parents places out past Reagan Wells. ~50 minute exposure. It seems there was a bit of light pollution coming from that area. That was my 2nd attempt at star trails. Started at around 4am. This was also taken with the Canon 10-22 at f/3.5 ISO 125. I def like it and I was happy it came out. I have one of Orion, but for some reason it looks really bad when I resized it (jpeg compression really took a toll on it). Any pointers?
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ToxicCoolaid Goldmember  1,115 posts Likes: 328 Joined Feb 2011 Location: NorthEast Tennessee More info | Nov 29, 2011 15:04 | #2 Wow! it must be really dark there if you can take a single 50 min exposure. You could get the sky darker i you did 50 1 min exposures and use StarTrails, or StarTrax
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Nov 29, 2011 15:12 | #3 Yeah. I was kinda out in nowhereville. No major cities. San Antonio and Del Rio were about 100 miles away in either direction. I did try some shorter exposures, but didn't do it right. Did a few at 30 seconds and totally forgot to do mirror lock up.
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Joe929 Senior Member  286 posts Joined Jul 2010 Location: Long Island, New York More info | Hello Ed, Canon 7D, 24-105L, 100-400L, Tokina 11-16, 430 ex II
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Nov 30, 2011 10:38 | #5 Nocturnus wrote in post #13469864  Yeah. I was kinda out in nowhereville. No major cities. San Antonio and Del Rio were about 100 miles away in either direction. I did try some shorter exposures, but didn't do it right. Did a few at 30 seconds and totally forgot to do mirror lock up. This was one of my first attempts. Next time I'll be ready to try a few things and bring my spare batteries. The hard part is trying to get focus. I kept taking short exposures to check focus. What is the best way to set focus for star pics? Take short exposures to check focus <Grin> Gripped 7D, gripped, full-spectrum modfied T1i (500D), SX50HS, A2E film body, Tamzooka (150-600), Tamron 90mm/2.8 VC (ver 2), Tamron 18-270 VC, Canon FD 100 f/4.0 macro, Canon 24-105 f/4L,Canon EF 200 f/2.8LII, Canon 85 f/1.8, Tamron Adaptall 2 90mmf/2.5 Macro, Tokina 11-16, Canon EX-430 flash, Vivitar DF-383 flash, Astro-Tech AT6RC and Celestron NexStar 102 GT telescopes, various other semi-crappy manual lenses and stuff.
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