Star Trails into the Sky Glow

[Deeno]

Arose around 3am, after the moon had set to have a go at some star trails over the HawkesburyRiver.
Unfortunately used to low an ISO rating and had to push it a little in Photoshop.

240, 30 second exposures at f3.5 and ISO200
Stacked in startrails.de
Nikon D200, Nikor Ed 18-70mm at 18mm.

Cheers
Deeno

[gmbfilter (Geoff)]

Fantastic Deeno, never seen anything like it

[h0ughy (David)]

great shot - love the reflection

[AlexN]

Thats awesome! I think that beats the star trails from last week mate!

[Matty P (Matt)]

Another awesome image of star trails Deeno. Love the framing. Very well done.

I had a go myself at capturing star trails this evening but was stopped short by dew forming on the lens. I captured only about 20 frames.

[iceman (Mike)]

Very nicely done. Would've been even better to see a bit more of the reflections.

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

That's beautiful Deeno
I think the composition is very nice too.
Makes me want to give this kind of shot a go, so I suppose your shot could also be described as 'inspirational'!!

Very well done
Doug

[Deeno]

Originally Posted by gmbfilter

Fantastic Deeno, never seen anything like it

Thanks again Geoff. Really enjoying trying these.

Originally Posted by h0ughy

great shot - love the reflection

Thanks Houghy

Originally Posted by AlexN

Thats awesome! I think that beats the star trails from last week mate!

Cheers Alex but, I really stuffed this one up a bit.

Originally Posted by Matty P

Another awesome image of star trails Deeno. Love the framing. Very well done.

Originally Posted by Matty P

I had a go myself at capturing star trails this evening but was stopped short by dew forming on the lens. I captured only about 20 frames.

Thanks Matt Knocked up a dew strap from the resister recipe found here in IceInSpace which is then velcroed to the lens hood. Works a treat!

Originally Posted by iceman

Very nicely done. Would've been even better to see a bit more of the reflections.

Thanks Mike. Next time I’ll double the ISO. The reflections can be bought out in Photoshop but, it makes the foreground really ugly.

[rollmebackagain]

what program do you use to stack the photos? I want to make some Northern Hemisphere star trails but I'm not sure how to stack the photos

thanks!

that's a sweet picture by the way

[Deeno]

Originally Posted by rollmebackagain

what program do you use to stack the photos? I want to make some Northern Hemisphere star trails but I'm not sure how to stack the photos

thanks!

that's a sweet picture by the way

Google StarTrails.de
Really easy to use software. And its free!!

[Rick Petrie]

Deeno
Great shot mate.
Looks like an access tunnel into the south celestial cosmos.
Nice setting too.

[RB (Andrew)]

Wow what a lovely shot mate.
Love the composition too.
Well done.

ISO 400 would be better and maybe add a single ISO800 or a short ISO1600 just to bring out the foreground a bit next time.

[Alchemy (Clive)]

looks nice, usually everyone hates skyglow but you have used it with great effect

[Inmykombi (Geoff)]

Amazing image Deeno.

It looks like we could just step into the time tunnel for a ride somewhere.

The water looks just like glass....well done mate.