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Star Trails above Taif
Star Trails above Taif
These star trails were photographed in Taif, west of Saudi Arabia. The exposure lasted for 2 hours (240 images were combined together using Software Star Trails 1.0)

Mohammad J. Al-Mumen

 
 
 

Sara Shortt
 

Do you know what your settings were for this picture? I love taking star trail pictures, but have problems getting the settings just right - usually the sky ends up with too much light. Looks like you got it just right in this one!


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March 18, 2008

 

Mohammad J. Al-Mumen
  Instead of taking the exposure in one long shot, I divided the exposure to 30 sec shorter exposures. then I combined all the exposures into one shot using hte program Star Trail 1.0.

I used about 240 photos to get the above shot.


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March 19, 2008

 

Mohammad J. Al-Mumen
  Deviding the one long exposure to shorter exposures insures that the light does not accomulate as you shoot.


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March 19, 2008

 
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