{"id":1070,"date":"2026-08-30T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/twenty-minutes-of-rotation\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T01:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:10:00","slug":"twenty-minutes-of-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/twenty-minutes-of-rotation\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Minutes of Rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Star trails are arithmetic. Find the pole, point at it, and let the planet do the composition. The only creative decision left is what you put underneath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forty frames at thirty seconds each, stacked. Stacking beats one twenty-minute exposure because a single frame that long will cook the sensor and any passing aircraft ruins the whole thing rather than one-fortieth of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rock was lit by a half moon behind me. No torches, no light painting \u2014 moonlight is a big soft source and it is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star trails are just arithmetic: find the pole, point at it, and let the planet do the composition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[244,223,245],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-after-dark","tag-astrophotography","tag-long-exposure","tag-stacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}