Star trails

[John Edwards]

Hi all, and thanks for adding me to your group, I've recently started this hobby I'm quite new to this so please bare with me, this is my first attempt at star trails. 

[Moonshed]

11 hours ago, John Edwards said:

Hi all, and thanks for adding me to your group, I've recently started this hobby I'm quite new to this so please bare with me, this is my first attempt at star trails.  

 

Hi John,
I would call that a success then as you have indeed captured  star trails. The image can be made more interesting if you are able to centre on Polaris as all the star trails will then form parts of concentric circles around it. You can experiment with different exposure lengths and different  ISO settings to get the best effect.

I wish you well in your new hobby, it can become very addictive! 😀
 

Keith

Edited November 22, 2020 by Moonshed

[jambouk]

Lovely first go. You have a big gap between one set of images and the longest run of images; was this intentional? 

lots of things to experiment with; look forward to seeing your future trails.

I wrote a brief guide on them you may or may not find helpful:

https://nottinghamastro.org.uk/members-articles/
 

James

[rickwayne]

That's a really nice tutorial! If you're using Photoshop you can also stack right in the program by using the "Maximum" function (one way is to put all the images into a Smart Object and set its stacking mode.