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CapturingTheNight — Entering The Half Pipe
Published: 2012-02-14 08:36:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 3605; Favourites: 126; Downloads: 0
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© Greg Gibbs. You may not use, replicate, manipulate, or modify this image without my permission. All Rights Reserved.The third quarter moon rises on the horizon and enters the "half pipe".
I made a big mistake with this startrail. For the second time in a row I forgot to dial in my custom white balance. The camera tries its best but the auto white balance setting leads to unnatural star colours. Until I get around to manually changing the white balance on all the RAW files this will have to do for now.
Some of you may be wondering why I didn't have my astrophotography setup out on a good night like this. The truth is I have had a back/hip problem for the last two weeks and I physically can not lift the heavy mount. Hopefully recover soon.
Canaon 60D
Tamron 10-24mm @ 10mm
Aperture F/3.5
ISO 800
245 times 30 second exposures
Stacked in "startrails.exe"
Final processing in PS CS3
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I like seeing how the trails curve in the opposite direction on opposite sides of the celestial equator.
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Thanks for the feedback Bert
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Anyway, nice grabs on this, Greg
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Thanks John 
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You're welcome
Sounds like a deal to me!
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Thank you so much Pierre
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Thank you very much
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Thanks
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Wow it's interesting how the curves of the trails change.. Is that because of the type of lense you use? I am really curious!
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Thank you
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Oh hurp de durp, why did I not realise that >.< !! Yes I completely understand, thankyou!
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If you can't lift your mount Greg I'll happily take it off your hands
Dont get down on yourself, this is a really great shot dude, I really like it (mutters under his breath about wanting to try this for ages). Awesome trails, and I think your colours look alright, out of interest what is your white balance in Kelvin?
Nice shot dude 
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Damn *plots*
My skies are pretty good, but not as good as yours. Next decent night I'm going to work on this idea, I've just auto balanced in the past, and it generally seems to be favourable. But I'd like to have it bang on.
Glad to hear you're feeling better, don't slip on any banana skins
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really great and i hope you start to feel better soon
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Thank you so much Nathan
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Good to hear. Did you have any luck with the lappy?
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Have not got one yet. Still thinking about what would best suit my needs. Might have to replace my desktop computer soonish too so money might become an issue with the lappy. May need to put it on hold for a while.
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Awesome startrail mate! Changing all the RAW files would have taken forever! Where was this one taken?
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Thank you so much Clive
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Haha yeah well you can be excused for being a little lazy! Especially with 245 files to change!
You're pretty lucky to get this view from your back deck! In Sydney we can hardly even see the stars with all the light pollution! Hoping to get out and about again soon and experiment with some more startrails...
My last one was shot in jpeg so will be interesting to see the difference when shot in RAW, do you have to convert all the files to tiff first or can startrails handle RAW files?
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Startrails can not handle RAW files. So yeah if you want better quality or to change a setting then you would need to convert them all to Tiffs. I'll let you in on a little secret. All the star trails in my gallery were processed from just the jpegs. I still have all the RAWs (I shoot in RAW + jpeg) so if I ever get around to launching a website and offering prints I will reprocess the best ones from the RAWs for the best possible print quality. I think I will need a rainy month for that 
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haha yeah that will certainly take a while!! I was quite happy shooting in jpeg for the startrails as I had to degrade the quality of the images anyway as startrails kept crashing! Not sure if its an issue with the program or with my computer, but I'm running a fairly decent setup so didnt think it would be an issue...
Whats the highest resolution you use in startrails? I'm shooting at 18MP...
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18MP is what my camera shoots at too. Never had an issue with it crashing on my jpegs. Maybe try downloading the latest version and see how it goes??? or.....there is another program very similar to startrails. StarStax [link] produces exactly the same results but has a few features that startrails does not have and vice versa.
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Maybe I had too many other programs running in the background...tends to slow things down a bit!! I'll check out StarStax as well thanks
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Thank you very much Martin for both the praise and get well wishes
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This is pretty cool. I like how the star trail is... what's that word? Not angled but... Best way I can describe it at the moment is it looks like sound waves coming from opposite ends )))((( and colliding. Very cool
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Thank you so much for the great feedback
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Ah! the bane of Manual controls; Forgetting to reset the WB, ISO, or whatever setting. Something always slips outta mind!
LOL! I think of it as our frequent flyer reward for using auto modes.
OH I can relate to the hurts getting in the way.
Health issues are why my photo &/or astro work has few & far between...
especially in the colder months.
Good luck & speedy recovery.
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HaHa
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it`s...i love the stars more than anything in this world,i love how i can imagine their songs...it`s lovely
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I'm very glad you like it.
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I hope your back gets better. That is exactly why I have not had my scope out. I want that 60D !
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Thank you very much mate
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I might be interested in that 60D if the freight is not too much!
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Wow, that's a different star trail than I normally see. I actually like the different colours of the stars.
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Thank you very much for the great feedback and well wishes Margaret
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Having your own observatory would certainly be cool. My injuries don't restrict me in the fact that when I have the camera in my hands and up to my face everything else goes away. It's after that it rears it's ugly head, but I'll be stuffed if I'm going to let that get in the way of my photography. Besides I'm not adverse to popping a pill.....or two.
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Thank you so much Michael
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