Star trails

Whether you consider the 500 Rule to be outdated for today's high-resolution digital cameras or not, this formula is still a very useful guideline for astrophotography.

Photographing star trails is great fun! Learn how to do it - everything from setting up your camera to processing the sequence later - with this tutorial.

Leserbild: »Star Trails imaged on Mount Etna on January 15th, 2022, with start of shooting at 03:24 and end of shooting at 06:23 (Time expressed in local time). The peculiarity of this image thus created is that the landscape is illuminated by the lights of dawn while the recorded star trail was imaged during the night. «

Shooting in Shutter Priority (S for Nikon or Tv for Time Value for Canon) allows you to set the shutter speed of your camera. For point-and-shoot cameras, you can use Long Shutter mode to select speeds of a second or longer. This article provides a series of creative ideas to try using shutter speed. Quick Shutter Speeds Levitation style shots can be a lot of fun, and you can achieve some amazing looks simply by jumping and using a quick shutter speed. This article, 9 Tips for Better Jumping…

This was the final process of one of my star trail photos - previous one had some headlights on one side. A friend I had at the time referred to the photo with reference to the lights so it sparked in my head to remove it and remember about eyes are attracted to the light. Also simplifies the composition by removing an unneeded element. I received a commendation for Astrofest 2014 (Perth) for this image - referring that if the stars were a little less blue would have been a winner ;). I…

The Milky Way is so beautiful and at its peak late summer, around August. Glacier Point is one of the best places to view and photograph the Milky Way!

Star Trails over Heart Lake 60 minute exposure. It was about 28 degrees this night and fog was forming over the water. The glow over the mountains in the background was probably from the town of Lake Placid. And the purple/white streak in the sky is from the Milky Way.

Telescopes and star trails. Mauna Kea, Big Island, Hawaii, USA,Part of gallery of color pictures of Oceania by professional photographer QT Luong, available as prints or for licensing.

On a clear moonless night in August, star-trails arch through the sky above Waldo Lake. At the center, and wobbling above the axis of the Earths rotation, the North Star Polaris looks down from our perspective. Willamette National Forest, Lane County, Central Oregon Cascades. #waldolake #lanecounty #centraloregon #oregon #willamettenationalforest

Russian photographer Daniel Kordan is a master of photographing the cosmos. In 2016 we covered his journey to the Salar de Uyuni, where he captured millions of brilliantly hued stars reflected in the world’s largest salt flat. Recently, Kordan returned from a trip to Namibia where he mapped swirling trails of stars above the Deadvlei, a white clay pan speckled with the 900-year-old tree skeletons, and other sites across the Namib desert. More