Startrail around polarstar

The sky is clear and I'm on holliday. So what do you at evening? Yes, watching the sky and more specific taking some pictures of Iridium flares and trying out making a startrail.
Picture below is build up from 62 pictures each 30s exposure time, ISO 100 with Nikon D60 18mm with 30s between each photo. The first picture is edited using CS4 and "lighten".
The second picture is edited using the software Startrails - see Startrails.de website.
With a full moon and some minor clouds conditions were not optimal but as a first try out...

Edited with CS4 - 62 pictures Nikon D60 30s ISO100 18mm

Edited with Startrails.de - 62 pictures Nikon D60 30s ISO100 18mm

Iridium 41 flare

Very bright (Mag -7.0) Iridium 41 flare taken on July 24th with Nikon D60 in Raw format and edited using CS4.

Iridium Flare

Finally I was able to take a picture of a Iridium flare. Magnitude of -4.0 from Iridium 65 taken by Nikon D60 for 30s.

Evening sky with red clouds

The evening sky colored red!

Article from VVS on Solargraphy

Inserted are the articles from Jef De Wit publised in Heelal (VVS) oktober 2012

Article from Urania on Solargraphy

Article from Jef De Wit from Urania volume 24 / number 4 sept 2012

My First Solargraph

Today, after six months I opened the solargraph. The can was still intact and the photopaper was well preserved. The paper was humid and still fixed against the wall of the can. Looking at the picture you will see some interesting aspects. In the front (at the bottom of the picture) you see my garden with the trapoline in the middle and the trees some further.

Also the top of the sunpaths is not captured on the picture. On the inverted pictures the many black band show the poor spring without "sun".

Original (not inverted)

Original Inverted by Photoshop CS4

Edited  colors intesified by Photoshop CS4

Edited Black/White Photoshop CS4