Hi all
These images were taken from Nambucca Heads on the 28th and 29th June, 2008. We're here for Planetary Imaging, but I had the other laptop with the Canon 350D on a tripod to take images of star trails all night long.
Controlled and captured via ImagesPlus, converted to TIF and then stacked using StarTrails.de.
The Northern Star Trails were taken on the 28th June, and consists of 36 x 10 minute exposures (6 hours all up), at ISO200. 1 dark frame subtracted from each. The moon rose during the last 90 minutes which lit up the foreground a bit more. The worst light pollution in the north is from Coffs Harbour.
The Southern Star Trails were taken on the 29th June, and consists of 46 x 10 minute exposure (7.66 hours all up), at ISO200. 1 dark frame subtracted from each.
The sky is nice and dark here and it's such a beautiful spot. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. I would've preferred some nice foreground interest in the southern one, but there's street lights here that I had to avoid and I couldn't go too far away cause I needed power. A wider angle lens would've been nice too.
1200px wide versions can be loaded from my gallery:
Northern Star Trails
Southern Circumpolar Star Trails
Anyway, thanks for looking.