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            Star Trails - Portland Bill Lighthouse, Dorset

Recently decided to try a star trails shot at Portland Bill Lighthouse as virtually no moon and it had set anyway. Rather difficult there to point north to Polaris to get the conventional circles. I think you would have to be so close to the lighthouse it would block most of the sky or you'd be in the water! 

I wanted to experiment with some other patterns and decided to set up for the Lighthouse and just see what I got. 
Took a series of 25s exposures lasting about 75mins for the star trails and then stacked them in Starstax. I then blended the stacked trails shot with a 4min exposure I took of the lighthouse, cropped it a little and spent quite a while removing hot pixels as I'd not taken a dark frame on site (note to self!!) Not 100% happy with the blending but I don't think there is harm in showing my 'growing pains' with astro. and I do enjoy it although I find it challenging and certainly not something that my workflow is 'automatic' yet.

Thanks for viewing and hope everyone has a great weekend.

© All rights reserved Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.

Taken in: UK / England / Weymouth and Portland District / Easton (show map)

Taken on: June 2, 2022

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Camera: Canon EOS R5, f/8.0, 240 sec, 15mm, ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS R5
Lens:	RF15-35mm F2.8 L IS USM
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	240
Focal Length:	15mm
ISO:	800
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Exposure Program:	Unknown (9)
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	Adobe RGB
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