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First star trail photo

Postby Ron Hunter » Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:31 pm

Today I created my first star trail photo. My son and I spent about 2 hours in a field last night photographing the night sky. I used Tony Northrup's tips to create the photo and I'm happy with how it turned out. There were many airplanes that flew through the field of view and I had to delete those from the compilation, but I still think it turned out nice:
GH4 on tripod
12mm Oly lens (manual focus, no image stabilization)
f/2.0, 30" shutter
ISO800
Photos processed in Lightroom CC
Photos compiled using Starstax

What do you think of this?
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Re: First star trail photo

Postby Steve Grisetti » Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:04 pm

Beautiful work, Ron!
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Re: First star trail photo

Postby Chuck Engels » Wed Mar 30, 2016 6:05 pm

Wow, that is really awesome :TU:
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Re: First star trail photo

Postby Peru » Wed Mar 30, 2016 6:15 pm

It's a work of art.
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Re: First star trail photo

Postby sidd finch » Wed Mar 30, 2016 7:10 pm

Ron that does look really cool. GREAT job.

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Re: First star trail photo

Postby momoffduty » Thu Mar 31, 2016 10:10 am

Looks stellar Ron! Sorry for the pun. ;) Great job! :TU:
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Re: First star trail photo

Postby Dave McElderry » Thu Mar 31, 2016 11:35 am

momoffduty wrote:Looks stellar Ron!

I don't get it.
Not what I was expecting Ron, but Wow! is that gorgeous.
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Re: First star trail photo

Postby sidd finch » Thu Mar 31, 2016 1:11 pm

I don't get it.


I think she meant to say it was out of this world.

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Re: First star trail photo

Postby Peru » Thu Mar 31, 2016 1:45 pm

sidd finch wrote:
I don't get it.


I think she meant to say it was out of this world.

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Or to bring back an oldie from the 70s:

Far out!
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Re: First star trail photo

Postby Ron Hunter » Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:42 pm

Thanks everyone, I appreciate your kind words!
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Re: First star trail photo

Postby _Paz_ » Sat Apr 02, 2016 6:34 am

hmm. I'm guessing you found a clear view of the sky without trees, lights, etc. Aimed at Polaris, took a shot every 30 seconds for two hours. Then processed. Is that right?

However you accomplished it, it is beautiful. Imagine this as a puzzle!
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Re: First star trail photo

Postby Ron Hunter » Sat Apr 02, 2016 8:33 pm

That's exactly right Patrice. I edited the photos in Lightroom, exported them as JPGs, and used "StarStax" (free software) to stack all of the images together. The first "stack" had aircraft traffic forming bright straight lines in the image, so I had to remove those. There was so much traffic that half of the images were lost, thus the gaps in the trails.

Next time I would like to take photos later in the night to avoid aircraft traffic. I will also change the angle so that the horizon is included in the frame for reference. That will eliminate the "full circle" effect but I think it will look good.
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Re: First star trail photo

Postby sidd finch » Sun Apr 03, 2016 1:25 pm

Ron I look forward to seeing more of you and your son's handy work.

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