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December 7, 2009
Star Trail stacking
Last night up at Castle Hill turned out to be as calm as could be, and I’ve been wanting to practise stacking star trail images (see here for a tutorial and some stunning sample images), so it was a good opportunity to take a few and try it out. Each of these is 5 x 300 second exposures stacked together with another 300 second dark frame to minimise the noise. If you look closely at the full-size image, you can also make out a satellite crossing the frame in the right-hand of the two images below. They’re not particularly interesting as is, but it was good to practise the stacking technique, and I’ll look forward to trying some more interesting ones in the future. It was a beautiful night to be out; I could hear morepork calls in the forest up behind the village.
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Posted by conor at December 7, 2009 4:34 PM