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Old 23-05-07, 10:08
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Default Star trails

Following on from my star trails post yesterday, last night was clear so I gave that program a go. The first picture is as it happened. The house is overexposed because my neighbour's security light came on for around two minutes so I ran the program again but missing out the four guilty frames.
Now , of course, there is a gap in the star trails but it illustrates what the possibilities are. There were 43 frames altogether each 30s long set on iso 800. It was so simple to do as I was able to leave the camera running and the use of the program is very straight forward. It gives the facility of taking dark frames which I did (i.e. 6 frames with the lens cap on).

One other nice feature in the progam is that it can make a video of the set of images which is quite fun.

Dave
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