Done using a 30 second exposure, but with half the lens covered for the first 10 seconds, covered the whole lens while moving Bill (the robot), then exposed the other half.
To help explain to whoever it was that asked for validation:
In UFRaw 0.17
white balance and curves
In Gimp 2.6.7
crop
clone out sensor dust spots
re-size
sharpen
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