Star Trails (Preliminary)

First attempts at star trails. Nikon D850 or D800. Laowa 12 f2.8 lens unless noted otherwise. 25-29 second exposures in 30 second intervals. Exposures made under quarter moon lighting in the Wee Thump Wilderness area south of Las Vegas, NV.

Half Moon Lighting at Wee Thump Wilderness Area
That is McCarran Airport traffic in the lower left.
Joshua Tree Under the Stars
This is what happens when you use the D850 builtin intervalometer with a 30 second exposure and a 30 second interval. It skips every other interval, thus the disconnected trails. I don't know what the three parallel vertical lines in the center top are

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Star Trails (Preliminary)