Starship Asterisk*

The night sky turns. This exposure was time lapse and the camera took that turning into account. Thus from the perspective of the camera, the sky stayed perfectly still, but the ground turned... causing ground lights to move but sky lights to be perfectly still. Ahh, yes, I see that now, and it mus...

I am having a problem with the McNaught image from New Zealand ( http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070212.html ). As an amatuer astronomer, and a better photographer, I can not resolve how this image was taken. The ground and background lights appear to be the result of camera shake. More than that...