Better Star Trails Photographs with StarStaX
Long, swirling star trail photography is on the bucket list of many photographers. In the film days, this required leaving your shutter open for one continuous exposure on the order of hours and hoping that everything would turn out just right. In the digital era, many photographers rely on a process known as stacking to take a large number of individual frames and combine them into the final image. This article will lay out how to capture incredible star trail photographs and combine them using the free program StarStaX . Shooting Your Individual Star Trails Photographs Many detailed posts have been written about how to capture individual photographs for star trails stacking, so this article will only provide a quick overview. Check out the linked posts at the end of this article for additional details. For equipment, you will need your camera, a fast wide angle lens, a sturdy tripod , a remote shutter release , and a full battery or two. A red headl...