Star trails : sheer beauty

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gwenyi
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Star trails : sheer beauty

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http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content ... 40mred.jpg
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Ouch! My eyes!! I think this one is 'too much of a good thing'...
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Hi, a real beauty. how long is the exposure?
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128 separate five-minute images were combined to produce this result. The stars form circles about the south celestial pole but the background glow is not from light pollution. It is produced by the combined light from some of the Milky Way’s four hundred billion stars. This image was exposed with a Canon 20D camera and a 12-24mm f/4 Sigma zoom lens, set to a focal length of 12mm.
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:shock: :shock: Ohh!! Full of Stars . . . :shock: :shock:
Nice one!
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@_@ Hypnotising!


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gwenyi wrote:128 separate five-minute images were combined to produce this result. The stars form circles about the south celestial pole but the background glow is not from light pollution. It is produced by the combined light from some of the Milky Way’s four hundred billion stars. This image was exposed with a Canon 20D camera and a 12-24mm f/4 Sigma zoom lens, set to a focal length of 12mm.
128 x 5min = 10.67 hours exposue!

cool.......where was it taken?
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it is a sight to behold.looks like 1 meteor trail for the shot at the top right of the pix.
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Post by river »

nice 128 frame!! Sorry I do not have SLR, can the camera set to take 128 frame by itself or you did it manually?
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Hi,
Oh... it's taken in Belgium... see the full story:
http://www.universetoday.com/2006/08/30 ... h-hambsch/

His animated version look interesting. :)

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