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Robert did you intentionally over-expose the top image?
It was probably the extra exposure that allowed you to capture the aurora.
Not really JK, it was pretty well dark when I took that but the effect of the 85% moon, reflections and the fact I was trying to bring the pier into prominence, having taken a few trial exposure was what I plumped for. Once chosen I had to stick with it. I was literally groping in the dark, at each venue I reduced the exposure. The great benefit of using NEF's is it gives me much more latitude while still retaining decent quality.
The first exposure I made of the church it looked like bright sunlight! I'm not used to having usable ISO1600 at my fingertips!
The image quality of the church isn't the best but I am quite relaxed about that, it helps to show it wasn't taken in daylight and gives it a rugged appearance, to me it adds character. The stars are sharp enough, If I really wanted I could reduce the number of church images stacked by masking the church from the sky, I am sure its due to very slight movement of the tripod or the camera during the 30 minutes I made the exposures for.
Whoops! I hadn't added the star track image of the church! I need a responsible adult to keep an eye on me...
Point of interest, you can see time on the sundial, in this case, moondial, it's about right.
This image is layered with 48 images taken at 34 second intervals using the D300s and Nikkor 18-105 VR.
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Robert.