5D mark III not recording picture after long exposure

I've been trying to do star trail pictures the last few days. Every time I do, the batteries are almost dead by the time I turn it off, which isn't surprising, but there's no picture. I have a battery grip so I should have twice as much battery power as just one battery. Is there just not enough battery to record a picture after 6+ hours? I don't thing that's it because I can still press the playback button to look at the pictures to see there's no new picture. Why is this happening

Ahh... star trails aren't made in a single exposure. If you do that, the sky will almost certainly wash out and become mud due to light pollution.
It's normally a LOT of 30 second exposures that you merge together.
Here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ypRbPzoPM
Incidentally, Canon makes an AC adapter ACK-E6 which will let the camera run off AC power (if you have AC power available where you plan to shoot.). This is how I run my 60Da (which takes the same adapter as the 5D III) when doing astro-photography (which typically means the camera is taking frames for hours and hours and would normally just kill the batteries.
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