Star Trails by lynne5477

Star Trails

My first attempt at star trails. I would have picked a different locations with mountains as the backdrop but our leader wanted some reflection from water and it just so happened this location was right on the highway. We only tried this one night so I'll have to find time again to try it at a different location. Problem is that we have to drive at least a couple hours out of town to find some dark skies.
@mikegifford Mike, I think you challenged a while back to shoot star trails and the best I could do at the time was to get a very faint shot of the big dipper. Well, here's my first star trails shot.
November 23rd, 2014  
A very good shot,a good first try!
November 23rd, 2014  
Cool Star trail, i have tried a couple, but can't be bothered with the drive out of town!
November 23rd, 2014  
fantastic. Is this one long exposer or muliple shots combined ?
November 23rd, 2014  
@lesip Leslie, it's around 200 shots combined. We shot 30 second exposures for 2 hours.
November 23rd, 2014  
@andy_holding Andy, thanks, and I know what you mean about driving a distance to get these shots. We were in Fort Davis, TX, where the McDonald Observatory is so knew it was our chance for star trails. I just would have chosen a different location but someone else chose this one so it is what it is.
November 23rd, 2014  
Great..
November 23rd, 2014  
You did a great job with the trails.
November 23rd, 2014  
@lynne5477 thanks
November 23rd, 2014  
Stunning Lynne. Just fantastic
November 24th, 2014  
@jan20 @danette @mikekutz Thanks for viewing and commenting on the star trails. I really appreciate it.
November 24th, 2014  
nicely captured. I have not yet tried this
November 24th, 2014  
Wow! Wonderful... way beyond my competencies. :) Lovely result.
November 24th, 2014  
@rosiekerr Rosie, you just set your camera to take 30second shots and take about 200 shots. There is free software you can download that then stacks the shots on top of each other and voila! you have star trails.
November 24th, 2014  
Great shot. Looks like that site worked well.
November 24th, 2014  
wow!
November 24th, 2014  
Beautiful!! Your first attempt worked much better than mine! :)
November 24th, 2014  
@byrdlip @debilz @anniemc051 Thanks for viewing and commenting. I really do appreciate it.
November 24th, 2014  
Wow great first try.
November 25th, 2014  
Awesome first attempt! This is on my bucket list.
November 30th, 2014  
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