Little Dipper by homeschoolmom

Little Dipper

Well, it's not the cool star trails I wanted for my Get Pushed Challenge, but I got a picture of the little dipper. My camera won't let me leave the shutter open for 2 hours. At least not that I can figure out.
Looks great against black background!
April 15th, 2016  
@caddick Thanks!
April 15th, 2016  
@hookandy Here's my attempt at star trails. My camera can't do that, so I'll get some car light trails tonight.
April 15th, 2016  
Nice shot of the little dipper. Lisa, you don't need to leave your shutter open 2 hours for star trails. Your camera may have a setting or you can get an intervalometer (fairly cheap) which allows you to take 30 second exposures and just keep taking them. Mine will go to 399 shots. Problem is you'll most likely run out of battery but you really only need 100-150 shots to have good star trails.
April 15th, 2016  
And then you just load the shots into software (I use Starstax, I think). It's free and extremely easy.
April 15th, 2016  
@lynne5477 Sadly, my camera won't even do a 30 second exposure. It will only do about a 5 sec exposure. Sometimes I miss my old completely manual film camera.
April 17th, 2016  
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