My knowledge of astronomy or photography literally is nada, barely knowing a thing of them, but when I saw a page of a magazine, which is about space or night sky or stargazing, that I couldn’t remember. I had no interest in the magazine, I was just skimming over, turning page after page, wasn’t even reading anything.

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But I stopped at a full-paged picture, colorful rings at night sky, the star trail. For some reason that I didn’t understand, I just looked at it for several seconds, then I thought ‘that is beautiful.’

Frankly, I have never captured a picture like that and I can’t even name a star, well, I can actually, our Sun. Nonetheless, that picture had really got me, I went on searching for more pictures and animated ones. It’s amazing how they could be captured.

I was so stunned by those beautiful captures, as one uses terminal a lot, needless to say, I tried to find one program could draw some little magic in terminal window, but I just couldn’t find any. So, I started ring.c as a test run, because I had never used ncurses from scratch. After that I was confident that I could write one.

But, it got a little out of hand, because I initially only planned on drawing perfect rings. Simple as that, but it ended up doing more than that.

So, here it is, the startrail.c.