Star Trails Photo Gallery

Circumpolar Star Trails Over Bolivia
(97SS51w)

The southern stars gracefully arc over a shore-side cabana at Lake Titicaca. The two hour time exposure demonstrates the rotation of Earth on its axis by revealing the apparent motions of the stars.

Southern Sky & Milky Way (Lake Titicaca, Bolivia)
16mm f/2.8 Nikkor, Fuji Super G 800 Plus, 2 hours @ f/4
Photo ©1997 by Fred Espenak

Mud Huts and Star Trails
(97SS62w)

Circumpolar star trails mark the south celestial pole as they circle above native Bolivian mud huts on the shore of Lake Titicaca.

Southern Sky & Milky Way (Lake Titicaca, Bolivia)
24mm f/2.8 Nikkor, Fuji Super G 800 Plus, 90 minutes @ f/5.6
Photo ©1997 by Fred Espenak

Star Trails Over Titicaca - I
(97SS49w)

The southern stars gracefully arc over a shore-side cabana at Lake Titicaca. The half hour time exposure demonstrates the rotation of Earth on its axis by revealing the apparent motions of the stars.

Southern Sky & Milky Way (Lake Titicaca, Bolivia)
16mm f/2.8 Nikkor, Fuji Super G 800 Plus, 30 minutes @ f/2.8
Photo ©1997 by Fred Espenak

Star Trails Over Titicaca - II
(97SS50w)

The southern stars gracefully arc over a shore-side cabana at Lake Titicaca. The one hour time exposure demonstrates the rotation of Earth on its axis by revealing the apparent motions of the stars.

Southern Sky & Milky Way (Lake Titicaca, Bolivia)
16mm f/2.8 Nikkor, Fuji Super G 800 Plus, 65 minutes @ f/2.8
Photo ©1997 by Fred Espenak

Huts and Ra II
(97SS63w)

A long time exposure reveals the motion of the stars against a foreground of reel huts and a scale model of Thor Heyerdal's Ra II.

Southern Sky & Milky Way (Lake Titicaca, Bolivia)
24mm f/2.8 Nikkor, Fuji Super G 800 Plus, 105 minutes @ f/5.6
Photo ©1997 by Fred Espenak

Star Trails
Over Cabana
(97SS36w)

The southern stars gracefully arc over a shore-side cabana at Lake Titicaca. The two hour time exposure demonstrates the rotation of Earth on its axis by revealing the apparent motions of the stars.

Southern Sky & Milky Way (Lake Titicaca, Bolivia)
24mm f/2,8 Nikkor, Fuji Super G 800 Plus, 2 hours @ f/5.6
Photo ©1997 by Fred Espenak