An old, abandoned north coast lookout post with star trails, 2006. This is a revised scan done on a Creo IQSmart2 film scanner. Although it looks a million times better than our original scan, this is certainly not our best star trail picture. Unfortunately, as our other star trail pictures were not taken in Trinidad, they do not appear on this website. Star trail pictures require very long exposures best done during a new moon. Old, mechanical film cameras do well at such photography as digital camera batteries die after about 2 hours with the shutter open. Of course, standing around at night to take sky pictures is also a good way to get killed, hence the reason we only have 1 star trail picture from crime-infested Trinidad. In this picture we did not light-paint the building properly as we were afraid that our flashlight would attract unwelcome attention. The stars appear to rotate (it's the earth that really rotates, not the stars, duh!) about the North Star (Polaris), just out of the picture on the right. Polaris exists approximately 10 degrees above the northern horizon in Trinidad and thus is usually obscured by the Northern Range. This exposure was done on an 8x10 large format camera using Kodak Ektachrome film and was 6 hours long.