Arizona AstroTimelapses

My photography Tumblr: http://mattphotos.tumblr.com/
My main purpose was to make star trails photos, as you see at the end of each timelapse, but the individual exposures make pretty cool time lapses.
Each picture is a 30 second exposure. The end photo is half an hour to an hour's worth of pictures layered together.
These were shot in Sedona, Arizona

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[lilgurby]

@ToniaGraves It is a free application for Mac, Windows, AND Linux called starstax.

Go to starstax.net

[lilgurby]

@cvsinpa That is actually exactly what the stacking software shows. (I don't use PS). And when I edit out the airplane lights, the pictures get out of order, then they look like a bunch of dots that eventually connect together to form the trail. To do what you're saying, I'd have to save every step of the stacking process. Which would be very annoying.

Some of the pictures on the last two star trails got corrupted so I was limited on how long the trail could be without gaps.

[cvsinpa]

Instead of showing each exposure by itself, you should stack one more exposure on every frame. That way, we could see the star trails building themselves, which would be VERY cool

[ToniaGraves]

Very cool! What software do you use to stack the images for the final star trail shot?