Draco, Lyra, Ursa Minor

This (Fin@l) image is a composite of over 50photographs out of some 140photos of 30seconds exposure each, here they were taken continuously for over an hour.

The rotation of the earth makes the stars look like they are moving around the North South Axis of earth's rotation.

As a result the stars make small trails in each successive photograph (which if stacked will look like the last image Star Trails), to account for earth's rotation, each successive photo has to be moved a fixed amount Up-Down(Y) and Left-Right(X) and Also Rotate (R)

For Post-Processing, the RAW(CR2) files were "Registered and Stacked" i.e. each and every star is located (X,Y co-ordinates) with precise brightness and size(in pixels) and the best 80% photos were used make the Semi-Final Image as a 32Bit (High Dynamic Range HDR)Tiff file, note the 32bits part, so the image will look too darkly n flatish on regular LCD/CRT monitors, I used Photoshop to develope the 32bit HDR image as a high Contrast image, which I then "Level" and adjust the colour-Contrast (Curves)

This photograph is a stack of all the photographs about 140, as they came from the camera, or this is how the photograph will look if you take one photograph over 60mins facing the Northern Sky.

Lyra

Vega is theStandard to measure all other stars. It is the ZERO of the Magnitude scale used in astronomy.

For the Portrait, I used the IAU Constellation map. I scaled and placed it ober the Photograph, amazing to see all Stars fit the map. The map highliights only the Visible to naked eye, stars. But a standard DSLR is far more sensitive, and after Subtracting all types of Noise in the image, all the non-black pixels are stars or relatives.