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Star Trails Photo Gallery - A

Part A

Photographs by Fred Espenak

The graceful arc of star trails across the night sky is one of the easiest astro-images to capture. Nevertheless, these timeless photos of infinity continue to fascinate and delight us.

The following photo gallery offers a collection of star trails for you to enjoy.

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SS97/97SS51n
Circumpolar Star Trails Over Bolivia
(97SS51w)
Circumpolar Star Trails Over Bolivia (97SS51w)

The southern stars gracefully arc over a shore-side cabana at Lake Titicaca. The two hour time exposure demonstrates the rotation of Earth on its axis by revealing the apparent motions of the stars.

Southern Sky & Milky Way (Lake Titicaca, Bolivia)
16mm f/2.8 Nikkor, Fuji Super G 800 Plus, 2 hours @ f/4
Photo ©1997 by Fred Espenak

SS97/97SS62n
Mud Huts and Star Trails
(97SS62w)
Mud Huts and Star Trails (97SS62w)

Circumpolar star trails mark the south celestial pole as they circle above native Bolivian mud huts on the shore of Lake Titicaca.

Southern Sky & Milky Way (Lake Titicaca, Bolivia)
24mm f/2.8 Nikkor, Fuji Super G 800 Plus, 90 minutes @ f/5.6
Photo ©1997 by Fred Espenak

SS97/97SS49n
Star Trails Over Titicaca - I
(97SS49w)
Star Trails Over Titicaca - I (97SS49w)

The southern stars gracefully arc over a shore-side cabana at Lake Titicaca. The half hour time exposure demonstrates the rotation of Earth on its axis by revealing the apparent motions of the stars.

Southern Sky & Milky Way (Lake Titicaca, Bolivia)
16mm f/2.8 Nikkor, Fuji Super G 800 Plus, 30 minutes @ f/2.8
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Photo ©1997 by Fred Espenak

SS97/97SS50n
Star Trails Over Titicaca - II
(97SS50w)
Star Trails Over Titicaca - II (97SS50w)

The southern stars gracefully arc over a shore-side cabana at Lake Titicaca. The one hour time exposure demonstrates the rotation of Earth on its axis by revealing the apparent motions of the stars.

Southern Sky & Milky Way (Lake Titicaca, Bolivia)
16mm f/2.8 Nikkor, Fuji Super G 800 Plus, 65 minutes @ f/2.8
Photo ©1997 by Fred Espenak

SS97/97SS63n
Huts and Ra II
(97SS63w)
Huts and Ra II (97SS63w)

A long time exposure reveals the motion of the stars against a foreground of reel huts and a scale model of Thor Heyerdal's Ra II.

Southern Sky & Milky Way (Lake Titicaca, Bolivia)
24mm f/2.8 Nikkor, Fuji Super G 800 Plus, 105 minutes @ f/5.6
Photo ©1997 by Fred Espenak

SS97/97SS36n
Star Trails
Over Cabana
(97SS36w)
Star Trails Over Cabana (97SS36w)

The southern stars gracefully arc over a shore-side cabana at Lake Titicaca. The two hour time exposure demonstrates the rotation of Earth on its axis by revealing the apparent motions of the stars.

Southern Sky & Milky Way (Lake Titicaca, Bolivia)
24mm f/2,8 Nikkor, Fuji Super G 800 Plus, 2 hours @ f/5.6
Photo ©1997 by Fred Espenak

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All photographs are copyright by Fred Espenak.
All images are available as high resolution files (6 Megapixels or 18 Mbytes) suitble for publication.
Please contact Espenak ( MrEclipse) for all uses of these images
in print, web, video, CD and all other media.

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