Star Trails from my Kitchen Window

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Star Trails from my Kitchen Window

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Hi,
Inspire by boothee excellent star trails photo, I also attempt a star trails photo “the digital way” from my home kitchen in Tampines yesterday night…too lazy to go out… ha ha ha :P
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Camera: Canon 450D + EF 50mm F1.8 @ F5.0
Exposure: 60 x 60s with 10s interval @ ISO 100
All images shoot in RAW and calibrated.

Result was not that good as the sky I point at don’t have many bright stars, so have to process the image to brighten up those dim stars to make it look more like a star trails, but also brighten up the light pollution and clouds ;p. Also 10s interval gaps was too long for a 50mm lens on a 1.6 crop DSLR… should go outdoor and use a wide angle lens instead. Hope I’ll remember this next time I shoot star trails again... ha ha ha :P

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Post by zackae »

Is the the Aurora Borealis im seeing?
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Hi,
zackae wrote:Is the the Aurora Borealis im seeing?
No la.... That's was caused by the fast passing clouds. I think it's appeared greenish because the white balance was off during the image calibration process. I didn't adjust the white balance back as those dim star trails look more obvious this way (my Photoshop skills was not that good yet). :(

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Post by yybmage »

It looked better that way.
Blast off!!!!!!!
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haha..so that's what you meant when you said you were doing star trails.
Good one.
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BTW, it we can see the Aurora Borealis here, the Earth is in trouble and you need to put on SPF10,000 suntan lotion on your entire body!
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Airconvent wrote:BTW, it we can see the Aurora Borealis here, the Earth is in trouble and you need to put on SPF10,000 suntan lotion on your entire body!
HAhaha..
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Post by kingkong »

zackae wrote:Is the the Aurora Borealis im seeing?
i was thinking the same... wow no need go to the poles liao, go singapore can liao... but alas...
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Post by universe24 »

Great. Stars so thick.
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Post by boothee »

Hi Weixing,

Beautiful... I should also go out and try with Yangon City. :D

Cheers!

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