{"id":6618,"date":"2013-08-09T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/?p=6618"},"modified":"2013-08-09T12:48:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T20:48:09","slug":"what-goes-on-in-your-backyard-at-night-star-trails-around-the-north-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/2013\/08\/09\/what-goes-on-in-your-backyard-at-night-star-trails-around-the-north-star\/","title":{"rendered":"What goes on in your backyard at Night? Star trails around the North Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What happens in your backyard at night. Well if you look up at the North Star, you can see the stars circling around it. To capture the effect on a camera, you need to use a tripod and multiple 30 second exposures to see it happening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6619\" title=\"Backyard Star Trials around the North Star\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Backyard-Startrails.jpg\" alt=\"Multiple 30 second exposures stacked on top of each other shows the star trails around the North Star\" width=\"876\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Backyard-Startrails.jpg 876w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Backyard-Startrails-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Backyard-Startrails-210x140.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This image shows about 50 minutes of 30 second exposures &#8216;stacked&#8221; on top of each other to create the star trails.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Canon 5D &#8211; Canon 15mm 2.8 lens at f6.3 &#8211; 30 second exposures at ISO 640 &#8211; Stacked using <a title=\"The Star Trail application to combine multiple star images\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startrails.de\/html\/software.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Star Trails Application&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens in your backyard at night. 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