Photographing star trails with a single long exposure is not common. One long exposure will make your sensor hot enough to introduce many hot and cold pixels in the image (the tiny red and blue dots).

This opens up a log of possibilities for long-exposure photography, and [Jippo] has found the best use so far: long exposure astrophotography for capturing meteors, satellites, and star trails.

This photo shows Earth, our home planet ... requiring the stacking of many images to get the desire result. "Star trail from ...

American astronaut Don Pettit has shared some striking footage captured from the ISS showing star trails and city lights.

Star trail photography documents the movement of the stars over a certain period. As the stars appear to move from east to west (due to Earth’s rotation), a long-exposure photograph of them will ...