December 28, 2003
Star Trail Attempt
I have attemped another star trail shot with my SLR camera. Armed with a second hand 28mm lens and plenty of batteries, I took about 10 photos of varying exposure time. Needless to say the longest time of only 15 minutes was the winner. I was scared to try any longer in case the batteries went flat.
This was taken facing SW at around 11pm on Christmas Eve. Although this picture doesn't contain any of Santa' Reindeer, it does contain two interesting features. I'm still learning, but I'm fairly sure there is a shooting star located from the left edge in the middle, going up towards the top right hand corner. Also just above the tree in the bottom left hand corner I think is the Large Magellanic Cloud. It hangs around the South Celestrial Pole.
I did also take some other SLR shots that are worth looking at
