Star Trails, Streaks and Air Glow

[iceman (Mike)]

This star trails image was taken on the Friday night (night 2) of the IISAC2013 star party, at Lostock in the Hunter Valley of NSW. There was a little cloud about which turned into nice streaks in this stacked image captured over 25 minutes.

Green airglow was also very evident during the star party, and has made an appearance in a lot of images from the star party. It again makes an appearance here, seen on the bottom left of the sky.

My favourite 5 trees made an appearance yet again

I had to reduce the dimensions considerably to get it under 200kb. Click the large below.

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The image is made up of 50 x 30s exposures, captured with a Canon 6D and Samyang 14mm lens, ISO6400 f/2.8.

The images were stacked in StarStax and then processed in Photoshop.

Thanks for looking!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Pretty cool. Looks like the time tunnel from the 70s.

[pmenear (Peter)]

Stunning image! Only 25 minutes of trails, was that by choice or by necessity?

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Gaud, I dont remember seeing anything like that. Really cool pic, but are you sure you didnt PS in that orange streaky stuff?.

[jonathandael]

looks like a star party from the 60s! Psychedelic!

[lacad01 (Adam)]

A bit like fireworks, nice shot

[iceman (Mike)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Pretty cool. Looks like the time tunnel from the 70s.

Thanks Marc

Originally Posted by pmenear

Stunning image! Only 25 minutes of trails, was that by choice or by necessity?

Thanks Peter. By necessity - my lens fogged up

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Gaud, I dont remember seeing anything like that. Really cool pic, but are you sure you didnt PS in that orange streaky stuff?.

You were still too busy trying to align your polarie you forgot to look up

Originally Posted by jonathandael

looks like a star party from the 60s! Psychedelic!

Thanks

Originally Posted by lacad01

A bit like fireworks, nice shot

Thanks Adam.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Love the colours, Mike

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

I... see... five.. treeeess...

Nice

Mike

[iceman (Mike)]

I dream about them, Mike

[ourkind (Carlos)]

Excellent work Mike love it!