>an array of relatively large sensors with very high exposure looking at information from something very far away, and combining that data with a 'brightness' s

>an array of relatively large sensors with very high exposure looking at information from something very far away, and combining that data with a 'brightness' scale, instead of a 'colour' scale I like the sound of that far more than photograph, but I will relent, not worth getting into a slap fight over what constitutes a photograph...face palm