astrophotography Fuel Trail Closeup

I've only seen this once, and I hadn't thought of trying to image such a thing. This Scan is much better than the normal perspective one. What sort of exposure did you use? -rjw

i have no idea, honestly. as soon as i saw this, i rushed in the house (fortunately, i had brought camera and lenses and tripod to a family bbq we were visiting cousins), set up outside in the middle of road, and shot frame after frame after frame, trying all sorts of aperture/speed combos, on 50 and 200mm lenses. i think i blew thru an entire roll's worth and ended up with 2 decent shots. My fav is this, the closeup, but i included the wider view to show what it looked like (the real life version was just gorgeous, esp thru binoculars).