New Wallpaper Friday
I can see a lot of stars where I live. This is completely novel to me having lived in Chicago, Ames, and Des Moines over the past 24 years. Last night I decided to see if the stars were, in fact, bright enough for my camera to pick up. The results were encouraging, if not a little noisy:
I spent about fifteen minutes outside (it was cold!) fiddling with the manual settings on my camera. I was using a tripod and a 30″ shutter speed, but I wasn’t having much luck until I turned up the ISO to 400 and messed with the apeture…I forget in which direction. That got me some stars, but also a lot of noise in the image. I’m going to spend the next few nights fiddling with settings until I get something clear. If I can keep the long shutter speeds with less noise, some fairly sweet pictures might result. Even in this picture, you can see movement trails. I thought at first it was jitter on the tripod, but when I thought about it, the trails line up with the movement of the Earth. Now that is cool 
