Vincent Miu took Runner-Up in the 2009 Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest, Earth & Space category, with this entry.
I imagine it's a long exposure shot grafted onto a single shot, but I'm not sure. Anyone know how he achieved this beautiful result?
Link | Link to the Grand Winner
At least, that's what I would do if I were trying to recreate this effect.
Nice try though.
Jill
Jill.. :facepalm:
Dude.. Posible.. most likely .. not... its an easy shot if u practice with other stars...
The way i figure he did it was a dual long exposures sandwiched ... Most DSLRs and SLRs have the option to combine several shots in the same frame...
So basically he took one shot (prolly calculated times with other celestial bodies he had shot before) then took the 2nd shot for less (less is kinda an understatement here) time on top of the first...
BTW. im in no way undermining the beauty of the shot... Photography needs not be complicated to achieve results as most ppl would make you think...
For the technical side of it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_exposure
The way you do a shot like this is to set your camera to take non-stop exposures of about 10-25 seconds/piece. You then stack them on top of each other using a program called "Startrails".
It's easy to do, but time-consuming. The weather also has to cooperate (My camera nearly broke because of the humidity one night).
Not photoshop.
So stop calling "fake" like this was ebaumsworld.
What is less certain is if there is a certain aperture iso perhaps focus as well, to allow the moon and planets of that magnitude to make that trail as a time exposure, without exposing other startrails in the process