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whitedragon101

macrumors 65816
Original poster
Sep 11, 2008
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These are a couple of long exposure star images. As you can see the dots have become trails and the milky way has become a smear.
Anyone know how I can compress these star trails (and milky way) back to dots?

(ignore weird cross symbols the image links do work)


ch2sTw

https://ibb.co/ch2sTw
dndrow

https://ibb.co/dndrow
 

kenoh

macrumors 604
Jul 18, 2008
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Glasgow, UK
Sorry to say but think you are stuck with go take them again with a shorter shutter speed.

I know there are motion blur fixing products out there but not aware of any star trail reducers. I may be wrong and really not trying to be annoying, but you need to go back and get them right in camera.

Also, not clicking the links as dont recognise the shortened urls provider so I havent looked at the images.

There is a way to do something with photoshop but not sure how effective it is. Try googling "startrail removal photoshop" for a few tutorials.
 
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