Star Trails Field Guide

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01 · Before you leave

• Sturdy tripod, non-negotiable hereThe camera sits in exactly one position for the whole session, whether that's one very long exposure or hundreds of short ones, any drift ruins either technique
• Wide-to-standard lensA wider lens captures more sky and a longer effective trail length across the frame at a given focal length, a very long lens works but frames a much smaller patch of sky
• Intervalometer, essential for the stacked techniqueThis is how the whole stacked technique runs, hundreds of frames back to back with a gap as close to zero as the camera allows, see setup and settings below for why that gap matters so much

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What's inside the full guide

• 02Setting up on siteFraming and the exposure sequence, tailored to your chosen technique.
• 03Starting settingsExact ISO, aperture and shutter speed worked out for your camera and lens.
• 04Stacking or editing the trailA full stacking-or-editing workflow for your chosen software, raw frames through to a finished trail.

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