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Thank you Alyn for all your videos and your awesome shared knowledge that help many of us embrace the night sky photography journey...

Watching for instruction/inspiration in 2024. Miss you, Alyn! Great to hear your voice again. Rest in peace ❤

He doesn’t mention it early on but make sure you take at least two photos of your background or target first. One with it underexposed so that the lighting looks exactly how you want it, and another a bit more exposed to see the details in the target. Then you can mask them over each other and add all the star trail frames

Well timed tutorial Alyn, a lot of us trying timelapses from the garden!

Thanks Alyn for doing this tutorial, you make it look so easy, just need clear skies now, looks like we'll have to wait a few days. So inspiring Alyn.

This has been so useful Alyn! Especially what you did in Photoshop, I didn't know I could easily remove satellites etc with the spot healing tool and you showed me a much easier way swap out the foreground, thank you!

Yet another fact packed, easy to follow tutorial. Inspirational.

Great tutorial! Covers just what I need, I've been going over old files and now I have a new project!

Amazingly stunning! Thank you for this beautiful video!

I just found this tutorial and tried my hand at it last night. Thank you, thank you for a great explanation of the basics of star trails. I'm hooked now!

Your tutorial videos are quick and amazing. I can’t thank you enough. Cheers!

Alan, I really appreciate your tutorials Alan. Concise, no nonsense, spot on. Well done mate

This is great, thank you. It's very straightforward, simple to understand and covers a lot of what I've read in huge articles. Brilliant. I spent an hour out last night getting the shots, let's see what it turns out like....

I found the instructions on the internal intervalometer to be very useful and timely! Heading into my backyard tonight to shoot star trails. Thanks Alyn!

I've spent way too much time googling how to make a composite like you did (switch foreground), and here you show it in so few and simple steps. None of the guides I found mentioned "refine edges" for example. Thank you!

That was great Alyn, easy to follow too. Thanks for sharing 👍

Thanks a lot for going into details for every step of the process!

Although I have been photographing star trails since many years, I did pick up some very useful tips. Shows, that learning never stops. Thanks for a lovely tutorial !

Excellent! As usual I learned something new! Thank you!

Super helpful tut! Thanks for the StarStax plug!

Concise and to the point. Showing each specific step is quite helpful.

Thanks for the tips Alyn. Some great advice

excellent informative video Alyn, thank you very much for sharing!

You make it look so easy. Amazing!!

Thanks Alyn, excellent tutorial, more relevant info than most and some good tips. Looking forward to your premium tutorial.

Really helpful. Enjoyed it immensely. Looking forward to trying it out.

Great info as always. Thanks Alyn !

Excellent video Alyn . Thank you.

Was waiting for a video like this. Been taking loads of pictures but a totally new to photography and editing and had no idea where to start. Thanks.

Really good tutorial. Thank you. I have wanted to try shooting star trails for ages - I can’t wait to try this out.

Nice one Alyn.... something new for me to try. Thanks again.

Super interesting ! Now I know how to blend with photoshop. There are a lot of tutorials about it but yours is much easier to understand. Thanks!

Your tutorials are super, thanks Alyn. I am on my way now. The lessons I needed.

Excellent Tutorial! Thank you!

Best star trail tutorial I’ve watched !! Thanks !!

That's a great tip about saving as a tiff in StarStax Alyn thanks.

Brilliant , a nice and easy tutorial to follow

You are an inspiration, love your work !

Alan, thank you for very detail Star Trail Photo tutuorial!

awesome content of course very instructive as your tutorials are mate clear skies always mate

This is so good!! Thank you so much! Hopefully going out this winter to get some shots!!

Great tutorial! Thanks.😀

Really great video... I had been wanting to try this for a while now so the timing and content are great! thanks Alyn :-)

Melhor canal de astrofotografia! Abraço aqui do brasil 🇧🇷

That's so good many many thanks for sharing brilliant 👌👌👌

Thanks Alyn, great video, will give this a try, been looking for a video about star trails.

Thanks - love the advice/lesson on how to do this properly

Great timing , am planning on trying some trails tonight !

Thanks for the PS, LR and StarStaX tips. I might finally try using more than one layer in my workflow.

Very helpful! Thanks Alyn!

Very nicely demonstrated and explained Alyn, great work as usual.

Excellent Job!!! I actually didn't know about that star trail program...

Very useful .. Thank you Alyn .

Subscribed. Absolutely brilliant!

I just want to say thank you for this video. I never leave comments but I created my first star trail and it is SO cool!

great video Alyn, very usefu.

Just awesome! Very easy to understand!

Brilliant video! I am so excited to begin this journey into photographing the night sky! Thank you for providing inspiration during this stressful time!

Awesome !.. Thank you Alyn...

I am new to star trails photography and this looks like an excellent introduction. Thank you very much.

Can't wait to try this........ Tanks, Alyn

Thanks Alyn, a few tips and tricks to help me improve from my first attempts.

Wow! Thank you for an actually useful tutorial!

That .tiff save option is so crucial and I didn't know about it! Great tutorial man, love your pacing.

Fantastic tutorial! I'm inspired now....

I live in a heavily light polluted city and usually only get to see the brightest stars but over the course of the lockdowns the skies have cleared up due to less pollution and i can see sooo many other stars which i would never get to see. I've been shooting pics of the skies just because these skies may never return again. Awesome video keep it up 🤘🏻 and Clear Skies!

It's a great tutorial, thank you for making it! I had an issue with weird patterns in my star trail shots and your remark about turning off lens correction turned out to be the issue. Cheers mate!

This is very helpful. Thanks Alyn

A typical Alyn: nice, easy understandable and straight to the point. Exactly the way I like it! Cheers mate 😎

Thanks a lot, Alyn. This helped a lot to clean up my star trail image. Very much appreciated.

Thanks for the tutorial. Really enjoyed it as a newbie to astrophotography!

The tip for manual option to remove chromatic aberration was well worth watching the video! Very well put together. I believe star trails photography is easier than deep sky objects where you take a lot of stills, dark framse, light frames and flat frames etc..

Thanks Alan, The tutorial was very helpful for a beginner in star trails.

Really good information ,looking forward to watching some more of your Vlogs etc Thank you

This one's really helpful! Gonna try it soon.

Another excellent video as usual thank you

Useful tips 👍 Re-watching this to brush up on my star trail editing 🙂

Great Tutorial Alun, lets see what the sky in Maesteg gives me.

Thank you Alyn! Though I thought to be a some-way mature astro photographer, I always find something new and interesting in you videos

Excellent Alyn had a go last week, you have now helped to clarify a few things especially on the editing side, I now know what Tiff files are lol

that was really helpful. detailed video. thank you

Awesome job, again. Thanks man!

Thank you so much for the tutorial! Thank you for giving me clarity now lets see if i can do this star trail now its a dream shot of mine

I found the video extremely useful. Thanks for sharing

it is very use full thanks Alyn

Excellent video. Very interesting indeed

Really enjoyed your two videos on star trails and stacking. Thank you....signed up for training courses via your link - I hope they keep sponsoring your work

Great vid, very helpful.

Thanks, Alyn. Going out to try tomorrow night in Kanab, UT / Arizona state border area. Thanks for the 500 rule clarification for crop sensor. Much appreciated.

Very helpful. Took a million pictures trying to capture some Lyrids Meteors. Your tutorial will help with the startrail work.

Thanks for sharing bro, great and easy to understand tutorial for a beginner like me.

I'm here because of the PhotoPils stream. Subscribed and hit notifications. Great tutorial Alyn!

Thanks for the tutorial Alyn. Learning a lot from you and Trevor Jones of Astrobackyard.

Alyn, thanks for your wonderful video. Great explanation and very good details too, i am new to the astronomy photography, so much great and interesting technique to learn. I really appreciate your honesty and did watch your video conference with Rafael great info too and was very informative. Looking forward to see your new book and new Star Glow filter... keep the good work you are inspiring people to get out in their backyard and shoot some star trail. Thanks, Michel from Canada

Good stuff Alyn!

Super helpful! Thanks

Excellent. Really useful. I've made notes and will report back once I've put these tips into practice on a clear night

I am planning a trip and want to photograph the night sky. Your video will help a lot when I'm standing in the cold north. Thanks for being so generous with your expertise.

Well explained Alyn!

Thank for a great tutorial!.