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A bristlecone pine in California's White Mountains.

I demonstrated creating a star trails photo in a +Landscape Photography Show  hangout on G+ recently, using the free StarStaX app: http://youtu.be/YWtkgD4ofMo?t=17m43s

Since mid-June a new version 0.60 of StarStaX has added a "comet" mode to show the direction of rotation of the stars, as shown below.

I've covered the photography side of capturing star trails photos as well:
How To Take Star Trails Photos
http://activesole.blogspot.com/2011/05/creating-star-trail-images.html

With all of the starry night photos +Vic Gundotra has been posting lately, surely it's only a matter of time before he tries star trails!

A link to watch my next appearance on the Landscape Photography Show will be posted to that page on Google+ shortly before my appearance on October 8 at 7pm:
https://plus.google.com/106426215970067085617/posts

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Jeff Sullivan

Jeff Sullivan leads landscape photography workshops in national parks and public lands throughout California and the American West.

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