More StarTrails

[Digz]

Following on from a previous nights success I was out again last night shooting StarTrails again with a slightly different angle.

4hrs of exposure taken in 2min chunks and stacked with StarStax. Taken with my D7000 and a Hahnel Intervolometer and my 10-20mm sigma lens.

Not sure about the lens flares, I guess it gives something different to the scene - what do you think?

Hope you like.

[austen4]

Nice trails. I really like the lens flares. I would love a 10-20 sigma lens but I have no moneys . Would really like one for widefield stuff. Good stuff!

[Digz]

Thanks for the comments Austen :-)

[digitaltre515]

I love that lens; I have one for my Canon 500D. I've got the 10-20 f/2.8 (I think, maybe 2.3, I'd have to look). It's a very versatile lens. The shot looks great, especially with the lens flares! I might try to adjust the black point just a touch, but that's my only criticism.

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[Digz]

Thanks for the comments Mark, most appreciated. Ill have a look at the black point :-)

[LukeSkywatcher]

Nice. Can i ask what the green lights are up the top.

Aircraft?

[Digz]

Hi Paul, the green light are flare created by the house lights.

[Zul]

Very nice image

[todd8137]

its a great image

[Cath]

That's a lovely sharp image!

[StarryEyes]

That's another stunner of an image.

I'm interested to know how you got the image looking so clean when you have a lot of lights down in the bottom left corner. Did you do a custom White balance?

[Digz]

Thank you for the comments guys.

Gemma these shots were all done in RAW so I could adjust the white balance post processing before stacking, a custom WB would also work. That allows me to fine tune the WB taking into account the different light sources. Also allows me to control the orange sky glow, which was also helped in part by limiting the exposures to 2min.

Hope that helps and if you've got any more questions feel free to ask.

[whooshbang]

Nice Widefield.

Is that a satellite in the bottom left hand corner just above the tree? Some thing appears to track across the sky, stop for a while, then move off in the other direction.

[Sam]

A very nice image and nicely composed.