[fitzwatermellow]

Nice way to start the day ;) Can't someone send this guy a box of gently used CCDs and some wideband lenses already or maybe an old copy of labview...

Oh and Artem, if you happen to see this, can you try getting out of the city on a cloudless night and taking a long exposure of the night sky? Thanks for your hard work and inspiring us all!

[Artlav]

Artem here, that's a strange idea. Right now the sensor got a fixed gain, and so exposure time is meaningless. It won't be too hard to add, but what sort of image would there be, with the frame time of many hours, line by line as the planet rotates? Sounds curious enough to try. :) I anticipate a distorted starfield - every star as a bright point, but all of them shifted in position.

[StavrosK]

Just star trails, probably:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Star_tra...

[knowaveragejoe]

Yes, but distorted because of the way the sensor is also moving.

[StavrosK]

Ah, interesting. They'll be discontinuous dots along that line, true.