Startrails

[MaCross]

This is my fourth attempt at creating a star trail from the lightpolluted backgarden.

It is about 38 minutes worth of shots at f4, 24mm on a Canon 5dmkII. (note to myself... dont trample round the cam while shooting )

Single exposure, the Pleiades hiding in the trees and Andromeda just visible

[Dangerous-Dave]

Aweseome result Martina.

I am guessing the moon is giving the sky a blue cast there, but judging by the number of stars you've captured I don't think your light pollution is too bad up there.

What length subs? 30 seconds?

[MaCross]

Cheers Dave!

Yes, the moon is just out of the frames towards the left bottom of the pic.

They were single 32 second subs, hence the tincy gaps

[Pisces75]

Nice pictures!!!

[jgs001]

Very nice result Martina.

[brendant]

An excellent Startrails image Martina, how did you combine al your subs together ?. A superb result for such a relatively short exposure, hard to beat dark skies.

Brendan

[MaCross]

Cheers Pieces75, John & Brendan!

Brendan, its a nifty little software piece called Startrails and you can find it here: Startrails application

Its very easy to use and free too :hello2:Well worth having a go!

[brendant]

Stairtrails is an excellent piece of software for this purpose, only inquiring in case you had done it the hard way in Photoshop - good to hear you took the easy option :-).

I wish I had your dark skies though as a fantastic image for the exposure.

Brendan

[Beyond_Vision]

A superb result Martina the colour of Pleiades stand out really well

Regards

Kevin

[MaCross]

A friend of mine told me about it Brendan and I couldnt believe how easy it was when I have used it the first time. I will deffo do some more once the grey stuff has passed over

Thank you for your kind comment Kevin!

[ashenlight]

these are so professional looking, you've done an amazing job. I particularly like the contrast between the dark blue sky and the fire coloured branches in the foreground

[Taff]

Hi Martina' That's a very nice star trail.Mark

[MaCross]

Ach well Amanda, professional looking.... maybe after some more humpties of tries

Cheers Mark!

[Tim]

I love this! Nicely done.

[MaCross]

Cheers TJ! You have made my day

[MaCross]

Here is one that I have made yesterday. Unfortunately after 38 minutes dew started to form and I had to abandon the shoot.... 5dmkII with 17-40L

Here is one I prepared earlier tonight, worth 48 minutes, I moved the tripod before I checked for dew.... guess what? No dew was on the lens this time....doooohhh!

5dmkII, 24-105L

[neelam]

very nice.but why have thou missed polaris every time?

[MaCross]

Well, Polaris has a very nasty street lamp sitting just under it (right at our fence), in fact I am surrouded by those things... This view (east) is the darkest part of my back garden sky

[Taff]

Hi' They are both nice pictures with you.Mark