> "Each telescope has different patterns" This one's extra-special! The pattern is multiple + shapes, rotated and superimposed on top of each other. And they'r

> "Each telescope has different patterns" This one's extra-special! The pattern is multiple + shapes, rotated and superimposed on top of each other. And they're different colors! That's this telescope's signature scanning algorithm—I don't know what that is, but, it's evident it takes multiple exposures, in different color filters, with the image plane rotated differently relative to the CCD plane in each exposure. I assume there's some kind of signal processing rationale behind that choice. edit: Here's one of the bright stars, I think it's HD 107428: https://i.ibb.co/HTmP0rqn/diffraction.webp https://i.ibb.co/HTmP0rqn/diffraction.webp This one has asteroid streaks surrounding it (it's a toggle in one of the hidden menus), which gives a strong clue about the timing of the multiple exposures. The asteroids are going in a straight line at a constant speed—the spacing and colors of the dots shows what the exposure sequence was. I think this quote explains the reason they want to rotate the camera: > "The ranking criteria also ensure that the visits to each field are widely distributed in position angle on the sky and rotation angle of the camera in order to minimize systematic effects in galaxy shape determination." https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2366 https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2366 ("LSST [Vera Rubin]: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products")