Startrails - Take 2: I make the picture less blue this time. I also think that this South facing shot is less interesting than North, east or west, but there are too many street lights...

Curve_in Loc: Virginia

I make the picture less blue this time. I also think that this South facing shot is less interesting than North, east or west, but there are too many street lights to point in that direction. I had a cloud roll past which make the finial image look like it has a glow from the city.

Thanks for the comments. Next time I'll try some 30 second exposures and I'll look for a practice spot that faces north.

Take 2

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Single shot showing cloud in image

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SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Looks great Kervin!
Keep experimenting and practicing.
Even if you can't shoot the directions you might like to, all shooting helps to learn.

I don't mind clouds as long as they don't mess up my guiding. Or rain on my parade. Or stay for months on end.

Ya know what? I hate clouds. Except for time lapse.... (Best at full screen)

CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

Curve_in wrote:

I make the picture less blue this time. I also think that this South facing shot is less interesting than North, east or west, but there are too many street lights to point in that direction. I had a cloud roll past which make the finial image look like it has a glow from the city.

Thanks for the comments. Next time I'll try some 30 second exposures and I'll look for a practice spot that faces north.

Nice work Kevin.
Craig

CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

SonnyE wrote:

Looks great Kervin!
Keep experimenting and practicing.
Even if you can't shoot the directions you might like to, all shooting helps to learn.

I don't mind clouds as long as they don't mess up my guiding. Or rain on my parade. Or stay for months on end.

Ya know what? I hate clouds. Except for time lapse.... (Best at full screen)

Another nice little video Sonny.
Craig

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Thank You, Craig.
It's a bit dated. But the last time we went to the River with the kids it was too cloudy to mess with a telescope. (Aug 2015)
But not too cloudy to stop me from running off several thousands of shots of the march of the clouds to weave into a time lapse.
Lemons to Lemonade.

Then with my chit house luck, I found some free music to blend in.

My thoughts are to encourage Kervin to run anything he can and bring home many golden memories to Virginia.

dlmorris Loc: Loma Linda, Ca

HI Curvein. I think your exposures are better this time, equaling thinner star trails. I noticed some trails were curved one way, and others were curved the other way, then from your single shot (not bad, by the way) was of Orion. Orion is exactly on the celestial equator, so that is exactly what you would expect to see. So my only comment would to be let the sequence run longer (two or three hours) giving longer star trails.

Curve_in Loc: Virginia

Tonight, I finally figured out how the interval timer works on my Nikon D7000. I had the interval set on 1 sec which was telling the camera to run for 9999 seconds. I changed the interval to 30 seconds so I see what results I have in the morning.