Star trails

Now that the weather has 'warmed up' from the minus 20-30's I finally made it outside the house with the camera in hand under the rising moon. Here's an Nightscape image of Mount Charles Stewart. Nothing beats a Moon rise in the mountains!

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/neimad19/114808​15023/

Wow beautiful capture, well done..

I like it, though I'd prefer longer star trails, that's just me..

Beautiful, +1 for braving the cold!

Thanks for the kind words!

Beautiful shot, I love it. I just started shooting these so I'm still trying to get the hang of it.

Nice, going to have to try that. Now if I can only find me a snow covered mountain in Indiana.

Very nice.

Beautiful.

neimad19 wrote in post #16544689
Now that the weather has 'warmed up' from the minus 20-30's I finally made it outside the house with the camera in hand under the rising moon. Here's an Nightscape image of Mount Charles Stewart. Nothing beats a Moon rise in the mountains!

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/neimad19/114808​15023/
Star Trails over Charles Stewart by Damien Sundgren, on Flickr[/IMG]

Just wow!

Thanks guys!

I have a question: I read a couple of star trail guides but they dont say how to take the photos so close to each other if the camara need time to save the previous one? My camara need at least 10s when saving a 30" raw file. I'm talking about the staking metod. Can someone help me? I have a nikon d5100 and already bought the wireless remote.

aeroxmax4 wrote in post #16715103
I have a question: I read a couple of star trail guides but they dont say how to take the photos so close to each other if the camara need time to save the previous one? My camara need at least 10s when saving a 30" raw file. I'm talking about the staking metod. Can someone help me? I have a nikon d5100 and already bought the wireless remote.

Somewhere in the menu will be an option to "Turn Off Noise Reduction" or something similar. Make sure the in-camera noise reduction is off and you're shooting in RAW. Try that see if it makes any difference.

Damien

aeroxmax4 wrote in post #16715103
I have a question: I read a couple of star trail guides but they dont say how to take the photos so close to each other if the camera need time to save the previous one? My camera need at least 10s when saving a 30" raw file. I'm talking about the staking metod. Can someone help me? I have a nikon d5100 and already bought the wireless remote.

neimad19 wrote in post #16715139
Somewhere in the menu will be an option to "Turn Off Noise Reduction" or something similar. Make sure the in-camera noise reduction is off and you're shooting in RAW. Try that see if it makes any difference.

Damien

^ That is correct.
The reason your camera takes some time to move into next image is that you have let some "In Camera" post processing such as "Noise reduction" or likewise, on "On". Go through your Camera's Menu and turn all to "Off". You should have absolutely no lag time then. Note that buffer issue on "Continues mode" is a different issue but here you should not run into that.

More importantly, the software is smart enough to recognize and complete the gap in images. In fact that is one reason you purposefully want to have a constant gap between each image, say to increase your total image accusation time to save on batterie's limited life to cover for eg dusk to dawn, save on your storage (Memory specially if card's total capacity is limited) or simply be protective toward your cameras shuttle mechanism and your cameras actuation count (And continue with these nice star tracing shooting, only to see an astronomical milage on your camera in no time). Look into this Thread:

LINK

or basically pay attention to this:

thank you very much Samsen!
Will try this week end my first star trail