Star trails (my first attempt!) over a Buddhist temple in South Korea!

Hi guys, so I've finally gotten through processing the image. This is the first time I've ever stacked star trails (in fact, the first time I've ever done a stack of any sort).

Here, you can see both the northern and southern hemispheres of the night sky as well as the Celestial Equator. It's roughly 280 exposures, for a total time of 2.5 hours. In total, I was on top of a cold, dark mountaintop for 3 hours alone, drove 2 hours there and back, hiked up and down the mountain, and spent about an hour processing...the most effort I've ever put into a single shot, but I'm very happy with the outcome...hope you like it too:

Cool. The curvature of the star trails neatly complements the curvature of the temple roof. Well done.

Lot of time spent on this image. Looks really nice.

Great image. There's a fantastic array of colors in those star trails.

very nice and clean!

You are much more dedicated than I. When I did my star trail shot I drove to a beach at night with a six pack. But then again, your's turned out much better!

Great shot!

David Arbogast wrote in post #15890808
Cool. The curvature of the star trails neatly complements the curvature of the temple roof. Well done.

Thank you! I was really hoping that it would turn out like that, but the fact that both hemispheres would be visible was a complete surprise!

Matt M. wrote in post #15890862
Great image. There's a fantastic array of colors in those star trails.

Thank you! Yeah, it always amazes me that even in the visible spectrum there is so much variety in the stars' colours.

woods wrote in post #15890815
Lot of time spent on this image. Looks really nice.

Thank you! It's funny because generally in my personal life (interestingly enough, not at work) I am a fairly impatient person...I don't like sitting still for too long haha...but when it comes to photography, I'll happily wait for a few hours to get ONE photo I'm happy with...photography really is my meditative happy place.

ToferPhotography wrote in post #15891356
very nice and clean!

Thank you! I definitely want to do more!

Celtic Tiger wrote in post #15891377
You are much more dedicated than I. When I did my star trail shot I drove to a beach at night with a six pack. But then again, your's turned out much better!

Great shot!

Haha, thanks...though it sounds like you might have a better time of it than I did

beautiful!
What is the name of the temple? I don't think I have seen that one...yet

Thanks! Sorry for the late reply, I've been on vacation. This is Ilbungsa near Uiryeong in Gyeongnam-do. Where in SK are you?