Short Trails around the North Pole

I took this last night from my back yard. I meant for the trails to be significantly longer, but my camera ran out of batteries. Still I think it is a very nice picture.

Tonight I plan on trying again to make longer trails. This one only has a combined exposure length of 7.5 minutes and I want to get an hour or so.

Once again, Polaris is in the photo, this time near the bottom right corner. I think that I will try pretty much the same photo tonight, and then on the weekend go out to some interesting locales to do the same sort of thing.