Phone Astrophotography

[gilded relic]

Guys one question I just used masking on the Saturn can you tell me which one's better?

?

[lunar elm]

With phone????

[gilded relic]

Yes

[lunar elm]

Nah, you crossed the line here

[gilded relic]

S 21 ultra

[lunar elm]

That’s too good

Back to your question, I’d say the top one is better

[gilded relic]

Actually I used lightroom

Thanks

[lunar elm]

That’s crazy how you do that

Mobile lightroom?

[gilded relic]

Both

Laptop and mobile

[lunar elm]

Huh? I used only laptop for this shot

And it was a one shot frame lol

And this one is with all the tools I use now; nightcap for vid, pipp, autostakkert!3, registax and Lightroom thx to Ben is jamin’

What other tools do you use for your pictures?

[gilded relic]

Nice shot

You should be using PIPP first

Take a vedio

[lunar elm]

Yeah I started doing that

Here’s 100% my shot from start to finish

A bit dark but okay

[gilded relic]

1-Stabilize it with PIPP 2- use Autostakkert to stack it 3- use Registax

3- use Registax 4- now for last step use lightroom

[lunar elm]

I do all of that

[gilded relic]

Also the lightroom?

[lunar elm]

How big is your scope?

[lunar elm]

Yep

[gilded relic]

Okay

[lunar elm]

That’s prob the issue I’m having here, I digitally zooming in

[gilded relic]

Actually what telescope are you using?

Mine is a 150mm Newtonian

[lunar elm]

The Orion star blast 4.5, 114mm aperture and 450mm long tube, f/4

It’s a reflector

[gilded relic]

It's okay

But have you checked your front vedio size

[lunar elm]

I shoot in nightcap but I haven’t tried iPhone app, I think I’ll try that soon

[lunar elm]

I rather not mess in there because i don’t want to lose to much space in my phone either

[gilded relic]

Normally it's somewhere near the lowest on the phones for the smoothest performance you shall put it on higher settings

Yes you right

But It'll work

[lunar elm]

I shot in 1080 HD I think

[rough chasm]

Hi

[lunar elm]

Yo you got nerded

[gilded relic]

One thing I would tell you is to mess with your previous photos redo them or process them more in different times

[lunar elm]

Congrats man

[rough chasm]

thank you

[lunar elm]

Okay, you want me to send you my best Saturn vid so you can try stuff out with it since im in a bus and can’t do anything rn?

[gilded relic]

Great I'll appreciate it

It's okay send it here

I'll keep the quality the same ok

Okay later but send it please

[lunar elm]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l7aUAqC58x8xukAMF1LEtcaVYXNNI3G7/view?usp=drivesdk

It should be it

[gilded relic]

Thanks

I think you also should buy a Precision DC motor drive

It's really cheap actually

[iron bear]

Andromeda Galaxy

📋 Exif:
🔭 Guide scope 32/125mm, 20mm 68° eyepiece , eq3 with onstep.
📷 Xiaomi Mi9T
⚙️ 90x35s iso 1600.
📌 Countryside of São Paulo, Brazil. Bortle 3

[potent hazel]

That’s an awesome picture and also a crazy setup

I’ve never seen somebody take a tracked, guided phone image

[iron bear]

thanks

[iron bear]

In this case, I did not use a guide camera. I used the cell phone with an eyepiece attached to a guide scope...

[potent hazel]

Oh I see. I read it as you buying a mount and a guide scope for phone images lol

[potent hazel]

Oh I see

I was also wrong the second time

That’s a strange setup man, I like it but I have never seen anything like it

[iron bear]

I think I was the first to test something like this

[potent hazel]

Yeah I believe it. Seems like it works great though

[elder birch]

Wow this is amazing! 👏 👏 👏
Inspiration for phone astrophotography

[lunar elm]

I have a table top dob

[lunar elm]

What the heck??, how, with just a phone?

[unborn loom]

Not just

[lunar elm]

I know with the scope and stuff, it’s just the processing in that is insane

[unborn loom]

Ye it's a crazy shot

[potent hazel]

Also I’ve noticed that Xiaomi phones are really good for astrophotography

[cunning anvil]

Took this picture of Orion Nebula last night with a 130mm reflector. Took it on iPhone 14 pro max

[rough chasm]

wow thats on phone?

[leaden lichen]

Hubble Variable Nebula, a single 15 second exposure from my phone with an 8 inch celestron

A single 8 second exposure of the orion nebula

I've just learnt of image stacking, so next clear night I'll take about 100 shots like this and stack them

[lunar elm]

I mean, the more the better

And also, what your phone?

[unborn loom]

Shoot raw

[lunar elm]

I have an iPhone 7 so I can’t BUT I am getting a camera soon so now I’ll be able to shoot raw

[cunning anvil]

What phone and telescope?

[leaden lichen]

8 inch celestron and a Samsung s20

That was only a single 4 second exposure I think

[brave jasper]

what did u use to get this shot what equipment

never mind i see above

[iron bear]

Yep

I just use processing techniques similar to those who have a dedicated camera. In addition to using it in the equatorial assembly, which facilitates

[peak oxide]

First night out with the new telescope. Spent more time learning the telescope than imaging.

This was only a 30 sec video in 720p with my s10+

Telescope: Nexstar 9.25 evolution

[edgy talon]

go hard

[wind spoke]

M1 with ma phone

M42 too

[unborn loom]

[pseudo portal]

I still think I need to collimate my Meade 16" heavy mortar a bit better as I'm still struggling to get good focus. Although until I fix the base so I can actually aim it without hefting it around like I'm moving a fridge anything I get on it is pot luck 🙂
Clear skies tonight, if a bit windy and there's a fiesta on in the plaza next to my house until 7am, so I thought I'd take the covers off and give it a go.

Orion Nebula with iPhone 13 in Night Mode (5 sec exposure) using the Celestron NexYZ phone adaptor (can totally recommend as it makes life a lot easier). Meade 16" Dob with cheap 25mm eyepiece.
Bortle 6 but with Prodigy tribute act playing at full volume and lighting 😉

[iron bear]

Constellation of Orion with Mars slightly to the left

📋 Exif:
📷 Xiaomi Mi9T
⚙️ 30x20s iso 1600. Fixed tripod
📌 Countryside of São Paulo, Brazil. Bortle 3-4.

[hot cliff]

You sure that scope isnt too heavy for the mount ?

[edgy talon]

merry chrismas boys

[leaden lichen]

I'm currently shooting the Christmas tree nebula lol

[edgy talon]

fr

[limpid skiff]

What did you use to take this?

My best and probably last Orion Nebula photo with my phone, I’m getting a dslr because my phone camera and telescope are not a good match or it’s just how I edit.50 1.5 second exposures.

[scarlet saddle]

Using GoPro Hero7

[wind spoke]

I am jealous

[rough chasm]

nice thats good for only a phone

[livid lance]

Wait this was done with your phone? Impressive

[visual flower]

2 days ago I tried imaging andromeda with my phone (p30 pro) and set it to do a manual 30s exposure in the pro mode. The stars were nice and round even though the focal length wasn't small. So I am wondering... are phones even able to do "real" long exposures? Or are they always stacking exposures on the background? I then tried it with the iPhone 14 pro and you cant even exposure for more than 3s unless you use the night mode (which again stacks the images in the background)

[visual flower]

This was a 30s exposure with my phones 5x zoom lens

if it was a real 30s exposure the stars would have trailed

so I am wondering... why can't phones do actual long exposures? 🤔 🤔

[rough chasm]

i think they make you wait a 30 second timer but secretly remove the data that trails without you knowing like maybe a auto correcting thing

[unborn loom]

They can. Was this in pro mode?

Idk whats up with ur phone

[visual flower]

yes it was in pro mode

and raw output

how do you know they can?

the internal stacking is pretty good so the results almost look like real 30 exposures

unless you aim at stars

[unborn loom]

Because mine can

On 1x, at 30 seconds i see a bit of trailing so i belive it's 30 seconds.

[unborn loom]

Wdym internal stacking? In pro mode it shouldn't stack

If it stacks that is astrophotography mode. It takes many short exposures and stacks them.

[visual flower]

that's what I expected

but my image result tells a different story

[unborn loom]

Hmm interesting

[visual flower]

do you have foreground in your image?

because if I have foreground I can also see star trails

I guess that's because it uses the foreground as a reference but it still doesn't actually do a 30s exposure

[unborn loom]

No foreground.

[visual flower]

what phone do you have?

[unborn loom]

Samsung galaxy s21fe

[visual flower]

I could ask for my sisters phone and try it again with hers. She has a Samsung Galaxy something too.

but my huawei p30 pro and the iPhone 14 pro really disappointed me

[unborn loom]

I'm really impressed by my phone tbh.

[visual flower]

you have a zoom lens too on your Samsung, right? how much "zoom" does it have?

and does the 30s exposure also work with this lens and sensor?

[unborn loom]

3x optical i think

[visual flower]

I see, my p30 has 5x optical so it would have been perfect to photograph andromeda

[unborn loom]

I've been using my phone and binoculars to image

[visual flower]

I was wanting to find out what's the limit of phone ap (only using a phone). Didn't expect to already fail taking a single actual 30s exposure

[unborn loom]

This is with binos and phone

[visual flower]

pretty good

[potent hazel]

Yeah the way phones do ap is pretty lame

The fun way to do it is planetary, phones actually work decently well there

[unborn loom]

People have gotten good results actually

But not with a phone alone

[potent hazel]

Well yeah there was that guy who was tracked with a phone

If you have a Xiaomi phone those are weirdly good

[leaden lichen]

The solar system captured with my phone and an 8 inch celestron

tbh most was with my 10 inch dob lol

Mercury, the Asteroids, Uranus and Neptune were shot with the 8 inch celestron

[peak oxide]

What eyepiece did you use with the 10"?

[leaden lichen]

6mm

im pretty sure

Images taken using a Samsung s20

Jupiter is the best imo, im super proud of it

roughly 500 frames stacked, edited, processed and enhanced

I love the colours, and how "smooth" the image is in a way

very little noise

[peak oxide]

Yea thats impressive!

[opaque spear]

I used to have a s20 but the board fried and the warrenty was refused

[white kraken]

this is the best shot of the moon that I've got rn its not the greatest but it is still a cheap xiaomi phone (2min video at 30fps stacked and processed)

this is also a one shot image of saturn, I think that the cassini devision is visible but barely

[white kraken]

you can see a tiny gap there and I think that might be it but irdk

[floral marlin]

pleiades at 10x digital zoom taken on a cheap samsung

[limpid skiff]

-60x2 second/120 seconds
-Untracked
-With iPhone 11 and Orion spaceprobe Newtonian telescope
Stacked and edited with AstroShader which is a phone app for phone astrophotography I recommend.
This is gonna be my last phone deep space picture, because I’m getting a new dslr tomorrow sad because I think I did pretty good for a iPhone.

[final crag]

2022, september - december, my first year of astro-photography!

[lunar elm]

That’s awesome

How big is your scope?

[final crag]

celestron nexstar114gt
1000mm focal length and 114mm apeture
@lunar elm

[lunar elm]

Nice

[gilded relic]

Nice job

Last night I also tried the Orion nebula too

[final crag]

Interesting shape

[spare ravine]

I got these images with the moon using my phone and a 150/1400 telescope untracked. I think its ok, what do you guys think?

and this is my try at the orion nebula, it looks soooo bad XD but Im getting better.

[vague warren]

1 Frame from a 4k 60 vid clip.

Samsung S10+ tele lens, Orion 10mm plossl on a Orion Barlow 2x, Orion XT8, above average seeing.

[arctic lark]

the asteroid ones are impressive

[spare ravine]

some moon craters captured with my p30 lite and a 150/1400 newton telescope

Im bad a lunar stacking XD

[faint pine]

Nice shot

I think when it comes to phone astrophotography it may be better not to stack in some cases

this is a single image taken with my phone, as long as the camera is centered exactly over the center of the eyepiece you should get a fairly good result

but overall I like your shot

[potent hazel]

Ehh very rarely

[faint pine]

honestly all my raw photos in good seeing have as much detail or slightly more detail than my stacked ones

they are just grainy

of course with a better camera the opposite is true

[potent hazel]

In my experience it’s always been better to stack, but you do you

To be fair lunar is weird

[elder birch]

Orion and barely visible running man.
iPhone13 with attached to a monocular.
x150, 1s, ISO 1800.

Quite happy with this one, as it was captured with just an iPhone13 and a tripod.
Andromeda.
x250, 4s, ISO 3000.

[faint pine]

wonderful shots

[vague warren]

Raw image from pro mode.

Quick edit in Adobe Lightroom mobile.

Samsung S10+, Orion 25mm plossl, Orion XT8, above average seeing.

[peak oxide]

Single image from my s10+ with 2x zoom and a 9mm eyepiece with 9.25" telescope

[faint pine]

tried reprocessing an old shot of saturn that I took with my phone

[gilded relic]

A single frame from pro mode on s21 and edited in Lightroom and Snapseed

[patent zodiac]

you should try pleaides

[peak oxide]

With s10+ 9mm eyepiece and Evo 9.25

[spare ravine]

got some better results today

150mm telescope + 20 mm eyepice with 2x barlow. Stacked 300 frames and edited in gimp

[gilded relic]

My last edit on Orion nebula

This one is 180⁰ rotated and from my previous one and I also stacked 21 frames for this one , in previous one I only stacked 12 frames for it .

[peak oxide]

What program do you use to stack?

[gilded relic]

DSS

[gilded relic]

Deep sky stacker and Lightroom

[sullen bison]

Celestron 21045 114mm Equatorial PowerSeeker EQ Telescope
Is it good for astrophotography with phone and in genral?

[unborn loom]

For astrophotography get a dslr+kit lens and start by doing untracked astrophotography

[sullen bison]

I have been doing some untracked using my smartphone

[unborn loom]

Get a dslr+kit lens

[sullen bison]

Ok

Thanks

Are there any good beginner dslr(with lens) under 100$ .

[unborn loom]

#🤓-ask-a-nerd

[spare ravine]

some better results today

[opaque spear]

Google pixel 7 pro with a 8inch newtonian

[white kraken]

I'm proud to post my fist orion image with my redmi 7 phone through an 8in skywatcher. this is about 2mins of data (4x 32s) and honestly I'm loving it. I'd stack more images but if I did that the core would be way overexposed

this is also the moon shot that I got by stacking 10% of 7200 frames

[alpine bison]

how hard is photograph H-alfa nebula with phone redmi note 8 ?

[peak oxide]

Jupiter and Saturn with my s10+ through 9mm eyepiece

[gilded relic]

Hi guys

It's me again

These are the HD Moon pictures I got with my phone

Please tell me which one's better?

Actually I was surprised that how easy the process of Composite Moon is

I chosed 3 images but I think the data wasn't enough for the moons halo

[arctic lark]

I wouldnt say so, eyepiece and mount sucks

Only good thing is its optical tube

[peak oxide]

Mars with my s10+ with 2x opitcal zoom through 9mm eyepiece

[gilded relic]

One question what was your tracking?

And the Focus

[gilded relic]

Guys this is my new Orion nebula the second try

More details about this, is in the part of ;ORION (post orion pics here).

[peak oxide]

I used my Evolution 9.25 telescope, this is the limit of phone astrophotography in my opinion, I don't think I can get better than this with phone.

It was hard to see how much to focus with the focus knob on the telescope because mars was flying everywhere when turning the knob.

I zoomed in a lot with my phone and turned the focus knob until I saw some detail on Mars like the darker area and then I zoomed out to 2x optical zoom and filmed for 50 seconds

[gilded relic]

Nice job mate

[iron bear]

2022 retrospective. Some of my photos taken at last year
All using my smartphone!

[white kraken]

what phone?

[peak oxide]

Wow, the saturn and Jupiter picture are very detailed, every picture looks like is taken with a zwo camera. What telescope and phone do you have?

[iron bear]

Xiaomi Mi9T

[iron bear]

Mi9T and 114/900mm with eq3 mount

[peak oxide]

Amazing!

[rocky vessel]

First image taken with my first telescope! (orion nebula)

tomorrow i'll try to take a better picture

[peak oxide]

Sry to ask, what resolution and fps were you filming with for Jupiter and Saturn?

[iron bear]

2.5k at 60 fps with 8x digital zoom

I recorded the screen that day

[peak oxide]

Crazy, thanks a lot for sharing!

[unborn loom]

How much magnification?

[iron bear]

233x

I need more magnification. Maybe a 3x barlow or 5x

[elder birch]

I didn't shoot Pleaides with the monocular unfortunately.
This was just shot with an iPhone running AstroShader (settings: x50 4s, ISO 1600)

[gilded relic]

@iron bear what's your tracking mount?

[bleak niche]

4 bit

[iron bear]

eq3

generic eq3

[lunar elm]

That’s flipping awesome

[bronze jackal]

Taken with samsung s22 in the astrophotography mode

Also a single 4 second exposure on orion, 3200 ISO, F4.9 with the 10x supertelephoto lens (idk the focal length)

[unborn loom]

[iron bear]

35s exposure from now

borte 3 with full mon

and some high clouds

[opaque spear]

i own a old eq3 i think and it motor are too weak for the size of my telescope currently thinking to do something similar but instead of using a mount with no motor id just replace the stock motor with stronger stepper motor

[edgy talon]

does it come motorized

[iron bear]

Do not. I did the adaptation of the engines myself. The system itself I bought with a local ATM

[edgy talon]

finna copy off of you

or just get the orion observer clock drive

[iron bear]

Timelapse from lastnight. arround 200 photos of 35s at 400 iso. Xiaomi Mi9T

[unborn loom]

[arctic lark]

moonm

[fading bobcat]

Not even

Jk. Just poorly.edited

[chilly vessel]

1 with phone and telescope, 1 with phone cam

[elder birch]

Orion nebula from last night
SkyWatcher 130P + AZ-GTi + iPhone13
Shot with AstroShader (x200 10s, ISO 450) edited on AstroShader and iOS Photos apps

• Weird bit of dust that looks like a comet

[rough chasm]

not bad but would recommend not going to harsh on the sharpness increase

[hoary sorrel]

from a Samsung galaxy s7

[elder birch]

Thanks for the tip! This is re-edit with less sharpening.
My self imposed rule of end-to-ending the image on mobile is making it hard to bring out some of the faint detail without over using sharpening. ...I think all roads are leading to me adding a wavelet/laplacian feature enhancing tool on AstroShader

Not shooting from a B9 may help too 🙈

[white kraken]

hey im gonna have a clear night tonight and am wondering for any tips?

i wanna do deepsky mainly orion and andromeda and something else if I get the time

[white kraken]

jfk this was horrible english

[bronze jackal]

Pleiades in the moonlight from a few days ago

[fading bobcat]

@wind spoke should I consider using 3200 Iso?

[wind spoke]

Just look at the brightness of the image

[terse smelt]

I raise you the "pliedies"

[bronze jackal]

What about the pleagles

[white kraken]

just finished processing my first andromeda! this is 30minues of data shot with 32s exposures for about an hour and then another hour learning how to process it

also does anyone know an app where with 1 click i could take multiple exposures or just have it run on auto because taking 63 frames by hand was a real pain

also discord compression absolutely wrecked my image

this is a bit better but still not how it looks like when i look at the raw tif file

[faint pine]

tried one called deep sky camera

never actually used it for deep sky

but it takes them automatically

you have to manually stop it though

[bronze jackal]

Pretty sure you can get virtual intervelometer apps that work with any camera app

The app i was thinking of is a paid app though

[unborn loom]

Just use autoclicker or deepsky camera

[terse smelt]

Plied

[timid wedge]

Orion neb through 6inch dob and iPhone12 (btw I live in bortle9!!!!!🥲🥲💀💀)

[timid wedge]

Did you stack???

[unborn loom]

Stretch more if you can, and backround extract in siril

[unborn loom]

Yeah

[elder birch]

Yeah the app stacks it for me

[elder birch]

I'll give it a try. Thinking of adding some better editing tools to AstroShader.
Trying to keep everything on the phone as a fun experiment

[timid wedge]

What app did you use to stack???

[unborn loom]

He made the app himself

For iphone only

[bronze jackal]

Beehive cluster samsung s22

[elder birch]

This was stretching it to the absolute limit and bumping saturation too.`

Definitely at the limit of my phones capabilities 😂

[real cloud]

I recently got PixInsight and I tried using it on the triangulum galaxy that posted a while back.
It has Noise, Star and Blur X applied.

[cunning anvil]

Last night I was messing with my iPhone 14 pro max using the stock camera app and AstroShader. It was a little cloudy and you get to see that here. These are from the stock camera app: you can see seven sisters Sirius, Rigel, and Betelgeuse

And these were from AstroShader, I had ISO around 1000-1600 and was just messing with exposures and exposures (secs)

[elder birch]

Nice photos, given the cloud!
I think for shorter exposures the stock app might be easier and better. Apple automatically applies sharpening, brightness etc. Although I don't think they align the images properly.

On your last image try opening it in AstroShader and boosting the low light then adding max sharpening at say 1.0 and also 1.5

With the main camera (best sensor) I can get 4s exposures before star trailing, then stack as many as you can be bothered to wait for. The image will be a flat but if you boost the light and sharpen it should bring out the detail

[cunning anvil]

Awesome thanks for the tips! I love the app and will be messing with it now that the clouds should be clearing out!

[elder birch]

No problem!

Also glad to hear it’s working on iPhone14.
The main camera sensor upgrade is one of the biggest changes for years, and I wasn’t 100% if AstroShader would work. I think it has masses of potential

[cunning anvil]

I agree! I was actually using it to get the finally picture of the night but my phone died before the picture was taken so I’ll have to try again one of these nights. But I’m really enjoying the app but I do wish that the volume button on headphones would trigger the shutter. But it doesn’t really matter since the timer has 10 seconds

[unborn loom]

Setup?

[alpine bison]

HEQ-5 wifi
Redmi note 8
10 X 32s

[unborn loom]

scope?

[alpine bison]

150/750

[fading bobcat]

You. An use deepskycam and you can set it to take so many frames per time you press the shutter (of course it takes time, and if you manually do so, you need to track before starting again)

[edgy talon]

i love sequator

[terse smelt]

Small thinning of the clouds allowed me to take this picture

[timid wedge]

@elder birch what scope did you use, what iso, how many exposures, how much exposure time, what app did you use and in what bortle did you capture it??????

[unborn loom]

@elder birch btw, you should be even able to stretch it more in gimp if you backround extract in siril

[elder birch]

This was the setup:

Orion nebula from last night
SkyWatcher 130P + AZ-GTi + iPhone13
Shot with AstroShader (x200 10s, ISO 450) edited on AstroShader and iOS Photos apps

It was from a B9 and off a balcony in between blocks of flats 😅. Hopefully will get to test from some dark skies later this year

[elder birch]

Thanks, I might try that out for comparison.
In general I’m aiming to process all my photos on phone only, to force myself to figure out how or add the right tools to AS

[timid wedge]

I live b9 too, your Orion pic is AMAZING for b9

[timid wedge]

I use iPhone 12

[dense gorge]

Galaxy S22 Ultra, 850 frames.
1s, 3200 ISO untracked.

Processed in Siril

[bronze jackal]

Have you used the astrophotography mode in the expert raw app?

[dense gorge]

No and let me write something about Expert Raw. In the first time, I loved Expert Raw, but after while I hate him. I doesn't save real raw images, jpg is weirdly processed - try to zoom on any image captured by Expert Raw.

I tried import files from Expert raw into the Siril and Siril returned error, similar when I tried import jpg files. 😄

[bronze jackal]

Ah interesting

[dense gorge]

So I only use the stock app in a pro mode, 10x camera, manually adjust parameters like ISO, exposure, and focus, and take a lot of images.

[bronze jackal]

I asked because ive been experiencing some bugs with the astrophotography mode and wanted to know if someone else had the same issues

[dense gorge]

I must buy tracker, that phone is incredible for astrophotography

[dense gorge]

I've never got great image from Expert Raw

[bronze jackal]

Wierdly, when i let the 4 minute timer go all the way down it gives a camera failed error and does not save the image, if i stop the capture with only a few seconds to go it works fine. It only happens woth the telephoto lens

And yeah i find the expert raw images to be really noisy

[dense gorge]

Exactly

[bronze jackal]

I do really like the aesthetics of the images from the astro mode but the detail isnt great

[dense gorge]

Galaxy S22 Ultra, 10x lens.

500 frames and 20%, exp 1/350, ISO 50

[elder birch]

I was quite surprised as Orion was quite low in the sky.
Going to a dark site will be better, but for city people it’s nice to be able to do something 😅

[dense gorge]

I waiting for clear sky more than 1 month 😄

[bronze jackal]

I have clear skies tommorow but i have to go to sleep early for my driving test the next day 😔

[dense gorge]

It's bad 😦

I have a plan to take around 3000 images of Orion and stack

[fading bobcat]

My orion nebula photos.

Galaxy s20 FE using deepskycam beta (both were in RAW, but one was screenshoted so you can see it.)

F/5, 130eq, Tracked, 20mm lens. Trying to stack frames on deepskystacker atm.

[unborn loom]

Nice

[dense gorge]

Looks nice, anyway does anyone tried to use Zoom camera + telescope? It should prevent to create "circle". Lower FOV should help minimize that.

[unborn loom]

Either zoom or crop

[dense gorge]

Digital zoom or crop isn't great idea, because smartphone raw doesn't have many MPx. Usually around 12MPx.

[unborn loom]

Wdym by zoom camera then?

[dense gorge]

Use camera with longer focal length. For Example Galaxy S22U have:
108 MP, f/1.8, 23mm
10 MP, f/2.4, 70mm
10 MP, f/4.9, 230mm

So I think it should be better to use 10 MP, f/2.4, 70mm or 10 MP, f/4.9, 230mm than 108 MP (Binned to 12MP), f/1.8, 23mm.

[unborn loom]

S22U has 3x optical zoom

[dense gorge]

And 10x optical

[unborn loom]

Yea

3x better tho probably

10x too much

[dense gorge]

Yep, I believe 3x will be better than 1x

[muted sedge]

Xiaomi Redmi K20 Pro, Bortle 6

Stacked in Sequator

[dense gorge]

What's in the right bottom corner? Source of light?

[muted sedge]

Yup!

No wait. It's a plant that I wanted to remove from the final image, but something went wrong with the 'sky region' part.

[muted sedge]

Another one I took today.

[floral marlin]

tried to capture m42 with my a52s, 10x50 binos and a shoe as my phone stand lol

[dense gorge]

Does A52s support raw?

[floral marlin]

the stock camera app doesnt

but the Google camera port from the pixels does

i rarely ever use these two because the app itself is buggy (non official port) and these generate noisy low quality pics

[dense gorge]

Do you know open camera?

[floral marlin]

no I've heard of it but haven't installed it before

does it take raw

[dense gorge]

Yes, that app can take raw images

[floral marlin]

ok ill try it out tomorrow since it's the last clear day of the week

thanks

[thin marten]

Which phone are you using?

You installed gcam in it?

[floral marlin]

yes

bsg gcam port

[floral marlin]

a52s

[thin marten]

Even i use that!

Use this app
It is best for astro photography

It can capture in raw as well

Has a built in intervelometer

[unborn loom]

The app doesn't open for me lmao

[floral marlin]

works flawlessly!

[sharp bolt]

Ah! Third time

Im noob

Camera: Realme 1

[compact orchid]

I took this picture last February using my Celestron NexStar130SLT with the iPhone12Pro

[humble cypress]

6 minutes bortle 5 samsung S20 and 20x50 binoculars

s22 20 minutes milky way

[dense gorge]

S22 Ultra
120x 2s
ISO 3200
High light pollution

[humble cypress]

not bad at all

[dense gorge]

I think S22 Ultra could be amazing pocket astrophotography tool or great device for beginners.

I could imagine how good images could be, if I use tracker or capture more images.

[unborn loom]

Any phone will really do

What i got

[floral marlin]

i tried shooting star trails not realising clouds were about to almost completely cover the sky

covering like 90% of all the stars

waited 1.5 hr in freezing cold for nothing smh smh

[unborn loom]

[dense gorge]

That's true, but only S21 and S22U have 10x optical zoom, equivalent to 230mm focal lenght

[unborn loom]

But i mean i wouldn't want to shoot untracked at 230mm, and i feel like 1 sec exposure on 10x is going to be very bad in terms of noise and stuff

[dense gorge]

That's true, but with tracker like barn door could be great

[unborn loom]

If you get good polar alligmnet sure, which can be tricky. But still will give you longer subs!

I made a live view guiding system so i can pull 30 sec subs at 150mm

(Hand tracked)

[dense gorge]

I want to build small tracker for my phone😁

[unborn loom]

We didn't learn electronics at school so i don't know about anything what to buy💀

[dense gorge]

I'm IT and electronics, feel free to ask anytime 😉

[unborn loom]

Damn, thats awesome. Thanks

I don't know anything about what motherboard to buy, what wires and motor

[dense gorge]

In my opinion basics tracker need only motor, nothing difficult, keep minimalistic

[unborn loom]

A motor yes, but that needs to be connected to the wires, and the wires need to be connected with the motherboard, and the motherboard needs to be the right one, no?

[dense gorge]

Motor needs just power supply, electric voltage and current.

Nothing more

I personally use laboratory regulated power supply to drive anything what I builed

[unborn loom]

Ohhhh

The current regulates the speed?

[dense gorge]

More voltage from power supply, motor takes more current from power supply and then rotation will be faster

Less voltage, less current slower rotation

[unborn loom]

And the voltage can be changed, so we can change the motors speed?

[dense gorge]

Right

[unborn loom]

Thats good infornation, thanks. But i think in the future if we ever do, we should either chat in general or private message, since it clogs up the chat here.

[dense gorge]

No problem, you can write me PM

[dense gorge]

A little bit better processing

[thin marten]

💀 bruh

[thin marten]

You used stock camera?

@unborn loom download this app to know your camera hardware support level

My phone's hardware support level is level3

It has to be "level3" or "full" in order to run certain camera apps with manual camera control

Read this..

[unborn loom]

Mine is good enough, samsung galaxy s21fe

It supports other camera apps

[dense gorge]

full is best

[floral marlin]

smh

[thin marten]

Cool

[thin marten]

Ig the problem is with the app itself

[floral marlin]

probably

understandable since it's still in early access

[thin marten]

Bruh it's showing "early access" from 3 years 💀

[deft bloom]

An unprocessed image of the moon from my 50 celestron travel scope it’s unprocessed because I’m having trouble getting videos from phone to pc

[dense gorge]

Just capture raw images

[unborn loom]

What do you mean?

[dense gorge]

Manual mode set exposures, iso, focus and take raw files like DSLR

[unborn loom]

On planetary it's a bit different, you don't take images, you take video

[dense gorge]

Well, but JPG video? Uh

Hmm I think I have something crazy 🙂 Did you heard about app possible capture raw video? 😄

https://www.motioncamapp.com/

But it requriments are crazy, you need in the best flagship CPU, fast memory and a lot of RAM

[real cloud]

I tried shooting with SA-GTi + Nikon 7x50 binoculars + S22U
and got a teeny bit of nebulosity on Pleiades.
180x300 sec on ExpertRAW app.
Stacked on Sequator. Edited on PixInsight.

[dense gorge]

It looks decent 🙂

[real cloud]

thanks 🙂

[dense gorge]

I also have S22U, I tried take Orion, but cold environment cause a out of focus.

😦

[real cloud]

I actually took the above pic during fall. I didn't know how to process it until recently.
Cold weather causing focus issue is something I haven't ran into yet but that is a good point.
Usually the challenge for me is getting the initial focus right.
I usually use .7 to .8 manual focus on the stock/ExpertRAW app and it's been working well for me.

[dense gorge]

.7 to .8 I also use, initial focus is pain 😄 I hope more warm weather help me prevent focus issue

[real cloud]

@dense gorge I got a question for you.
When you shoot your subs on the 108MP, do you ever get this purple stray light or reflection?
It happens for me when I use a scope or binoculars (mostly on my ST80 scope)
I'm not sure what's causing it but it's been driving me nutz.

[dense gorge]

12Mp mode is fine, do you see that in a raw?

[real cloud]

yes it's in raw. happens both in both bit rates.

[dense gorge]

It looks like your S22U need to be more precise mounted on your scope. Images also shows your ocular was a little bit on the right.

[real cloud]

I don't think that's the reason.
here's an example where my camera was way off to the top left. you can still see the purple light on the right.

[real cloud]

i took these screen shots using the snipping tool

let me see if i can get you a full image

[dense gorge]

I noticed similar effect on different phones when camera have tilt to ocular. It can cause reflection from camera on phone like mirror and go back to scope.

[real cloud]

yeah you're right it's not perfectly centered

funny thing is I spent 70 bux on the best phone mount out there and it's still off

[dense gorge]

I think this is next reason for weird pink reflection

[real cloud]

I thought it was the reflection from other lenses too so I even went ahead and tried flocking my phone which helped but it never went away fully.

(also I have a phone with a sliding cover to take darks)

[dense gorge]

Great point!

[dense gorge]

But I think this is biggest issue

You can also try use 3x optical zoom. That camera have lower FOV, you will be able to fill frame with ocular better

[real cloud]

yeah so my next question leads to the 3x camera.
When I put the slide cover on and take a 30 sec, 1600ISO shot, it looks like this.
extremely blue.

do you have this issue with yours? idk if you tried taking darks.

[dense gorge]

Oh I know that. Expert RAW doesn't take true RAW. They applying processing directly to RAW images. Siril refuses to load files from Expert RAW error like I imported JPG 😄
Don't use Expert RAW, just don't it's crap and shit, especially for us - astro nerds.

[real cloud]

ok i thought so too. especially since it's super difficult to stretch raws from it.

btw the blue darks also happen with just the regular camera app in pro mode just not as noisy as this.

[dense gorge]

I only use stock app in pro mode

[real cloud]

ok so i'm guessing you haven't ran into the issues I listed on your S22U?
Maybe i have a defective unit.

[dense gorge]

Expert RAW bias

[real cloud]

which is perfect timing because S23U is just around the corner

[dense gorge]

Regular stock camera app pro mode and bias

[dense gorge]

Me right now: Should I buy S23 Ultra or Nikon Z6 II... 😄

[real cloud]

yeah my darks on ExpertRaw look like dark nebula too

[dense gorge]

Try to capture darks with regular app in pro mode, check if you have enable raw

Expert RAW dark frame

Regular app camera dark frame

Expert RAW produces totally shity images

[real cloud]

good to know. I'll be sticking with the normal phone app.

although something seems off about my bias image lol

maybe I took too many photos and it's at end of its life

@dense gorge I appreciate you taking the time trying to troubleshoot.

[dense gorge]

If you want to try planetary try this: https://www.motioncamapp.com/
That app can record raw video! 😄

[dense gorge]

No problem I investing a lot time to phone photography and mastering 😄 I want to also build notes about this phone astro photography.

[unborn loom]

How can i check if my video is raw?

Professional mode works for me for planetary

[dense gorge]

Stock cam app can't do that,use motioncamera.

You will get .mcraw file, motioncamera can render that as video or as separate raw files

[opaque spear]

i think that could work on my google pixel 7 pro could run it without much probleme

[dense gorge]

Pixel 7 pro seems to have enough power for this app. No surprise, Pixel is flagship class.

[dense gorge]

700x 2s ISO 3200 untracked
Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra 10x optical zoom f4.9 (build in camera)
Siril
Note: Little bit out of focus

[gilded relic]

How did you capture this vedio with what phone, ISO and Exposure setting?

[elder birch]

I had/have a similar issue on iPhone and it turned out to be the LiDAR infrared LED.

Is the flocking completely opaque? As maybe the infrared LED could be shining through the flocking (I’d guess it’s the top right bit in the camera mount area with the red colour)

[real cloud]

@elder birch Someone else suggested that so I went ahead and added privacy stickers on all glass elements on the back lenses except the main one. And then I put that flock material over it.
I attempted a 2nd flocking attempt, this time being way more aggressive and I ended up making almost a pin hole opening. Some of the flock material actually covered the outer part of the main camera (it still took pictures fine, no obstructions).
Doing this actually reduced the purple light but it wasn't completely removed.

I even took a black sharpie and colored the tiny metallic rings on the outer edges of the camera lenses but no dice.

I wonder if it's possible that the LiDAR led is housed in the main camera itself.

Or maybe there's some of that light leeching into the camera under the chassis. I spent a lot of time thinking about and failing at fixing this issue 😆

[dense gorge]

Btw: focus led on s22u produces a lot of IR

[real cloud]

Hey that looks familiar!

[real cloud]

oh my god. I think the LED is emitting gamma rays. (or the privacy stickers are not working ).
I think this explains why I was still seeing trace amounts of light!
So the answer is no. these things are not completely opaque!

[hexed whale]

It should be IR

I have the same phone

And yes ik it has a purple hue to it

But on other phones it looks red

And, please don't cover that, your auto focus will die

Well, it will get confused

Oh sry, I didn't read up

Whoops

[real cloud]

Good to know.
I never use auto focus. always manual at .7 or .8 when going for night sky shots. I'll have to figure out how to beef up the sticker.

[hexed whale]

Yeah I find the bridge between 0.7 and 0.8 best

Got this last night, 15s exposure and 0.8mm focus point

That's a street light btw

[real cloud]

very nice. crispy stars.

[hexed whale]

This was too far into the 0.7mm range and obvi out of focus

[real cloud]

mhmm mhmm

I'm very excited now. My phone is back in play.
Thanks for all the help everyone.

[floral marlin]

tried it again last night and it's so much better

[edgy talon]

2 sec 50 ish frames

[dense gorge]

Same! 😄

[dense gorge]

Let me know if all advises worked. I want to build pocket setup for astrophotography and use main device will be S22U (or S23U) 😄

I also wonder what happened if you use 3x optical zoom camera with your scope 🙂 @real cloud Please could you test that also?

[dense gorge]

Little bit test of S22U + NexYZ + 20 old shit binoculars.

I think 10x camera is superior

I must test that with moon 😂😂😂

[floral marlin]

the image is a bit blurry were the binos focused properly

or is it because of added digital zoom

[dense gorge]

No, blur caused by shaking of my hands. No digital zoom.

S22U have 10x optical zoom (equal to 230mm) and binocular add 12x zoom.

So I tried to keep steady 230x12=2760mm focal length (that's obviously impossible) 😄

[unborn loom]

Ur not gonna get a clear image with bad optics and at 2.7k focal lenght

[floral marlin]

oh yeah fair point

[dense gorge]

Galaxy S22 Ultra
10x optical zoom 230mm and f4.9
800x 2s
3200 ISO
Cilabration: only bias

I need to take better focused images and also all frames for full calibration.

[unborn loom]

Thats pretty good. A nice trick to focus is zoom in on a bright star and get it as small as possible

[dense gorge]

And also trying to catch appearing a tiny green dots (focus assistant detect next objects - dimmer stars)

My loss of focus was caused by cool weather.

[slate marsh]

I got a picture of comet c3/2022 ztf e3

[rough chasm]

carina nebula

[peak oxide]

With my s10+ through 9mm eyepiece, Evo 9.25

[dense gorge]

Omg wow, how many frames?

[peak oxide]

Stacked 20% out of 2714 frames. Recorded 720p 30fps for 1 minute and 30 seconds

I think is possible for even better result because my seeing was shit. Here's a screenshot from the original video.. registax does magic fr

[peak oxide]

Looking at this screenshot on discord is worse than in my phone gallery but you get the point

[peak oxide]

Here's same data but less adjusted histogram in registax so the moons are visible

[dense gorge]

Did you used stock camera app?

[peak oxide]

Yes, Stock camera app in pro video mode

[dense gorge]

Try to use https://www.motioncamapp.com/
You can capture RAW sequence then render as separate raw files (images), pro version app can render raw video! 🙂

[peak oxide]

Ohh, yeah I will totally check it out. If my s10+ can handle it. Thanks!

[dense gorge]

No problem dude! 🙂

[spare ravine]

got this, It looks bad XD

[unborn loom]

Thats not working for me again

It previews the first 2 seconds then the screen freezes

[dense gorge]

Ah 😦 That's pity, but yeah, that app need so powerful device. App work best on latest flagship smartphones.

[unborn loom]

Do you have any idea whats like the minimum?

I have an S21FE

[spare ravine]

Got my best 15 sec shot of orion with manual tracking it was realy hard to not get star trails

[dense gorge]

It looks good

[spare ravine]

Thanks

[unborn loom]

I feel the pain

[spare ravine]

I was a lot of pain in my a$$ but it was worth it XD

[unborn loom]

Mine: but it's 30 seconds, so 2x more painful

[spare ravine]

But with less details

[unborn loom]

I dissagree

[edgy talon]

you got green noise

[edgy talon]

he dont

[spare ravine]

Here some blue one XD

[edgy talon]

what the hell is that

why is your focuser tube in the way

[chilly vessel]

Some of my stuff

[dense gorge]

Guys, I have plan to take 5000 frames of Moon at 1/320s. Could large set of images brings a lot of fine details or no?

[unborn loom]

Video yeah?

[dense gorge]

Yes

[heady lark]

I had the same thing happen to me

For some reason it’s not letting me send the image

[unborn loom]

Why not

It's a moon halo

[fading bobcat]

Seeing all these images makes me want to get better

[elder birch]

Orion and running man:
iPhone13 + 8x42 monocular.
AstroShader: 250x 1s, ISO 2000
As usual processed, edited and posted here all on a phone

[heady lark]

There

It’s has something to do with the moons light and refractions in the atmosphere. That’s what someone told me.

[unborn loom]

A lunar halo is caused by the refraction, reflection, and dispersion of light through ice particles suspended within thin, wispy, high altitude cirrus or cirrostratus clouds.

[rough chasm]

honestly thats nice id believe you if you said that was taken with a actual dslr camera

only issue is trailing

[bleak niche]

looks like coma/tilt not trailing

[dense gorge]

Woow looks cool

[peak oxide]

What app do you guys recomend? I am thinking of trying to get the comet today. I have a samsung

[floral marlin]

can your samsung shoot raw

if yes just use the pro mode tbh

[dense gorge]

Exactly and don't use Expert RAW is shit...

[neat pond]

Moon with my phone and 70 mm refractor

[dense gorge]

OMG man it looks like something from "scifi movie" I totally like that. Start of secret mission and ship getting closer to Moon! 😄

[neat pond]

Thanks😀

[edgy talon]

DAWG

[real cloud]

@edgy talon I tried editing it and got this.
is that the Trapezium I see?

[edgy talon]

trapezium?

wdym?

[floral marlin]

trapezium cluster

[peak oxide]

I used Deepskycamera on my samsung. Any idea what the red pixels are?

[floral marlin]

noise artifacts probably

[bleak niche]

yes its there

[bleak niche]

Carina, omega centauri and sombrero. Handheld with iPhone 7 and AstroShader. 8” dob

[neat pond]

I randomly do this shot

You must to open it in the browser if you want to see stars

[unborn loom]

Whats that

[neat pond]

Idk actually

[peak oxide]

I keep getting noise artifacts with Deepskycamera

[elder birch]

Another holiday shot using my monocular setup

Only 250s, I reckon with a bit longer it might be able to pull in some more nebulosity around Pleiades

[magic abyss]

32s on motog60 edited with Snapseed (will post the full 30min stack once I'm back from vacation 🙏🙏)

[neat pond]

Moon again

[iron bear]

Reprocessing of the Omega Nebula (Messier 17). Photo taken last year
.
📋 Exif:
🔭 Toya 114/900mm, 20mm 68° eyepiece, eq3 with onstep. Svbony cls filter
📷 Xiaomi Mi9T for capture.
⚙️ 480x25s iso 1600
📌 São Paulo city, Brazil. Bortle 9 sky

[dense gorge]

Congrants, it looks good and then people will say "You need DSLR for astro" 😄

[alpine bison]

how ? PS 10000000000/10 ⭐

[iron bear]

[neat pond]

Amazing work

[unborn loom]

Somethings not right

[humble cypress]

Why?

[unborn loom]

The stars aren't straight and theres a weird hole in them, also hot pixels

[humble cypress]

Okk

Tonight I'll try again. Perhaps with more data it will look better

Also, is there any software on Windows which stacks images to make star trails bc I stacked them on my phone and the software wasn't so great...

[wind spoke]

Looks fine to me lol

[magic abyss]

Incredible, did you do anything special other than a lot of subs?

[bronze jackal]

Polaris and surrounding area including that comet with the name i don't remember the name of

C22 etf or something

[unborn loom]

Can you point it out?

[unborn loom]

From what bortle level, and what is the integration time

[bronze jackal]

bortle 5 and 4 minutes

7 minutes of Orion

[lunar elm]

Do you mind linking the full vid?

Since with you can stack a vid with Pipp and autostakkert then to sharpen you use registax and for lighting i use lightroom

[wind spoke]

dang what else where u using to get that photo

[lunar elm]

First one had europas shadow on it btw and they are both taken with my iPhone 7, no cap

[humble cypress]

20 minutes on the comet with my phone and a binocular. Checking on stellarium the faintest stars were around magnitude 13.3

[lunar elm]

What bortle?

[humble cypress]

bortle 5

[lunar elm]

Oh nice

[humble cypress]

thanks

[wind spoke]

A celestron 130 slt that’s literally about to fall apart

[wind spoke]

Im gonna buy me a dob pretty soon just gotta save up some money

[dark lance]

Just a Timelapse of ZTF using a bunch of 5 second exposure shots.

[livid lance]

Just go in your photos and share it from there, if you try on discord it only sends the file link, at least it works for me

[tepid fjord]

anyone manage to get ztf on their phones? please send it's rly cloudy where I live ://

[solemn spindle]

Taken with iPhone 11. My best image of Jupiter so far

[charred ferry]

tf how do you even take these thru phone?

looks gorgeous

[cunning anvil]

What phone did you use?

[lunar elm]

Take a vid then put it through Pipp then stack it in autostakkert then sharpen it in registax 6 then edit a little the brightness in lightroom or photoshop or both

[charred ferry]

damnnnn

[lunar elm]

I got this with those techniques and a iPhone 7

[charred ferry]

how many megapixels should be the phone camera for such photos?

[lunar elm]

All free programs

[charred ferry]

lessgooo

[charred ferry]

man tht looks sick

[lunar elm]

Thanks

[charred ferry]

@lunar elm u take exposures only thru phone or u use telescopes too?

if u do you use telescopes can u recommend some good ones?

[lunar elm]

I put it on a telescope and take a vid, for Jupiter max 3 minutes, but I still do 5 cuz I’m kinda stupid lol, and since I’m untracked I just have to reframe Jupiter every 8 seconds or so

[lunar elm]

Good beginner one, is the starblast 4.5 aka the one I have, you can do a lot with that little dob for 400$ca but if you’re willing to spend more money then go for a bigger dob or a cam and tracker

[faint pine]

Tracker is not really necessary unless you are at crazy high magnification

But the heritage 150p virtuoso looks like it is great value

[lunar elm]

True

[faint pine]

But if you want to do AP then tracked is quite important

Unless you have a really big aperture and very dark skies (but even then tracked is better)

[lunar elm]

Tracked=always better

[charred ferry]

aight thanks

what is a tracker tho

im sorry if i annoy u guys cause im a total beginner in astrophotography

[lunar elm]

Tracks the stars cuz earth rotates

Spins in the opposite way of the earth

[charred ferry]

how does it work though?

[lunar elm]

Point it at the North Star and it will spin in a way so if you were standing on it (which you can’t) the stars would look completely still, with untracked photos you get star trails, that’s why you sometimes see these lines in a circle of stars, that’s cuz they’re trailed

[bronze jackal]

samsung s22 ultra

[charred ferry]

so these are star trails?

[lunar elm]

Yes

[charred ferry]

and thank you this makes it so easier to understand

[lunar elm]

Looks cool though

You’re welcome mate

[charred ferry]

man i got a eyegasm looking at this

[lunar elm]

Insane pic

[charred ferry]

thanks to jwst

[lunar elm]

Yeah

[ember nebula]

I have a pair of old binoculars cause I don't have a telescope and this is the best picture I've gotten of the moon in the last two years

I'm new to astrophotography and haven't done much of it but I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out

The moon reflection is from my window btw

[peak oxide]

I can really recomend the heritage 150p. I had the untracked version and I got this with my phone

[faint pine]

yeah it looks like a good scope

for the same amount of money as the virtuoso, untracked, you could get an 8" dob

[dense gorge]

Galaxy S22 Ultra raw video - 1850 frames, stacked in Siril.
10x optical zoom, f4.9
1/400s and ISO 50

[tepid fjord]

took this from my s22 on a self built Newtonian I think it's q cool considering I had no mount no stabilisation no tracking it was literally my dad pointing it at Jupiter and me holding my shaky hand over the lens to snap the pic

all 4 Galilean moons r visible too

irl u could see the stripes and great red spot but my phone couldn't pick it up for some reason I'll probably play arnd with the camera settings to see if I can capture those like maybe lower the iso or shutter speed or wtv I'm super new to this idk

tips wld be much appreciated but pls note I don't have much money I built the Newtonian for like 50 bucks and I'm literally using a smartphone to take pics 💀

[dawn hemlock]

Top one kinda looks like the Death Star lol

[arctic lark]

you will get better pics if ur not looking through a window

[solemn spindle]

Carina nebula with my iPhone 11

[lunar elm]

With a phone?!???!

[solemn spindle]

yup

[lunar elm]

Insane

Bortle?

[solemn spindle]

7

[lunar elm]

Same

How much intergration time?

[solemn spindle]

73 seconds

[lunar elm]

Damn

[ember nebula]

Yeah I know I'll get better pictures tonight

[lunar elm]

@charred ferry You need Pipp to convert a untracked video into a tracked vid then autostakkert 3! For stacking, then registax for sharpening and Lightroom is what I use for the brightness of your image

And trust me, the result you get after registax might look bad but once you edit it a little in lightroom, it get much better

[white kraken]

anyone know an app with which I could record video with custom iso?

[solemn spindle]

fotorgear is good but it is only for iphones

[spare ravine]

ProCamX

[dense gorge]

https://www.motioncamapp.com/

custom ISO, exposure, raw video 🙂

[vague warren]

I've used this on my S10+ and it worked well. I didnt use it for astro though, but for planetary/lunar work itd be nice I bet.

[iron bear]

Orion Nebula (m42)

📋Exif:
🔭 Toya 114/900mm (4,4 inch) , eq3 mount with onstep + Svbony 20mm 68° eyepiece
📷 Xiaomi Mi9T
⚙️ 512x25s + 40x15s iso 800 + 40x15s iso 200 (HDR). cls filter
📌 Contryside of São Paulo, Brazil. Bortle 3 with moon

[iron bear]

It had sent a single frame of the capture as I was making it. This is the end result

[white kraken]

how did you get this??? I want to know your processing step by step!

its legit one of the best orions ive seen and I dont mean that as a best phone orion I mean a best orion in general

[vague warren]

That's fantastic.

[dense gorge]

#🏆-hall-of-fame

[faint pine]

incredible

[lunar elm]

That’s crazy for a phone, gg

[white kraken]

You seem really good at this, any tips for tonight? gonna try and capture about 3h on the triangulum galaxy, any tips for getting the phone aligned or how to focus properly?

[unborn loom]

Yes. To focus zoom in on a bright star and get it as small as possible, then zoom back out (on pro mode). To allign the camera, i recomend either pointing it to the moon, max iso and max exposure time, then you will see the border. If you can't allign it with the moon, allign it roughly and take a lets say 5 sec exposure and reallign it everytime untill it's somewhat centered.

Btw what setup are you using?

[white kraken]

200p on an eq6r pro

[unborn loom]

With a phone

Jkjk

But gl

[white kraken]

ye triangulum did not pan out bc it was behind the neibghours trees and now I'm shooting orion, gonna get about 3h of data and call it a day but I got it focused and centered so hopefully it'll be better than my original attempt:

also note that this wasn't processed by me but by @quasi abyss

[unborn loom]

I can't wait to see ur results

Should be awesome if everything is done correctly

[magic abyss]

guys i need a tip for taking calibration frames with a phone. do i take EVERY type of frame with the phone on the eyepice? and doesn't the edge of the eyepiece reflecting a bit of light affect the result of the flats?

[unborn loom]

I wouldn't bother but if you want to try why not

I do have a feeling it's gonna mess it up tho

[white kraken]

this is the best shot I got of it when the atmosphere was just amazingly calm, still waiting for calibration frames to finish but I'm hopeful

also going to try and process it in a bunch of different ways using a different % of the best frames, I think I'll have the best result at 50% since half of my frames have a score of under 100 and the other half above 100

but again I'd be throwing away 50% of my exposure time which is about 2h

[white kraken]

gonna try and to process the data tomorrow, I'm still quite new to this so I'll try my best and I'll see

[cunning anvil]

Incredible! If I may, did you pick the phone for a specific reason or was it a phone you already had?

[potent hazel]

Ok tracked phone astrophotography is so cool

[dense gorge]

As always, phone sensors and camera in the general is pretty amazing in these days.

[muted sedge]

Orion and the nebula

Redmi K20 Pro, processed in Sequator, SiriL and GIMP

Bortle 4

This is my first "good" image of a nebula!

[dense gorge]

Guys... Galaxy S23 Ultra is home, I'll try some shots 😄

[unborn loom]

Wow you bought it?

[dense gorge]

Yep

Landscape and milkway will be incredible, device can take 50MPx unprocessed RAW 😄

[unborn loom]

May i ask why?

[dense gorge]

Of course 🙂

[unborn loom]

Why?

[dense gorge]

I bought S23 Ultra not only for camera, it's better, better than I think, but I also bought that because of CPU. I have own cloud gaming solution and decoding latency on my S22U with Exynos 2200 wasn't perfect, when device heat up, decoding become unstable and slow.

I also use Dex mode "Computer in the pocket" and connecting remotely to my desktop at home, Dex mode is pretty intensive for performance.

[white kraken]

why not just get a dslr at that point?

or better yet a dedicated astro camera

[dense gorge]

Because I want to carry decent camera in my pocket and have great way to save memories with people what I love. My father carry all time D750 with all lenses and he mostly miss most amazing moments and still need to be worry about people around him

[bleak niche]

You bought a phone when you have a D750 in the house?

[dense gorge]

I met family 2x times at year, so hard to access get to D750 from father.

[unborn loom]

The s23 ultra is really that much better than s22 ultra?

[dense gorge]

Camera have noticable improvements, 50Mp raw - I want to use that for stacking and night landscape.

I surprised 50Mp and 12Mp raw have barely same noise, not bad for tiny pixels.

As for the CPU, more than 60% performance, lower heat and it's first phone what can bypass battery while gaming or anything extensive.

Directly powering smartphone without charging battery - less heat, longer battery life.

[unborn loom]

If ur happy with ur purchase thats good

[potent hazel]

A quick shot of Orion. Obviously not trying too hard, a friend asked me what it looked like visually and this was by best representation

Quick process in Lightroom. Only a single frame. Idk why I put any time into this lol

[dense gorge]

Well yeah I think you get it exactly why we usually see on sky 😄

[floral marlin]

how is orion supposed to look like through binos I can only see a few tiny stars and some faint fuzz where it's supposed to be

i cant stress how faint it is enough

long exp shots with my phone aren't any better

[unborn loom]

Yeah it's faint and fuzzy+no color

Long exposure shots willl be better

[unborn loom]

Heavily depends on ur bortle level

[floral marlin]

bortle 2

[floral marlin]

good to know

[potent hazel]

From B2 it will look good

You can probably see the arms and stuff

[muted sedge]

This image was taken with a phone.

Can anyone confirm if the circled object is the green comet?

(C/2022 E3 ZTF)

[versed crow]

When was this taken?

[floral marlin]

i can not see any structure of the orion nebula

used stellarium simulator

tried to reproduce what i can see

just with a bit more fuzz in the middle section

(irl)

idk if its because my binos are only 50mm

i sure hope so

[old hinge]

Some moon shots, with a Samsung Galaxy Note20 and 8" dob

[real cloud]

Galaxy with a galaxy phone
(a reprocess)

[unborn loom]

I would guess thin clouds

Were at the sky

[floral marlin]

nope I tried to see it multiple times

fully clear sky

i could see Andromeda just fine

[unborn loom]

Was it low in horizon

Because if you can see andromeda why wouldn't you see orion

I can even see fuzz in bortle 6

With 42mm binos

[floral marlin]

not low in the horizon either

this is how it usually is when I go out

[spare ravine]

got this image with my phone and 6" newton telescope

looks ok I think ://

[dense holly]

I'll try it tonight

[floral marlin]

what app is this?

[dense holly]

SkEye

[versed crow]

Should I edit this or leave it as it is?

[potent hazel]

Are you sure you’re in B2? I can see structure with Binos in B7

[floral marlin]

yeah

[floral marlin]

why does everything get fixed once I start complaining about it

quick edit

[white kraken]

This is what I was able to get out of 200x32s subs with my xiaomi redmi 7

[arctic lark]

this was 8 years ago will of changed to bortle 3 probably

[floral marlin]

probably not since there's barely any development around here

and the "8 years ago" just broke me omg I feel like im still in 2020 fr

[solemn spindle]

Comet c/2022 e3 ztf with an iphone 11

[dark lance]

Just a filter for M42, think it works out pretty well.

[dense holly]

My first footage of mars, also my first ever astrovideo

[opaque spear]

If u lower exposure lightly on pro mode on ur phone cam u might see the color of mars instead of a white dot 👍

[versed crow]

how is this image?

[versed crow]

this is stacked image of orion.

[unborn loom]

Can't see tifs

[versed crow]

Ok

[versed crow]

try this image

[muted sedge]

Can anyone confirm if the circled object in the image is C/2022 E3 (ZTF)?

[unborn loom]

U edited that orion in?

And you have a lot of vignetting

And the image is green

[versed crow]

Yes

[versed crow]

So to remove that what should I do?

[unborn loom]

I would try backround extracrion in siril

[versed crow]

Ok thank you I'll try that and post it again for the results.

[fading bobcat]

Took it Saturday

If yall got tips, pls help cause I want better photos

On my 130eq newtonian.

Photo taken with Samsung galaxy s20 fe, 1sec exposure with 1600 iso.

Edited in Adobe lightroom on my phone

[patent zodiac]

If you dont have a tracker hand track it, take a lot of 1 sec exposures and stack them ( you gave to take darks, flats and lights type of photo in raw format ) when you stacked the picture you can edit it in lightroom or gimp...

Anyone correct me if i missed something

[fading bobcat]

I manually track them yep! It's tiring but trying to get good enough for it to be 100% worth it!

My issues though is I can't stack well on dss

Also trying to learn to use photoshop

[patent zodiac]

Can you tell me the problem (i rarely use dss so i dont know that much )

[fading bobcat]

It only stacks 1 frame

[patent zodiac]

Ummm wait a minute

[unborn loom]

I heard many people have that issue but i actually don't know the fix to it

[fading bobcat]

Think my images are off

[patent zodiac]

ohhh yeah

[fading bobcat]

They could be trailing, so lower exposure

[patent zodiac]

did you check all the pics in dss

[fading bobcat]

Yes, most look good, others I remove

Most look like the image I posted above

[patent zodiac]

ok, lemme think

[unborn loom]

"Check all" box

[fading bobcat]

Yep

[unborn loom]

U had it checked?

[fading bobcat]

Yeah

[unborn loom]

Oh ok

[fading bobcat]

Just my images are off I think

[unborn loom]

Could be

[patent zodiac]

nahh when my pictures were off it still stacked them

[fading bobcat]

Idk

[unborn loom]

Dss doesn't like trailed stars

[patent zodiac]

did you press "stack checked pictures"

[fading bobcat]

Yes

It isn't my pc right?

[patent zodiac]

NAhh it cant bee

be

[fading bobcat]

Ok

So I just need to find a better way to get good images

I also think my phone cam creates a lot of noise, compared to others.

Doesn't help I can only take darks with the lights

[wanton plinth]

this is with iphone 13 on 30sec exposure

[fading bobcat]

So should I go down on my exposure time?

[wanton plinth]

my awnser is idk

oh you can see while i was taking picture of the m42

its kinda deformed when its turning

[wanton plinth]

prob down to 10 sec

[fading bobcat]

It was 1 second exposures.

[wanton plinth]

oh.

[fading bobcat]

[wanton plinth]

mine was 30 sec :DDD

[fading bobcat]

I can actually take 10 sec exposures

[wanton plinth]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/873888728848936960/1074823027763712120/ezgif.com-gif-maker.gif

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/856206875426291732/1074832564059127858/ezgif.com-gif-maker_1.gif

no tracker momento

[versed crow]

Re-edited the image

[wanton plinth]

@worn cloud

[magic abyss]

got to process it, but my phone's lens has a ton of chromatic aberration so i had to crop out a bunch, to the right there's a lot of distortion but that's because i wanted to keep the cross in frame

[magic abyss]

i also caught a bit of lmc but that's cropped out

[unborn loom]

Unfocused rip

[magic abyss]

[spare ravine]

got this image with a 6" newt and my p30 lite phone. I used a 3x digital zoom. Stacked 20% from 6000 frames. Looks ok in my opinion

[magic abyss]

hi, does anyone know how to turn off the compress dng and vignette options in motioncam pc? i can't hit the square, it doesn't deselect

it's really messing my stacking

[tired otter]

I took this a few nights ago. Any tips?

[strong bane]

Stack images

[sleek agate]

make the background less blue

[tired otter]

How do I do that

Still a noob at this

Made it somewhat lighter. I don't think I can do more since the image first came out in a shade of blue

[tired otter]

How bout this?

[sleek agate]

do you have siril or GIMP

in laptop

or snapseed/lightroom in mobile ?

[strong bane]

Take multiple pictures while using a tripod and add them into a app called deep sky stacker.(you’ll need a laptop/desktop computer for this) there will be a option to stack the images. If you’re taking untracked photos I’d recommend taking shorter exposures of 1-20 pictures. You will have to play around with the exposure time a bit to get a picture without trailing. You can use an app on your phone called nightcap camera as a intervalometer. If you don’t want to stack images you can just try taking a 30s night mode photo. After you stack/use night mode you can use picture editing software to bring out quality and color in your photo. I use photoshop and Lightroom to edit my photos. Post processing makes a huge difference in your photo quality

[finite briar]

Made with small tripod and iPhone 12 . stacked with dss can’t remember the exposure time and how much of calibration frames i took

[wide spire]

Phone astrophotography isnt that bad xD

[solemn spindle]

Went to a bortle 4 and got this with my iPhone 11

[spare ravine]

stacked?

[spare ravine]

what telescope do you have?

[solemn spindle]

Skywatcher 150p

[solemn spindle]

Yes

[spare ravine]

tracked?

[solemn spindle]

No

[spare ravine]

how many seconds did you take

[solemn spindle]

About 100 seconds integration time with 1 second exposures

[spare ravine]

raw?

[solemn spindle]

Yes

[spare ravine]

ok, thanks!

[spice gale]

Samsung galaxy A 52s

[strong bane]

iPhone 13 night mode 30 sec exposure (non stacked photo of the side of the milky way opposite of the galactic core)

[dense holly]

Got the orion nebula tonight

[magic abyss]

a quick test on carina nebula using motion cam for the first time (this stack is 1/5th of all the data i got tonight!! but it'll take like 3 hours of integration so i'll post it tomorrow)

[strong bane]

iPhone 13 30s night mode

[magic abyss]

full stack, had to do some janky stuff because a 2/10ths of my data was failing to stack (managed to save it tho). i realizei was leaving out in most frames the left side of the nebula so i'll dump this data and re take it tonight

[prime locust]

I got this with my phone