About the Image(s)

This past September, my wife and I were vacationing on Mt. Desert Island in Maine (home of Acadia National Park) and stayed in a rental that was on a spit of land that jutted into Bass Harbor (an earlier submission was of the Bass Harbor Light Station). One night, I set up my Nikon Z8 camera with a 28-400mm lens set at 28mm, and used the internal intervalometer to take 50 photos (4 min duration, iso 800, f/4.5) starting around 11 pm with the camera pointing to the north end of the Harbor. I uploaded the photos into LR classic and discovered (to my surprised eyes) that there had been an aurora that night over the mts in the distance. I uploaded the images into PS, and combined them to get star trails. After looking at the final version, I decided that the star trails were too dense so used a subset of the total images (n = ?) where the aurora was more prominent, eliminated any airplane or meteor tracks, cropped to eliminate a very bright light on the right, and replaced the area below the mts where the very blurry boats with the same area from a single image with less blur. Included is the original star trails composite from the 50 photos.