{"id":680,"date":"2011-09-02T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeisaak.com\/blog\/?p=680"},"modified":"2013-04-03T04:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T04:53:00","slug":"star-trails-lake-rotoiti-and-wharariki-beach-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"Star Trails &#8211; Wharariki Beach, New Zealand."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This star trail photo was taken after our holiday week in Nelson was over, as we continued our exploration of the South Island. We had explored Wharariki Beach all day and I spent some time there capturing sunset. On our way back to the Holiday Park, I noticed this tree that was well lit by the park office lights directly behind me. Having been shown the location of the Southern Cross, I knew what angle I could set this up so that the stars &#8220;rotated&#8221; around the tree. If I remember correctly, this photo shoot was slightly over 2 hours.\u00a0\u00a0I stacked the images in a program appropriately called &#8220;Startrails&#8221;. You can check it out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrails.de\/html\/software.html\">here<\/a>, and it is a free download.<\/p>\n<p>View this with the lights down low!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1398\" style=\"width: 528px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1398\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1398\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1398\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1398 \" title=\"whariki-tree-startrails\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/whariki-tree-startrails-740x491.jpg\" width=\"518\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/whariki-tree-startrails-740x491.jpg 740w, http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/whariki-tree-startrails-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/whariki-tree-startrails-200x132.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/whariki-tree-startrails.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cWharariki Holiday Park Star Trails\u201d, Wharariki Beach, New Zealand.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Buy the print <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/photo\/image-506a0f2689fe4\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This star trail photo was taken after our holiday week in Nelson was over, as we continued our exploration of the South Island. We had explored Wharariki Beach all day and I spent some time there capturing sunset. On our way back to the Holiday Park, I noticed this tree that was well lit by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[48,142,71,214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}