Hi all.

I thought I would try my hand at a little animation of the stars moving about in the south.

I took several pics with the DSLR on a fixed tripod of 30 seconds, taking one every 5 minutes or so.

The effect is simple, but effective. I am inspired now to go all the way and image the rotation over a whole night. One to the South, one to the east or west and one to the north.

I thought it may serve best on my Drift alignment page as a bit of a visual aid to new astronomers.

So here it is. http://www.asignobservatory.com/driftalignment.aspx

Have a look about a third of the way down the page for the movie.

Like I said, improvements are only a matter of a few clear nights away!

Baz.

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Hi Baz, The tutorial was very informative and the presentation were simply great your animation came out really good also. Be looking forward on your next project. Clear Skies

Great little tutorial. Have you listed it in the obssserving and equipment section?

Kind regards
Matt

Hi Baz.
Great job on your site. Very nice tutorial and the animation was pretty good. Great work going on here. Paul