Gear and settings
Camera: Nikon D3500
Lens: Tokina 11-16 mm f/2.8 at 11 mm. Cropped significantly, this was initially a part of a larger image but was ruined due to clouds. The pink area is where the clouds were moving through.
Intervalometer: qDSLR dashboard
Mount was just a Gorillapod 3K.
Settings: 100 images taken each at ISO1600, f/3.2 and 15 sec exposure time
Processing
Initial images tweaked in Camera RAW (didn't save the settings, sorry)
All images stacked together with StarStaX gap filling and comet mode
Further processed in Lightroom with these settings https://pastebin.com/ReWJgD7D (import as preset)
What's the line through Polaris?
This is a plane passing by, this was 100% pure luck and unplanned. Here you can see the full uncropped frame of the plane passing through.
