So I have been thinking of doing this for a while. I made a small Arduino program that would press F10 every few seconds (five in this case) to produce a timelapse. Ended up with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2vCikB7MkY&feature=youtu.be
However notice shadow and galaxy background move smoothly, but the planet I am orbiting seems to 'jump'. Limits of the game engine or error?
So this is 5 seconds per frame and played back at 25FPS