“My God! It’s full of stars”
David Bowman – 2001:A Space Odyssey
Day and night
Ribblehead Viaduct at 4:30pm in September
This picture was one of over 1,700 taken as part of a "Holy grail" time lapse (day to night and back to day)
Ribblehead Viaduct at 11pm in September
This picture was taken as part of the same "holy grail" time lapse 6.5 hours later than the one on the left
deep sky
Nebulae, star clusters and galaxies — normally invisible to the naked eye brought to life in amazing colour by long exposure photography with a motorised tracking equatorial mount, telescope, specialised cooled cameras and LRGB and narrow band filters
star trails
These can be taken with standard off the shelf cameras and a sturdy tripod, nightscapes can be single shot exposures while the star trails involve stacking multiple images and using some simple software to create animations
time lapse photography
Using standard off the shelf cameras, a tripod, intervalometer and occasionally a camera slider the apparent motion of the night sky can be easily seen
nightscapes
During a typical all night trip shooting time lapse sequences I will probably shoot up to 3,000 images (winter months) with the two cameras that I use. Out of all these images there are usually some that are worth keeping for a standalone single exposure or I will do a specific single shot of an item of interest and sometimes stand with my headtorch on to do a selfie
