Thanks Bob. The shots are taken 1 after the other (using my timer cable release). The shots are then layered in a program called Starstax (free to download & available for PC, Mac & Linux) which combined the multiple 1 minute startrails into 1 long one.
This is a handy technique for cameras that get noisy at long exposures, or cameras that have no bulb mode (P&S for example). Cheers, Dave On 11 December 2011 22:42, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave, > 25 1 minute exposures? How do you make the trails continueous, > instead of dashed lines. > And the sphere is wonderful... > Regards, Bob S. > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 4:57 AM, David Savage <[email protected]> wrote: >> G'day All, >> >> A shot from Friday night >> >> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/disavage/6491672871/in/photostream/lightbox/> >> >> Direct Link >> >> <http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7149/6491672871_5d5f4f0b98_o.jpg> >> >> This was a first (serious) attempt at doing a composite star trail. >> The above image is made up of 25 1 minute exposures that were then >> blended using a program called StarStax. >> >> Enjoy. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
