Photo and Video of the Night Sky Over Birubi Beach Sand Dunes

[iceman (Mike)]

When you’re on a family holiday over christmas, it’s 10pm at night and the skies are clear and you feel the need to do some photography, what better option than to head into the sand dunes at Birubi Beach and take some star trail photos.

So there I was, sitting in the sand dunes while the camera clicked away with 1-minute exposures, feeling like I was in the middle of nowhere but still connected as I browsed my favourite websites on my laptop with the NextG wireless modem until my laptop battery went flat.

I was able to grab about 60 x 1-minute exposures until the camera battery went flat.

Click the link below to see the image, and a video showing the beautiful parts of our southern sky rising over the Birubi Beach Sand Dunes (as well as the cars, and the cargo ship!). You’ll also find more information including capture and processing details and why I took so long to post this image live.

Photo and Video of the Night Sky Over Birubi Beach Dunes

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[theodog (Jeff)]

Nice.

[h0ughy (David)]

gee a hive of activity there - lucky you didnt get run over. nice star trails Mike

[Phil]

Very cool Mike well done.
Phil

[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi Mike,
Nice trails and love the video.
Time lapse is very effective, can't think of anything more pleasant than spending the night at the beach watching the night sky and listening to the waves.

I'm jealous, we are heading into our 3rd week of over 40C temps and a night by the beach would be a great relief.

Regards
Trevor

[gregbradley]

Thats way cool.

Greg.

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks guys.

[RB (Andrew)]

Yep, very nice mate !

[Hagar (Doug)]

Star trails look interestion Mike. Something I have never tried. The video looks like quite a lot of work to take all those images and put them together.'