Star Trails

So far in my learning curve for AstroPhotography, I have learned how to shoot the moon.  Last night was my second attempt at getting a good shot of the stars.  Thanks to Darryl Van Gaal,  my mentor on Google+ for helping me figure all of this out....    Since I was in the business a long time ago, I knew where to look for the North star.  I made sure all of the tripod controls were tight and then I started to shoot.  Each shot was a 30 second exposure at ISO 250, and f5.6.  I used my 18mm - 70mm lens on full wide angle.  There are 25 shots in this grouping.  As you can see traffic in and out of Toronto airport was captured in a few of the frames.  I was lucky that there were only 2.  One arrival and one departure.  The shots were "stacked" with software called StarStax to get the trail effect.   This was a lot of fun, albeit that it was midnight when I arrived back home.  (June 2012)