Star Trail Photography

[Jeff D. Welker]

I know a few intrepid and highly skilled shooters were working on star trail images at PASM Saturday night. As the village idiot, I was too afraid to venture into this mystic area of photography. I've since done some research. Some friendly souls have shared some information with me and I thought I'd share with you. Most of you probably already know this stuff, but for the few that may be wondering - here you go.

The "Star Circles Academy" (http://starcircleacademy.com/startrails/) is a website with lots of free information on achieving star circles. He also is selling stuff, but the free stuff appears to be good.

Also, there is a link to some freeware that can be used to help improve star trail images in post processing.

http://www.markus-enzweiler.de/software/software.html

I hope this information is helpful and I look forward to my next opportunity at PASM 

[Anna M. Wood]

I use Star Trails for stacking shots.... 

http://www.startrails.de/html/software.html

Works pretty well.  Way less resource intense then trying to stack shots in Photoshop.

[Joe Copalman]

+1 on Anna's suggestion.  That's what I used to stack my shots from Saturday night's shoot, and it worked great.