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Old 15-04-2012, 08:18 PM
cjpops (Craig)
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beginners star trails attempt & q's

Hi all,

Trying to familiarize myself with a new 600D Canon and here's my attempt at star trails photography.. the lens is a Tokina 11-16..

about 3.5 hours worth of images processed in StarStaX. (800ISO, f8 & focus to infinity)

Any suggestions on how to get the actual 'colors' out of the stars from the SLR rather than bumping up the saturation in Pixelmator? (or photoshop)

Wondering if i need to play around with the white balance in the camera setup or ?? The canon camera seem to have worst noise at over 1600 ISO so i stayed at 800ISO unless there's a way of getting around the noise problem at 1600+ ISO..

Also, I would like to capture the milky way without any trail effect - is there any way of doing this? will i need some sort of tracking mount - i've only got a 12" dob with no tracking and this is obviously not suitable..

Any tips would be appreciated!
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