Stars Trail over Ragusa.

In trying times, stars still trail in the night . Taken on March 14, this night skyscape was made by combining 230 exposures each 15 seconds long to follow the stars' circular paths. The camera was fixed to a tripod on an isolated terrace near the center of Ragusa, Italy, on the island of Sicily. But the night sky was shared around the rotating planet . A friend to celestial navigators and astrophotographers alike Polaris, the north star , makes the short bright trail near the center of the concentric celestial arcs .