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Gazette-Mail photographers choose 2015 favorites

Charleston Gazette-Mail photo by Tom Hindman This is one of my favorite images of the year simply because of the planning that went into making it: star trails of the Perseid meteor shower looking at the New River Gorge Bridge from Fayette Station. To further explain the “stacked image,” my camera was placed on the tripod with an exposure of 30 seconds for each frame it recorded. Over the span of several hours, the camera took another photo every 45 seconds, recording several hundred images. As the night sky moved, stars were recorded in a slightly different location. Aiming the camera toward the north created an image with concentric circular streaks centered on the north celestial pole once the images are literally stacked on top of each other using software to achieve the circular pattern. If you look closely you can see several meteors/shooting stars.
Charleston Gazette-Mail photo by Tom Hindman
This is one of my favorite images of the year simply because of the planning that went into making it: star trails of the Perseid meteor shower looking at the New River Gorge Bridge from Fayette Station. To further explain the “stacked image,” my camera was placed on the tripod with an exposure of 30 seconds for each frame it recorded. Over the span of several hours, the camera took another photo every 45 seconds, recording several hundred images. As the night sky moved, stars were recorded in a slightly different location. Aiming the camera toward the north created an image with concentric circular streaks centered on the north celestial pole once the images are literally stacked on top of each other using software to achieve the circular pattern. If you look closely you can see several meteors/shooting stars.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Each year at this time, we ask the Gazette-Mail’s photographers to come up with their favorite shots from the past 12 months…

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