strongspan style="font-family:times new roman,serif;"Title:/span/strongspan style="font-family:times new roman,serif;" Backyard Observatory/spanbr/strongspan style="font-family:times new roman,serif;"Time:/span/strongspan style="font-family:times new roman,serif;" May/06/2022/spanbr/strongspan style="font-family:times new roman,serif;"Location:/span/strongspan style="font-family:times new roman,serif;" Richmond Hill, ON/spanbr/strongspan style="font-family:times new roman,serif;"Equipment Used:/span/strongspan style="font-family:times new roman,serif;" Sony a7R III amp; Sigma 28 ndash; 70mm/spanbr/strongspan style="font-family:times new roman,serif;"Camera Settings:/span/strongspan style="font-family:times new roman,serif;" 15x 30s fnof;/5 ISO 400 @ 28mm/spanbr/strongspan style="font-family:times new roman,serif;"Planning, Problems amp; Commentary: /span/strongemspan style="font-family:times new roman,serif;"Backyard Observatory/span/emspan style="font-family:times new roman,serif;" was inspired by an idea Irsquo;ve had to take images that can juxtapose astronomy with a more human presence. My plan was to take it from inside the house to give the viewer the sense of actually being there. It is an idea that I continue to explore today. A problem I noticed after the image was processed (using StarStaX Software) was that the trails are not smooth lines, but appear as dashes. I did not realize how much the earth rotates even in the couple of seconds interval between exposures! One possible solution Irsquo;d like to test is taking much longer exposure, and shorter intervals between them, to minimize the gaps in the trails. There may also be a software-based solution that could be explored./span