Ecliptic Camera
night · 2026-08-24
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IMX708 Wide (v3w)
1How dark the night was
263 frames, 21:12 to 04:57 (London time). Darkest sky 3.33 bits.
259 / 263
frames in star trails / captured
3.33
darkest sky, bits
10678
bad pixels
eclipticam v3w · night of 24 Aug 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 24 Aug 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-res3The whole night in one frame
eclipticam v3w · night of 24 Aug 2026
The brightest value each pixel reached all night: every star draws its trail across the night.