Beechworth Star Scape

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Beechworth Star Scape

[Public Domain] 8 Mar 2005 Dylan O'Donnell
CATEGORY : Astrophotography
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The darkness of a moonless night in rural Australia is overwhelming. I have used two exposures here, the first a 31 minute exposure with aperture 3.5 and ISO 100, the second a 34 second exposure at ISO 1600 to punctuate the stars. I then blended the two photos into a single frame to create the ‘shooting star’ effect.

The occasional car coming over the rise illuminated the tree on the right creating a strange polarization at the bottom of the photo.

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