Star Trails / Star Trails

[cvansickler]

I am a film guy trying to make my way to digital. I just purchased a D200, and am curious to see if anyone has any beta on how to shoot star trails/star streaks with a digital without getting a bunch of noise.

[Gordon]

The unfortunately honest answer is shoot with a Canon.

You can do it with a Nikon digital by taking lots of frames over time and layering them, but this is the one area that Canon has Nikon beat, cold.

[johnastovall]

Originally Posted by cvansickler

I am a film guy trying to make my way to digital. I just purchased a D200, and am curious to see if anyone has any beta on how to shoot star trails/star streaks with a digital without getting a bunch of noise.

Tons of stuff on the net about it. Google is your friend.

http://www.robertreeves.com/startrails.htm

http://www.astropix.com/HTML/I_ASTRO...OD/TRIPOD2.HTM

http://www.bahneman.com/liem/photos/...51007213707361

http://www.danheller.com/star-trails.html

[JamesB]

you can shoot several shorter exposures and combine them in your favorite image software to get the same effect as a single long exosure.

also stacking will help reduce noise.

James

[engstrom]

Just take a series of exposures and stack them. Make the shutterspeed as long as possible without inducing too much noise. I believe I shot these at 5 minutes f4 ISO 320 then stack about 9 of 'em to get this shot. If you need to drop the time to 120 seconds to get rid of noise then just take more pictures and stack 'em.

http://www.texasphotoforum.com/forum...ad.php?t=33060

[venchka]

One area where film is WAY easier. Set the shutter to B or T. Open the shutter. Lock the cable release. Go have fun. Come back in a few hours. Piece of cake.