Star Trails at Nambling Lakes - Dowerin, Western Australia

            Nikon d5100
11mm
ISO 1000
f/3.2
330 x 30 seconds

This is a 330 shot star trails image taken at Nambling Lakes near Dowerin, about 2.5 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia. This should have been closer to 390 shots but the wind was quite strong and a gust bumped the camera enough to slightly misalign it and ruin the first 50 odd shots.
This is a slightly different technique I've used in processing these shots than in the past. I noticed a few other photographers using a similar technique but I couldn't find any info on how they did it. I finally worked out that it's just simply adding comet tails to either end of the batch, one normal comet tail to start then a reverse comet tail to finish. What I did is break up the batch in thirds, run the standard comet tail  on the first third, the middle third was just a normal batch with no tail and the third batch was the reverse tail.
As usual, I used a lower ISO and stopped down on the aperture so as to not blow out the stars in order to retain their natural colour.
   

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Taken in: Australia / West Coast / Nambling (show map)

Taken on: December 22, 2020

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