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Creating Star Trail Photomontages in Adobe Photoshop CS6 By Dr. Robert Berdan October 20, 2012 Star Trails, Aurora borealis over Amethyst Lake in the Tonquin Valley, Jasper National Park (DM) I am fascinated by stars on a clear dark night so much so I purchased a Telescope many years back. But my real interest is photographing the star patterns, the milky way and the Aurora borealis.

Most photographers know that if you point your camera at the north star and leave it open for several minutes to several hours, the stars will appear to rotate around the north star (in the northern hemisphere) and leave a curved trail of light. In the past photographs would set up their cameras on a tripod, set the camera to B or bulb exposure mode, and then lock the shutter open for several hours. Some photographers still use this technique (e.g. George Brybycin). One of the problems with digital cameras is that if you leave the camera open too long the chip overheats and the result is a badly over exposed image.

Photographers can reduce their aperture to F8 or F11 to lengthen the exposure time before it 'blows out' but there is a better method. You can use an intervalometer to set your camera to shoot at precise intervals and set the exposure to expose the night sky for 10 sec to 5 minutes depending on your ISO speed and f/stop setting. Then you take the images and stack them on top of each other and blend them together using software like Star Stax which is available for free. The image below of the Aurora and star trails was done this way and Star Trails and Aurora borealis over Prelude lake. This image was created by taking a series of exposures at 10 second intervals using an intervalometer and then stacking the images using a free program called Star Stax - for details on how this was done see my previous article on Another way you can create star trails is to photograph the night sky and apply a 'Star trail' action using Photoshop CS5 or CS6. Actions are simply a series of steps carried out in Photoshop that are recorded and then saved so they can be applied to many images quickly.