Recent star trails

tsk1979

It was very cold(3-5 degree C)
But the skies were very clear

Venus setting

Polaris

Another Venus pic

Through the Foliage

Awais Yaqub

These are superb Tanveer. Seriously i am looking for a spot to try these !

coscorrosa

Very cool! I really like that last one through the trees, a different take on star trail shots, and it turned out really good.

Robinivich

clap

Wow!!!

Care to share some exposure information for the jealous ones in the crowd?

Tylwydd

These are great shots ! You make me want to try such captures too !

bryanj87

That through the foliage shot is incredible!!

tsk1979

Thanks fellows.
All these "trail" exposures were in bulb mode and atleast 15 minutes long.
The one with Polaris was 1575 seconds.
I used F3.5 on the kit lens at ISO 200 for these shots.
Normally when its not cold I use ISO 100


The no trail point exposures were ISO 1600 30 seconds at F4

Candid Arts

15 minutes and you got that amount of trail? Shoot I was trying 25 minutes and 30 minutes and couldn't get that much trail. May it have something to do with the fact that your in India and I tried mine in Alaska because it's farther north? I dunno.

Great photos though! The "through the foliage" one is fantastic.

tsk1979

Oops my bad its actually 1575 seconds which comes to around 25 minutes. you can see that as I was facing the pole star, the trails around the pole star are very short, but as we go away, trails get longer.
If you point camera towards E/S/W you will get longer trails, but no pole star effect.

jogle

I took some in New Zealand with my new 5DII recently, thought you might like to see what the sky looks like from the other side of the world.... we have no southern star like you have a northern star

http://www.ogle.co.nz/gallery/7021541_NtuiQ#451381574_Vnk6W

tsk1979

jogle wrote:

I took some in New Zealand with my new 5DII recently, thought you might like to see what the sky looks like from the other side of the world.... we have no southern star like you have a northern star

http://www.ogle.co.nz/gallery/7021541_NtuiQ#451381574_Vnk6W

Wooo! Thats amazing. The sky is even clearer than here. What are your exposure parameters? Though I could see milky way, it was nowhere bright enough to capture

jogle

this was 100km away from the nearest city (Christchurch) They should be geotagged so you can see the location. The fisheye shots were a manual lens and were around f4.5. The others have all the EXIF info on.

The air is beautifully clear down here. Come visit and I'll show you around