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Old 03-11-2009, 06:04 PM
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First attempt at star trails with the dSLR

Hi all,

I had hoped to do some long star trails while camping at Lake Cootharaba last weekend. I set up at about 10 pm, and had a nice view over the moonlit lake with Orion and Canis major rising. Unfortunalely i only got about half an hour of 30 second exposure done before the clouds became too thick .

Anyway, I stacked them and here is the result. There's also a little timelapse movie showing the clouds, in the zipped file.

Finally, a question: Does anyone know if there is a plug-in that will let the Startrails software read RAW format images? The jpgs coming out of my Pentax camera seem to generate lots of noise in the resulting star trails image. Any ideas?

Cheers,
Stephen
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