Ecliptic Camera
night · 2026-09-30
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IMX708 Wide (v3w)
The deep sky
eclipticam v3w · night of 30 Sep 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
622 frames, 19:42 to 06:02 (London time). Darkest sky 3.52 stops above black.
277 / 622
frames in star trails / captured
3.52
darkest sky, stops above black
228
bad pixels
eclipticam v3w · night of 30 Sep 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 30 Sep 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 30 Sep 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 30 Sep 2026
The brightest value each pixel reached all night: every star draws its trail across the night.