spinning wildly out of control
well, i finally had a perfectly clear night to shoot star trails.  the only downside was that it was an waxing gibbous moon (87% illuminated) which lit up the sky.  :( oh well, you take what you can get...

i set my tripod up in my front yard facing the north star.  here are 469 images over almost 4 and a half hours stacked using starstax (from 9:23pm to 1:40am - when my battery died - dew was also forming on the lens at that point).  i used the new comet feature of the program which makes the stars sort of look like comet trails.  the amazing upside to this feature is that it took out 7 of the messy looking plane trails that were in the stacked photo!

images were 30 seconds at 1600 ISO and f/5.

see time lapse video here:  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynnharmstrong/9541450371/">www.flickr.com/photos/lynnharmstrong/9541450371/</a>

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