The skies that will leave you starry-eyed

But in fact photographer Vincent Brady managed to capture these dazzling images using a custom rig of four cameras - each with a fish eye lens attached to give a 360 degree view.

He managed to achieve a series of images that show the paths that the stars etch through the sky above some of the most beautiful landscapes in the United States.

By combining the images taken by the four cameras together he has been able to create pictures that take on an almost surreal quality.

The technique has also enabled him to produce real pictures that bear a striking resemblance to van Gogh's masterpiece Starry Night.

Mr Brady said: 'The Earth is rotating at a steady 1,040mph - I created a custom rig of four cameras with fisheye lenses to capture the entire night-sky in motion.

'I created them on a number of cold, dark, sleepless nights under awe-spiring skies.'

Mr Brady set each camera to take photographs continuously for around three hours with exposures of around one minute.

Each camera produces between 100 and 200 images. Mr Brady then edits the images of from the four separate cameras to combine them into startrails.

He then stitches the resulting four images together to make seamless star trails that he calls Planetary Panoramas.

He hit on the technique in 2012 while experimenting with shooting 360 degree views of landscapes.

He said that he wanted to capture the entire night-sky in motion as the Earth rotates at 1,040mph.

(dailymail.co.uk)