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  • Startrails Settings to Try

    Startrails Settings to Try

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    14 July, 2025 — Try setting up the camera with the following parameters for a totally circular and dense startrails shoot, kind of like this one from Mike Shaw’s book, THE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO ASTROPHOTGRAPHY: 14mm ISO 1600 f/2.8 20 seconds 800 images 800 images x 20 seconds = 16,000 seconds 16,000 seconds / 60…

  • Star Trails and Moon Photos

    Star Trails and Moon Photos

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    Various photos from my startrails and moon shoots. Buck Moon on 10 July, 2025. Four image stack in Photoshop. Below is the YouTube version of the above single shot. Craters are apparent in this enlarged version of the same moon: Shooting with 60 megapixels really allows for magnifying everything without pixelation.

  • Star Trails Recipe

    Star Trails Recipe

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    9 July, 2025 — Here’s how to get perfect star trails shots no matter where you live. Light pollution or perfect Bortle 2 makes no difference. Light trails are great no matter what. Follow these bullet points for the best shots. Once all the images have been captured, you are ready to develop them and…

  • Star Trails With Sigma 14mm Lens

    Star Trails With Sigma 14mm Lens

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    8 July, 2025 — This is a test image, and it came out pretty darned good. It was nice of a plane to fly through the middle of the shot. Focal length: 14mm, ISO-100, f/1.4, 15 second exposure, 120 shots. This image has been compressed to save space on the server, but the image still…

  • Exposure Settings for Common Astro Subjects

    Exposure Settings for Common Astro Subjects

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    If tracking is used, then shutter speeds can be 4 to 5 minutes long. People can be frozen if lighting is briefly used on them with longer shutter speeds. (Note that the A7R5 has an amazing sensor that is very night friendly. The ISO can probably be run even lower than shown above in many…

  • Three Stages of Twilight

    Three Stages of Twilight

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    Twilight follows sunset and precedes sunrise. Each evening of astrophotography begins or ends when the top of the sun touches the horizon at sunset. (Moonrise and moonset also begin when the top of the moon touches the local horizon.) Dark night is defined as the period when the sun is 18 degrees or more below…

  • Places to Visit for Great Astrophotos

    Places to Visit for Great Astrophotos

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    Arches National Park, UTAH Zion National Park, UTAH Joshua Tree National Park, CA Lake Arrowhead, CA Borrego Springs Metal Sculptures, Borrego Springs, CA Maroon Bells near Aspen, CO for a 20-image stack. Find a mountain range with a lake in the foreground. Glamis Dunes, Glamis, CA The VLA – Very Large Array of radio dish…

  • Yosemite Moonrise Monday, October 25, 2026

    Yosemite Moonrise Monday, October 25, 2026

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    This is the shot I want to get, and here’s how to do it. At 4:30 p.m. on October 25, 2026, park in the Tunnel View parking lot in Yosemite National Park. From 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. set up gear using a remote shutter release cable and best tripod, exactly midway along the viewing overlook…

  • Star Trails – Steps To Creation

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    Capture RAW images. Import them to Lightroom, choose one and edit to taste. Then synchronize remainder of images to the edited image. Try to start shooting halfway through the evening’s nautical twilight. Set exposure for dark sky.

  • Star Trails – First Attempt

    Star Trails – First Attempt

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    The following is my first ever star trails photo. This was from a sequence of 230 shots, each 10 seconds long. ISO was 200. Used the Sigma 14mm. A reference image was created in Lightroom, then the remaining images synchronized to the reference. All images were then exported into a folder for processing into star…