A new perspective on star trails

I have always shot star trails with a fisheye or ultra-wide angle lenses.  It just seemed to make sense.  More sky would equal more stars.  I tried shooting star trails at a longer focal length and was pretty happy with the new perspective.  Read on to learn why...

85mm @ f/1.6 ISO 1600 for 240 seconds.

Good news for Mac users!

Good news for those night shooters who are using Macs.  Until now the only choice we had for stacking shots was an action in Photoshop.  The widely used Startrails.app was limited to windows which has always been a major nuisance to say the least.  Photoshop did a wonderful job but was slow and tied up memory which limited what other tasks could be done simultaneously.