Shuksan Star Trails is a photograph by Alexis Birkill which was uploaded on February 12th, 2013.
Shuksan Star Trails
Star trails over Mount Shuksan in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, photographed in January 2013. The foreground light in this photograph... more
Title
Shuksan Star Trails
Artist
Alexis Birkill
Medium
Photograph
Description
Star trails over Mount Shuksan in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, photographed in January 2013. The foreground light in this photograph came entirely from the stars (and Jupiter, the brightest streak in the top-right of the image).
Because the camera was pointed at approximately 90 degrees from Polaris, the stars in the centre of the image appear to streak in a straight line, with those above and below curving up and down. Also, the Milky Way has been captured in this photo, clearly visible as a brighter vertical stripe just to the left of the middle of the photo.
Uploaded
February 12th, 2013