Astro Camera

night · 2026-10-28
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1How dark the night was

2974 frames of 14.9 s, 17:43 to 06:01 (London time). Darkest sky ≈16.6 mag/arcsec² (6.25 bits), so cloudy.

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frames in star trails / captured
≈16.61
darkest sky, mag/arcsec² (Gaia G)
6.25
darkest sky, bits (59.9 s equiv.)
14.9–16.3 °C
enclosure temp
67–79%
relative humidity
per-frame sky brightness
astrocam v3 · night of 28 Oct 2026
Sky brightness of every frame (log₂: one stop is twice the light). Dusk and dawn are the slopes at each end; cloud shows as a bump. The star-trail stack uses only frames within 30% of the darkest 10 minutes, so twilight and cloud are left out of it. Left out is not thrown away: those frames still go into the videos.

2What the camera saw

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astrocam v3 · night of 28 Oct 2026
The raw night: a 10 minute stack sliding on 1 minute per video frame. Dusk, cloud, aircraft and dawn all show here, five seconds for the whole night. · full-res