More star trails

[StarryEyes]

Tonight is crisp and clear so I thought I would give some more star trails a go.

With the moon being quite prominent and with using a 10-22 lens set to 10 I was restricted with where I could shoot so ended up with houses on the right but I quite like how it frames the shot.

I shot large jpg and RAW and I'd only put a 4gb card in (doh!) so it wasn't long before it was full, hence the short trails but here it is.

I've currently got another on the go as I type this, I've had to swing further round to the right as well as the moon has come around more.

[SkyJamie]

Great result Gemma, looks like you got Orion on the left there, nicely framed with the house and fence line too

Jamie

[StarryEyes]

Thanks Jamie,

Here is the next, this was shot at 200 ISO, 10 second exposures @ f/4

The problem I then had as you can see is the moon came across.

I then cropped it down to this.

Still a bit of glow from the moon but not as distracting.

Thinking of trying even further across to the right next time and turning portrait as I think I might just catch Polaris in the shot.

[lightorb]

the cropped image looks perfect

as you stated to get polaris would be the bees knees

[StarryEyes]

Here is tonight's attempt. It kept being interrupted by passing cloud but this is made up of a section of cloud free images.

I think I'm going to have to go back up to a higher ISO to bring out more of the fainter stars.

[StarryEyes]

the cropped image looks perfect

as you stated to get polaris would be the bees knees

Thanks lightorb. Managed to get Polaris this time (above image).

[tnorthy92]

What length exposure(s) was the last image?