startrails

You’ve seen photos of star trails, and time-lapse videos of stars, but how about a combination of the two? …

Photographer Lincoln Harrison captures jaw-dropping photographs of star trails. Shooting from the Australian outback, he spends up to 15 hours creating each image of the night sky. Shooting with a Nikon D7000, Nikon D3100, and a wide assortment of lenses, Harrison captures a large number of exposures of the foreground and stars separately. He then combines the images (sometimes hundreds of them) into amazing photographs showing the sky dominated by colorful star trails.

Night photographer Ben Canales made this image by stacking together roughly 50 different …

Photographer Mike Rosinski created this amazing image showing light trails from both fireflies and stars by stacking over 370 …

You don’t need fancy camera gear to capture beautiful images and video of the night sky. The above video …

This is an amazing 1.5 hour exposure taken at the Gippsland Lakes in Australia by Phil Hart, showing both star trails and the crazy blue light given off by a bioluminescent algae called Noctiluca scintillans, commonly known as the Sea Sparkle.