Penmon Point startrail

[Photosbykev]

500 exposures over 2 hours, blended using StarStax v0.6. Car headlights were used to paint the foreground and lighthouse

[Matthew]

Absolutely stunning kev.

[Psychobilly]

Sweet Kev... The link was broken when I first looked earlier....

Did you have to drive around much to do the painting ?

Peter...

[Photosbykev]

just one gentle turn in the car Pete, maybe 10 seconds total

[Psychobilly]

Certainly worked....

I had thought of doing something similar for Mumbles lighthouse after seeing your TL from a few years ago...  but don't know how it would pan out with the LP from the City and Steel works as a back drop... Although I do have the 77mm IDAS witch would fit the 24-105...

Plus I would have to stand guard over the camera or it would go "walkies"...

Peter....

[robbie c]

Wow what a great pic Kev over 2hrs and worth every minute when you look at the finished image, hope you don't mind me asking but what are the three streaks running across the image are they from aircraft lights  

[Photosbykev]

Wow what a great pic Kev over 2hrs and worth every minute when you look at the finished image, hope you don't mind me asking but what are the three streaks running across the image are they from aircraft lights  

just navigation lights from aircraft

[davew]

A lovely image once more. You always get a " Crispness " to your images that I like and as for the star colours.........

Is the main light a strobe ? I looked it up but could only find the timing ( 5 sec ) not the type.

Dave.

[sologuitarist61]

What a great exposure and marvellous colours in the star trails - lovely!

[Space Ranger]

Beautifully done.

[Photosbykev]

A lovely image once more. You always get a " Crispness " to your images that I like and as for the star colours.........

Is the main light a strobe ? I looked it up but could only find the timing ( 5 sec ) not the type.

Dave.

I think its a rotating light but it does have light baffles on the land side of it to avoid lighting up some local cottages

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[Beulah]

That's amazing, Kev.

Peter, love to see some of your night photography if you plan to do any.   

[davew]

I think its a rotating light but it does have light baffles on the land side of it to avoid lighting up some local cottages

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Thanks Kev. That explains a lot.

I must get down there one day. It's just along the coast for me.

Dave.

[JonH]

Great location Kev and a cool shot. Nice one.

[Photosbykev]

Final version containing the full sequence of 1000 images, the post processing is shown under hte image

this is the final version of the previous draft image containing 500 unedited images I uploaded here www.flickr.com/photos/kevlewis/11780504593/

This final image contains the full 1000 images taken over 3 hours.

Each raw file was converted to tiff and then batch processed as follows:

2 x run throughs with a deconvolution PS action to tighten the stars.

2 x run throughs with an action to bring up the star colour.

1 manual edit of all of the 1000 images to remove any aircraft navigation lights and clean up some coma on corner stars.

Then Starstax v0.6 was used to blend all of the images, followed by a tidy up in PS to clean a few hot pixels and adjust the levels.

[saturn5]

Fab trails,love it.

[Psychobilly]

Well worth all the effort Kev

Peter...

[Pete Presland]

wow! so many star colours love it!