Dusk til Dawn Star Trails at Lake Dornducking, Western Australia

            Nikon D5100
15mm
ISO 800
f/3.2
767 x 30 seconds

This is a 767 shot star trails image, beginning near the end of astronomical twilight (9pm) and ending just after the beginning of astronomical dawn (4am). It was taken at a small salt lake just east of Wagin, about halfway between the town and Lake Dumbelyung. The lake was completely dry with distinct pressure ridges across the dry salt surface. I shot this with my old D5100 while I was out shooting panoramas with my D5500 at other locations in the area. 
A lot of people make the mistake of shooting star trails with a high iso and wide open aperture, this will blow out the natural colours of the different spectral star types and instead make them all white. Stopping down will get you the natural colour variations of those stars and give you nice colourful trails (with a bit of help in post processing!).
   

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

Taken on: December 28, 2019

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