Advice for first time doing star trails.

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Basically I'm after a few tips for my first time with light trails. How do I make sure I capture all the stars (even the tiny not so bright ones) with intense trails? I've seen comments on here about the trails needing to be more "intense" on some pictures, what settings on the camera actually effect this? Also could someone give me some pointers towards the settings that would be best to start out with so I have a general idea before I head out tonight.

I understand it's best to take multiple exposures instead of one long one, but if I was to do a bit of light painting for some foreground interest would I have to do it once or on every exposure? I have never stacked multiple shots on photoshop so I don't know how it works.

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These always fascinate me and is something I want to try. A view point that puts the north star on top of something such as a chimney stack or church spire etc is what I would be looking for.
 
Hi Paul, if you check out my signature there is a link my guide to star trails in the tutorials section where I'm sure all of your questions are addressed however in case it isn't if you do light painting you only need to do this for a single frame for the area you wish to light obviously if you've a large scene you can do different things in different sections over many exposures that then get merged together
 
Thanks everyone. Hopefully the skies will clear tonight for a bit of practice.
 
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