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CapturingTheNight — Entering The Half Pipe
Published: 2012-02-14 08:36:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 3606; 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 still like it 
If it wasn't for the unnatural coloured stars in the top right corner I'd say most of the stars were of a natural colour at a glance
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Thanks Shaun 
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Sooo...what's your custom white balance like? Do you use something close to the colors of the stars or something?
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Yeah after a heap of experimentation I have worked out the Kelvin Temperature for the White Balance for my dark sky location to give natural star colours. Some examples when I actually remember to change the WB [link] and [link] Leaving it on auto produces to many 'brown' stars for my liking. I will sit down one day and manually change the white balance of all the sub frames to this shot but at 245 subframes I'll leave it for a very rainy day. This will have to do for now.
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