15minute star trail of Cassiopeia

Hi All,
I was looking back on some old photographs I did a few years back and thought that they might be worth putting up.
This was taken with a Practika DX20 with iso400 film, the 50mm lens was set to F1.8 and the exposure was 15 mins at the top of Gallows Hill near Limerick.
Time 19.12-19.27 on January 27th back in 1992.


the image is slightly damaged as it wasn't looked after too well, If I can find the negatives I'll get it reprinted. Note the satellite and the vignetting.
Here is a closeup of the W itself.


One interesting thing here is the lack of light pollution, the glow in the centre is the milkyway, I didn't use a filter, I didn't have much equipment back then really, I don't think I could get an image at that site like this these days due to the city skyglow. [/url]

Prett neat, some cool colours in there too Dave.

Incidentaly, Star Trails is the theme for this months Astrophotography Competition .

Seanie.

Impressive,
there is simply no way you could get an image like that
up there nowadays.

I was thinking to myself...
whats the bright area in the middle..
surely it cant be the milky way!
(before I read your explanation)

Incidentaly, Star Trails is the theme for this months
Seanie.

Yip, it sure is

whats the bright area in the middle..
surely it cant be the milky way!
(before I read your explanation)

It sure is along with a big of edge of field dimming, looking at it now, is that the double cluster to the middle right, I wonder to what magnitude do the stars in this image go down to ?

Is there such a thing as anti star trail software what could correct this image back to a tracked looking image ??