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I finally figured out why my star trails kept looking like dotted lines

I was out near Flagstaff trying to get a good shot of the Milky Way with my old DSLR. For months, my long exposure shots had these weird gaps in the trails. A friend looked at my camera settings and asked why my intervalometer was set to a 2-second delay between shots. I had no idea that delay was creating the breaks. I changed it to shoot continuously and the next 30-minute stack gave me one smooth, clean arc. Has anyone else messed up their stacking because of a simple timer setting?
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lisa839
lisa83916d ago
Wait, didn't @hugo_ellis mean the intervalometer delay is actually the main setting causing the breaks?
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hugo_ellis
hugo_ellis16d ago
That's the classic "hidden setting ruins everything" story.
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