Ecliptic Camera
night · 2026-06-19
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IMX708 Wide (v3w)
The deep sky
eclipticam v3w · night of 19 Jun 2026
Each 10 minute window's frames registered on the drifting stars and averaged, then the static scene's background removed: the faintest stars on a clean dark sky. · full-res1How dark the night was
188 frames, 00:05 to 03:11 (London time). Darkest sky 4.33 bits.
154 / 188
frames in star trails / captured
4.33
darkest sky, bits
12139
bad pixels
eclipticam v3w · night of 19 Jun 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
eclipticam v3w · night of 19 Jun 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-res3Stars held still
eclipticam v3w · night of 19 Jun 2026
Each 10 minute window undistorted and shifted with the sky's drift, so the 60 s streaks stack into one sharp, bright streak. · full-res4The whole night in one frame
eclipticam v3w · night of 19 Jun 2026
The brightest value each pixel reached all night: every star draws its trail across the night.OV5647 (v1)
1How dark the night was
188 frames, 00:05 to 03:11 (London time). Darkest sky 4.33 bits.
154 / 188
frames in star trails / captured
4.33
darkest sky, bits
8593
bad pixels
eclipticam v1 · night of 19 Jun 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
eclipticam v1 · night of 19 Jun 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.3What the camera saw, in grey
eclipticam v1 · night of 19 Jun 2026
The same windows in greyscale (the science view).4The whole night in one frame
eclipticam v1 · night of 19 Jun 2026
The brightest value each pixel reached all night: every star draws its trail across the night.