Phone Astrophotography

[prime locust]

And this

And this

[hexed belfry]

If people are posting images of Astrophotography with phone might as well post my images

[chilly vessel]

nice

[dense holly]

Some tips for phone ap? (Using a samsung a53)

[worn cloud]

DeepSkyCamera Beta I used it before I got my DSLR also on an a53 and it works pretty good

These were from november 2022 when I Just got in to astrophotography

[dense holly]

And of i use it with a telescope? I dont have a tripod

[worn cloud]

Oh i Just used it for taking exposures up to 30 seconds

I also didnt have a tripod back then i just put my phone down on a chair

[dense holly]

Ok, maybe i should try it tonight

[dense holly]

But does it works on a scope?@worn cloud

[worn cloud]

Of course why wouldnt it

[dense holly]

Tonighti'll try it lol

[edgy talon]

rocks are fun too smh

[dense holly]

Well, i did't test it tonight but tomorrow i'll do it 💀👍

[bronze jackal]

A light polluted milky way attempt, there is literally a lamp post right where the milky way is, the glare made it barely visible 😔

When i get a tripod i'll go somewhere darker, for now i have to make do with finding the few convenient places i have to balance my phone

[solemn spindle]

47 tucanae

[solemn spindle]

No i meant to send this one

[elder birch]

Nice!
What scope and phone?

[solemn spindle]

Skywatcher 150p and iphone 11

[chilly vessel]

Very nice

[quasi ivy]

nice

[gilded relic]

The re-edit of my Saturn, Jupiter- Orion nebula pictures

And also my latest picture of the Moon

But

I ask for help guys

[gilded relic]

I have done too much of lense correction in the Saturn picture can some one fix it for me please?

[gilded relic]

Have you used any dark , bias or flat frames?

[white kraken]

yes

[brave jasper]

So visiting my old man tbjs weekend and clear skies came over couldn't bring my telescope but this is what I got with my phone. Any good?

[neat pond]

Can anyone tell me how to remove these things from my pictures? This happens to me every time I shoot images in RAW.
When I try to edit them then it does these horrible things.

[bleak niche]

you have to stack with kappa sigma

[neat pond]

I did it

[bronze jackal]

Jupiter and venus in the daylight

[bronze jackal]

discord image compression says nope

[dense holly]

Jupiter's sleeping or something

[bronze jackal]

Mediocre pic from a few days ago because samsungs built in astrophotography mode is rather inconsistent

[magic abyss]

i am happy to announce i managed to shoot the right target (c77) and did not waste 33mins of manual tracking data, this is my first galaxy image and it's only a 3minute test. tomorrow i'll do the full stack 🙏🙏

(of course left is my image, right one is to show it's the same object)

[spice peak]

Oh wow

[neat pond]

Is there anyone who would know?

[magic abyss]

i'm guessing that's noise? maybe taking darks and bias frames might help

[neat pond]

I used bias and dark frames

[potent hazel]

then you used them wrong, dark frames should remove that

but dss kappa-sigma clipping stacking removes them anyway

[magic abyss]

maybe that's being caused by them, try without

[neat pond]

OK, thanks

It worked, it turned out that my bias and dark frames were bad

Thanks

[magic abyss]

[magic abyss]

after like 5 hours of struggling with stacking and deleting all my games so i could have enough space for the integration here it is, 25.5 minutes worth of data in 1s subs. Caldwell 77, Centaurus A

and here's a cooked snapseed edit

and a tad softer edit

@feral sedge you asked for it

[feral sedge]

FINALLY

Asked for what?

I don't remember

I don't know if this is good or not, but

Great Orion Nebula with my phone, Motorola E7 plus, no tracker, 12 seconds expose. No tracker

[wind spoke]

[magic abyss]

you asked me to show you

the result

[feral sedge]

Ahhh

Right

Looks good

[neat pond]

Orion nebula
It's edited but I only have 10 minutes of integration time... I think more data (something like 3 hours) would give me a much better result
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1utrpo5hxbzyyut/OrionNebula.tif?dl=0

[spare ravine]

got this image today, looking good I might say :))

[solemn spindle]

Flame nebula with iphone 11, skywatcher 150p, stacked with siril

[dense holly]

Some blurry random moon craters (first time doing moon lol)

[spice peak]

I feel like 12 seconds would cause a bit of movement when untracked

[potent hazel]

Well clearly it didn’t

Most likely it was a bunch of shorter exposures stacked which adds up to 12 seconds

[feral sedge]

Uhh, no, i was moving the telescope so i can contradict the earth rotation

[potent hazel]

That also works

Oh wait does your telescope have a manual eq mount

[feral sedge]

Yes

[potent hazel]

That explains it. Not a very common method, props for making it work

[feral sedge]

Thx

[spice peak]

That was unexpected

[feral sedge]

It's not easy tho

[feral sedge]

Carina nebula, don't remember how much seconds tho

[terse smelt]

What planet is this?

[feral sedge]

Bird-927

[solemn spindle]

Orion nebula with iphone 11 and skywatcher 150p

[silk gust]

Man, that’s amazing! How did you manage to take that?

Was it through the default camera app and stacking?

[solemn spindle]

i used a third party camera app and stacked with siril

[silk gust]

Do you mind letting me know what settings you used and the app? I’ve been searching forever to find a decent one

[solemn spindle]

I used lightroom mobile, shot at ISO 1600 and 1 second shutter speed. I took about 300 pictures.

[silk gust]

oh wow, thats insane

congrats on the work though, looks amazing

phones just keep getting better and better

[silk gust]

do you mind telling me how you managed to stack the photos using siril? if you want to ofc? I tried and only got errors after errors

[solemn spindle]

If global star registration isn’t working, you might want to try 1 star registration or 2/3 stars registration

[silk gust]

did you use the DNG files or JPG from lightroom

[solemn spindle]

I shot with dng but they were converted to jpg during export

I’m not sure why but raw images don’t work in siril for me

[silk gust]

that might be my issue then

ill try comvert them to jpg and try again

did you crop out the lens bprder in your image?

[solemn spindle]

Yes

[silk gust]

i might give deepskystacker a shot=, even though it does perform slighlt worse until i go outside again tonight an get some new images

i might also just reinstall siril

[solemn spindle]

Sequator is a very easy program to use

[silk gust]

i think i used a 1000 iso which i think was too low

in hindsight

thats what one of my shots ended up like

im not sure why its massive either

[solemn spindle]

Have you tried playing around with the radius settings in dynamic psf?

[silk gust]

yeah i tried to turn it up a bit and the down, but it didnt change anything

[solemn spindle]

Oh okay

[silk gust]

thanks for the help though, appreciate it!

[silk gust]

Something cool, found an app that stacks multiple exposures after taking them with some basic built in editing tools.

That’s 2.5 minutes of Orion untracked

[elder birch]

Is this from AstroShader?
…I only ask as the white balance looks off (I set the default wrong in the last release 🤦‍♂️)

If it is AS try changing WB to around 4500

[silk gust]

Hmm, I’ll try that, and yes it is

[silk gust]

Is there any way to pause the exposures and unpause so I can move my telescope without having unfocused frames?

[gilded relic]

Alright guys
Here's my newest image of Orion nebula again but this is my second try .

21 frames stacked ,exposure 15 seconds, ISO 2000 and processed in Deep Sky Stacker and lightroom, and Ps .

[neat pond]

Could you also post the autosave from DeepSkyStacker?

[gilded relic]

Sure

I did some cool things with this

As you see I also used my pervious data on this one for the Orion it self

Had to change it a little so I could use the button part of it

Also used healing

[neat pond]

I originally thought you used some noisereduction methods, well I see that even the autosave is how to say it a bit out of focus or blurry. I mean the stars look good but the nebula is a bit blurry. Do you know what it could be ?

[gilded relic]

One of the raw pictures

[silk gust]

Was this tracked?

[gilded relic]

Yes

[silk gust]

im buying this ytoday for my eq1, does it vibrate much?

[elder birch]

No. But that is a great idea. I’ll add that at some point in the next few weeks

[floral marlin]

orion through my binos

single exposure

i need to try stacking this is mid af

[solemn spindle]

Carina with iphone 11 and skywatcher 150p

[chilly vessel]

Damn

[versed crow]

What's the exposure time?

[vocal bridge]

Samsung S23 Ultra
Astrophotgraphy mode Exposure of 4 mins cause i was freezing to death outside

[magic abyss]

subs?

[solemn spindle]

700 1 second subs

[solemn spindle]

700 1 second subs

[magic abyss]

[fading bobcat]

Was my first photo through a telescope almost a year ago. Kinda crazy to think I'll be getting a really good setup in the next few months to come!

Btw, it was a really cheap kids telescope

[magic abyss]

hohohoho better processing 🙏🙏🙏

[silk gust]

Do you manually press the shutter button every time? Or do you have some way to automate it?

[solemn spindle]

Yes but i connected earphone and used the volume buttons to take photos so the phone doesnt shake

[silk gust]

THATS GENIUS

i didn’t even think of that!!

[gilded relic]

Unfortunately I don't have time to go for any kinds of observation or etc

Because I'm in exams week or otherwise I just have too much homework to do but Herr the new year's coming, the year of 1402

So I'm having three weeks off so till the next Monday I got to study hard for these exams.

[unborn loom]

Autoclicker

[silk gust]

Can’t really get that running on an iPhone

[magic abyss]

I think you can use motion cam on iphone

[silk gust]

motion cam?

[unborn loom]

Ios being ios

[silk gust]

exactly haha, still prefer it tho

[solemn spindle]

omega centauri with iphone 11 and skywatcher 150p. only about 80 seconds integration

[silk gust]

Man, your photos are always amazing! Do you have any tips or insight on how you go about things?

[unborn loom]

Key is to stack

[white kraken]

not sure if I posted this here already or not, orion with my xiaomi redmi 7 and skywatcher 200p about 2h of data

[solemn spindle]

Not just stacking but also processing and experimenting, play around with different settings until you get an image you like

@silk gust you mind if you share your data and I have a go stacking it?

[silk gust]

I uploaded it on the data processing section too

https://discord.com/channels/794642864218439681/1083782795597463624

There it id

Is*

[solemn spindle]

heres what I was able to get

Just fixed the blown core and added some noise reductiom

[silk gust]

That’s better than I could do!

How do you manage to pull so much out?

Is there any settings or apps I don’t know of?

I managed to get some other help from someone else server too, and managed to get this

[magic abyss]

i'm no expert on this but i think it's a bit clipped, on the bottom right it shows a bit

godd job tho

[solemn spindle]

asinh transformation in siril helps a little

i also did a little post processing in lightroom mobil3

also saturated the image a little to bring out some more colour

[solemn spindle]

Flame nebula

[solemn spindle]

Was it visible in a single sub?

[sly hearth]

Orion in an inner city sky 😭

I don't have any fancy pants electronics just me telescope and me phone

[magic abyss]

Barely, I knew the object was somewhere around where I was looking and I thought I could see some very fain nebulosity so I took my shot

[solemn spindle]

Composite moon with old data.

[white kraken]

how do you fix the blown core? its something Im having many issues with

[solemn spindle]

in lightroom mobile, there is a setting for highlights, i turned it down and it fixed it

[white kraken]

I see, seems simpler than I thought

still learning how to make it work and I think that I've overedited it but the core isn't as overexposed

[silk gust]

I did some more Lightroom in my spare time to change the highlights

[silk gust]

That looks amazing! Nice work though!

Forgot to denoise

[white kraken]

I'm always surprised by how much people are able to get the blues out of orion, I try but it just doesn't work out for me, I know its mostly Ha but I like the more blue/purple orions

[silk gust]

Yeah, I always try to pull the reds out but my iPhone 12 just doesn’t want to haha

[white kraken]

wanna switch phones 😄

[white kraken]

also I'm in a mood to edit these images, mind sending me yours?

[silk gust]

I’ve got the original FIT file I think

That was my take on yours

[white kraken]

damn that looks sick

[silk gust]

Wait, that’s the original I think

But the fit file is https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15jMPrXXAMZMQqAT-B2x8ysu7Rs0v3R24?usp=share_link

[white kraken]

idk why but ps doesn't want to accept the file and no converter works on it

[silk gust]

It’s from siril when I stacked it

I might have the tif file somewhere

There we go

It’s sending

[solemn spindle]

Rate my orion

[silk gust]

Absolutely stunning, numbers can’t describe it’s beauty

[cyan cairn]

That... looks like the north american nebula, still pretty good!

[spare ravine]

Guys whats a good app for deep sky, lightroom crashes when in put 1 sec of exposure

[white kraken]

this is what I got out of it

[spare ravine]

what app do u use for deepsky?

Lightroom doesnt work for me because when I put the exposure to 1 sec in crashes

[white kraken]

try astrocam, it worked great for me

[feral sedge]

Doesn't appear

[solemn spindle]

You can also try fotorgear, but sometimes the image doesnt save

[gilded relic]

Guys I highly recommend you all using Picenlarger

Just search this

It higher the num of pixels using AI but It won't enhance the resolution after enlarging but you can get even more details with editing this enlarged picture.

[magic abyss]

[wind spoke]

P h o n e

[lunar elm]

[magic abyss]

Little heritage doing some work

[muted sedge]

Wait. It actually takes the load?

[magic abyss]

Yep

[white kraken]

been trying out hdr orion and I think that this came out pretty good!

[chilly vessel]

Mostly b7 or 9

Context: Glob in 1st photo is M4

[strong bane]

Orion right after sundown

[lunar elm]

What phone are you using?

[strong bane]

Iphone 13

[lunar elm]

Nice

Did you know you can set your pictures to raw by setting it in settings?

With that, you can take multiple pictures of a, let’s say, constellation and get much better results after stacking and processing

That’s how most people take their, let’s say, nebula images with just a phone

[strong bane]

Wish I could, only the pro version of the iphone 13 can take raw photos

Getting my first dslr in a few months though

[potent hazel]

you can get an app to do it

[strong bane]

what apps would you recommend?

[potent hazel]

astroshader is good for astro specific stuff, it also has live stacking built in. the dev is here too so you can ask them questions directly. fotogear is also good, it will give you better control but no stacking

[strong bane]

i'll try them out tonight. should be some clear skies for a couple hours, thank you

[feral sedge]

first stacked photo of orion neb with my phone, i don't know how much seconds tho-

[silk gust]

I second this, devs active too. Amazing option in all regards for an effective (free) app

[lunar elm]

Oh nice

[strong bane]

https://streamable.com/y7q6ad

[unborn loom]

Nice

Could make it brighter

[strong bane]

That’s as bright as I can get it. 11,686 1 second exposures, bortle 3

[unborn loom]

Why 1 sec

11k is crazy

[strong bane]

All the pictures are combined and the final file size is only about 100mb

I know there's alternatives but I use skyflow for the convenience

[elder birch]

Pleiades with a bit of nebulosity coming trough. Re-edit from Jan + the rig, deconstructed

iPhone + adapter + Joby phone tripod + 8x32 monocular
1s x250 exposures (4mins 10s total) ISO 3000

[dawn hemlock]

https://youtu.be/EKYJ-gwGLXQ I just saw this, idk how many have seen this here but it could be kind of a problematic for some Samsung users that have used that feature for moon photos in the past in case you posted or framed them or something

[feral sedge]

Hasn't that been denied already?

[dawn hemlock]

By Samsung or the public? I’m not really caught up on this stuff too much besides that video and the original Reddit post. I should probably do some more research into it

[feral sedge]

I don't know, I'm with friends now so, can't search lol

[gilded relic]

I also tried that

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1019760880231125132/1086363685053792368/PSX_20230315_110531_1-01-01.jpg

This was a test of how cool the s21 ultra is
This is only from the camera of it with 30 times zoom if I zoomed any more I couldn't get the full disk of it
28 pictures stacked

[dawn hemlock]

Hmm then it may only be on newer phones but idrk

[chilly vessel]

This was with my s21 phone

1 frame

[dawn hemlock]

Hmm those craters on the side near where it stops being illuminated look a bit too detailed compared to the rest but then again it’s hard to tell

[chilly vessel]

I just took a shot

I don't usually get detail-less photos of the moon

[edgy talon]

the terminator line reveals the most craters

[unborn loom]

Yes samsung uses AI to make the moon better

And no it does not take an image online and slap it to the screen

It's still a cool feature tho, something that apples doesn't have

[spice gale]

10 sec exposure, bortle 6, Samsung Galaxi A52s

[strong bane]

30s exposure, IPhone 13, b3

[dense holly]

Just a chair with orion constelation behind

[white kraken]

my quick 5min edit of 70mins on the rosette nebula, doesn't look the greatest but I'm happy that I got some dust pillars there on the bottom

[heady lark]

Celestron firstscope +iPhone

[vocal bridge]

Samsung S23 ultra + Expert Raw ( Bortle level was 7 )

[cunning anvil]

Nope, mkbhd made a video as well going in depth.

[formal notch]

here is orion with a 50$frac and a old android phone (integration time is approx 5mins)

[unborn loom]

Seems unfocused

[formal notch]

yes ill try to focus it next time

[muted sedge]

Hey there! I recently went to a Bortle 4 to capture some images. Can anyone tell me what those weird "boundaries" are in the images? How do I remove them? I've tried SiriL's background extraction.

[unborn loom]

I think these might be because you moved ur camera

[vocal bridge]

Or might be light

cause this happened to my pics to

I was in bortle 7

[unborn loom]

No light will not cause that

[vocal bridge]

Oh my bad

[unborn loom]

It looks like it's the framing

[unborn loom]

Np

[strong bane]

Were you shooting through a window? It looks like it might be a reflection of your room

[unborn loom]

Doesn't really look like it

[strong bane]

iPhone 13, 30 second exposures in bortle 3 skies. These are by far some of my favorite pictures I have taken with my phone

Can’t wait for my a6000 to be delivered

[arctic lark]

Back in bortle 2

[muted sedge]

Nope! But I think I changed the camera orientation a few times. Might have something to do with that.

[unborn loom]

Yeah it's that then. Don't move ur camera

[dreamy stone]

Hey, im really new to astrophotography with my s20 fe. Anyone have tips? I live in a bortle 5 area and to the naked eye the sky has lots of stars but no colors(its black). Also I don't have a phone tripod yet which makes things difficult.

[unborn loom]

Learn how exposure time and iso works. Nail ur focus. Test around. Then just take many shots of an object and stack. You can set ur phone on something

[dreamy stone]

what app(s) can I use on my phone for stacking

[strong bane]

AstroShader, NightCap Camera, and Skyflow are what I use

[dreamy stone]

ty

ill probably get a phone tripod adapter

bc I have a tripod, I just don't have anything to hold my phone

[dreamy stone]

are any of those for android

i can't find them on the playstore

[strong bane]

Not sure

[unborn loom]

Windows

[strong bane]

https://i.imgur.com/2Cy0prh.jpg

Iphone 13
5 Hours integration
Nightcap app
Bortle 3

[vocal bridge]

If thats wires make sure you shoot somewhere where there are no wires if they are stars my bad

[potent hazel]

i think thats airplanes or satellite trails or something similar

[vocal bridge]

minecrafts beautifull

[potent hazel]

did you mean to post this in general? this is not a phone, or astrophotography

[dreamy stone]

what bortle would minecraft be

[vocal bridge]

4 or 5 idk

Yep bortle 6 or 5

[strong bane]

I live in the middle of a forest lol, those aren’t wires

they’re a mix of planes, shooting stars, and satellites

They’re unavoidable when exposing for several hours

[vocal bridge]

ok

[unborn loom]

Dss might remove some

Maybw

[strong bane]

Can't use dss for that style of star trail photo, it's just one long photo created by nightcap. Not individual exposures that I can extract and edit

[unborn loom]

Oh it's 1 photo? What

How long is that

[strong bane]

About 5 hours

[unborn loom]

Exposure time 5 hours?

[strong bane]

Yes

[unborn loom]

Interesting

[strong bane]

Nightcap handles everything. You can watch the star trails form as time goes on. It’s convenient because you don’t have to do any manual work lol

[unborn loom]

Nightcap is on another level

[strong bane]

Yeah but unfortunately it’s not free

[unborn loom]

Which bortle you live at?

[strong bane]

Bortle 3

[unborn loom]

Milkyway is pretty nice there

[strong bane]

Yeah definitely, just have to wait for milkyway season though

can only see the outskirts of the milkyway atm

[unborn loom]

What lattitude you live at?

[strong bane]

45.8

[unborn loom]

Thats pretty good compared to 59

The core barely rises or is in the horizon

I once went to a bortle 1 sky

[strong bane]

There's some bortle 2 skies in tillamook state forest near me but I'd have to drive for 4 hours to get to anywhere darker lol

I started my astrophotography journey in november so I really havent payed much attention to the milkyway before

Just 3 more months until its in season

[unborn loom]

Can't wait

[strong bane]

I should have my astro imaging setup by then aswell

[unborn loom]

I would need a tracker

Cuz i'm gonna buy a lens for day time and use it for astro too

The lens is gonna eat all of my money

😢

[strong bane]

story of astrophotography

cheap and expensive get a whole new meaning when you start lol

[twin hazel]

Do I need a lower or higher iso setting in a high bortle area?

[daring thunder]

The moon from my Celestron Astro master 130 20mm eyepiece (im pretty new)

[arctic lark]

Shitty flame neb pic

[edgy talon]

atleast you got it

[ashen shore]

Orion Nebula from bortle 7-8, 130/1s Frames stacked in DSS

[unborn loom]

Lower

[dreamy stone]

question, I was testing out my phones camera in a dark room with 30 second exposure and 640 iso. The pictures had stars in them when obv there weren't any. very weird. Does the ai/processing really do that much??

this is kinda what i mean

[arctic lark]

Thats noise lol

[twin hazel]

Alright

[arctic lark]

The w

Another flam

[unborn loom]

No

[formal notch]

@dreamy stone what brotle u in?

[deep oyster]

Note One Plus Pro. I used the 5 sec delay timer and lay the phone on my hat on the ground. 10 sec at low-ish iso.

[wind spoke]

How didn't I post this in here

Starless Orion with my phone from b7

8 hours integration

And a very bad milkyway too

From b7 aswell

I am never doing phone AP ever again

[dreamy stone]

5

[twin hazel]

is nightcap an app?

[unborn loom]

For iphones yes

[twin hazel]

ah i see

[lunar elm]

It’s really good though, for a phone, that’s really cool

And I mean it

[elder birch]

Orion Nebula + Running man re-edit with calibration approximator.

iPhone13 + monocular + Joby phone stand
150 x1s exposures, ISO 2000

[arctic lark]

Nice

Aurora last night

[bronze jackal]

M13 in the center, samsung S22 ultra

[dense holly]

A orion constelation widefield with a bit of processing (samsung a53)

[strong bane]

This is my very first moon photo, taken with my phone & binoculars, held by hand

Getting my first real camera in a few days, going to compare this awful photo to all my future moon photos

[soft island]

I'm sorry but no its not visible at all

I see where you think it is but thats not it

it's much further out almost on the edge of the rings

here's my shot (not on a phone, with a nikon p1000)

[chilly vessel]

isn't the p1000 is the dslr with a shit ton of magnification?

if so that's a great pic

[soft island]

YESSIR

[soft island]

thx

I do not recommend the P1000 even though I'm usually known as the P1000 guy because for the years that I had it I was able to take diffraction-limited planetary pictures at 77mm of aperture like this one, thing is the sensor is way too small and while that gives you a lot of zoom it basically means u youre trying to shoot something very far away I would go for any dslr especially given the 1200$ price tag, good camera for big zooms but certainly not an everyday camera

[potent hazel]

yup. p1000 is a weird place where its good if you have it, but you shouldnt buy it for planetary because you could get an 8" dob and uranus c for the same price and that would obviously massively outperform it

[white kraken]

planning on shooting m81 tonight but am not sure if I should use a 2x barlow because thatll only make it dimmer, but Im gonna have like 2.5h of data so idk if thatll compensate for having a narrower fov?

[unborn loom]

With a phone?

You should probably ask this in #🤓-ask-a-nerd

I think you should shoot without

[quasi acorn]

I've shown this here before, but I've learned alot since then (some editing, and I got an actual editing software now instead of the Android picture editor).
Taken in Senja, Norway

Also Aurora because Norway and stuff

[wind spoke]

pretty good picture bro

[quasi acorn]

Thank you! Started out with this

[wind spoke]

pretty noice

which phoen you're using

[quasi acorn]

Xiaomi POCO F2 Pro

[wind spoke]

ohh

pretty nice pictures compared to it

[quasi acorn]

It has an option specifically for astrophotography

[wind spoke]

wow ccol

[wind spoke]

i wish it was same with my phone

i have got an iphone 7

[quasi acorn]

Oof, I hear they aren't the greatest at astrophotography?

[wind spoke]

worst

they're the worst

[quasi acorn]

Dang

[wind spoke]

only the brightest stars are visible

[quasi acorn]

Yeah, isn't the max shutter speed on that like 15s?

[wind spoke]

yeah

my brother's xiaomi note 7 has like 32secs

[quasi acorn]

Ooh very nice

[wind spoke]

i envy it

[wind spoke]

i call him over that time

[quasi acorn]

Oh btw, am I allowed to share none astrophotography pictures or is that against the rules? I'm putting them up at a "talent show" and I wanna get some critisism.

[wind spoke]

it says no plagiarism in rules though

[quasi acorn]

Whats that? English is my second language

[wind spoke]

we do it a lot in school assignments

like wikipedia

now you get it

[quasi acorn]

Oh, so like copying from others?

[wind spoke]

yes

[quasi acorn]

Does critisim count as plagiarism?

[wind spoke]

nah

[quasi acorn]

Whats the problem then?

[wind spoke]

you want to show your pictures right?

[quasi acorn]

Yeah?

[wind spoke]

totally you can do it

[quasi acorn]

So I'm allowed to?

[wind spoke]

yes

you can send these pictures in #📸-photography

ok

[quasi acorn]

I don't see that anywhere

[unborn loom]

You need leisure role

[wind spoke]

leisure roles

[unborn loom]

Add that from #roles

[quasi acorn]

How do I get that?

Oh

[unborn loom]

Channels and roles

[quasi acorn]

I don't see #roles either 😭

[unborn loom]

#channels and roles

[quasi acorn]

Oh there

[vocal bridge]

Samsung S23 ultra expert raw 2 mins exposure

[dreamy stone]

is it possible to get good pictures in a bortle 5 area with my s20 fe

when i look at the sky on a clear night i see lots of stars but everything else is p much black

i dont think i can even see the milky way

[heady lark]

should be possible but might be a bit harder

[dreamy stone]

how can it be possible?

what would I need to do to get good pics

[unborn loom]

Increase the exposure time and if needed, iso.

[dreamy stone]

i see

can the exposure capture things that the naked eye cant see

[unborn loom]

Yes

[dreamy stone]

ah

kinda hard to get pictures though, i dont have a phone mount compatible with my tripod

[unborn loom]

Be creative

[dreamy stone]

well i could set it on something but I will have trouble capturing stuff closer to the horizon bc theres a good amount of trees in the east, southwest, west, and north

theres just not alot of good opportunities for stuff near the horizon

[unborn loom]

Also in the future if you want even better pics, u gotta learn how to stack. You'll get pleasing images withouth stacking but stacking will help

[dreamy stone]

oh yeah

is there an easy way to take multiple pics without moving my phone if i have it set somewhere

burst shots dont work with long exposure sadly

[unborn loom]

On android theres an autoclicker

[dreamy stone]

oh

[unborn loom]

Or deepskycamera

[dreamy stone]

either that or i use the voice thing to take pictures

that's tedious though

i think i might have tried deepskycamera

i dont remember it being very user friendly

[unborn loom]

Oh alr

Well autocliker is good

[dreamy stone]

just downloaded it, is the exposure time in seconds?

wait actually

i see exposure time twice?

also how do i choose how many pictures i want it to take

and above the camera button, which type should i use

[magic abyss]

the top one is preview exposure, bottom one is capture exposure

i mean, top one is liveview

[dreamy stone]

ohh ty

yeah i wish the app had a better layout

[magic abyss]

the most anoying thing is setting the directory

and it also has like 4 seconds of dead time between pictures

for long exposures it's nothing

but for 1s ones it's a pain

[dreamy stone]

oh

is it better to just use the stock camera app then

[magic abyss]

for that issue i prefer motion cam. worse interface and you need a pc program to decompress the files but it only has .5 seconds of dead time

[magic abyss]

not really, all your images are saved in the default locations and you have to hit the shutter button

if you're doing widefield the stock or astrocam are better

but if you're using a telescope then i've found motion cam to be better

just because it's faster if you don't have tracking

but keep astrocam, it's good for taking calibration frames

[dreamy stone]

i don't have a telescope

[edgy talon]

i can probably help you find one

[magic abyss]

i would use the astro app then, you can set the storage folder and take calibration frames with 1 button

[dreamy stone]

it wasn't astrocam i was using, its deepskycamera

[magic abyss]

that one

[dreamy stone]

astrocam crashes when i try opening it

[magic abyss]

i forgor the name

[edgy talon]

yeah it does for me too i installed it while you guys was talking about it

[dreamy stone]

how many images do you recommend stacking btw

[magic abyss]

as many as you can

but if you're doing untracked it'll take a bunch of trial and error as i don't have much advice to give you

i once had this huge stacking aberration when doing a 30' stack

and i think it's because i wasn't tracking

[dreamy stone]

wdym by untracked

[magic abyss]

not following the sky

[dreamy stone]

oh

[unborn loom]

Slide the bottom

[dreamy stone]

ohhh

should 10 be the minimum amount i should stack?

[ember nebula]

These pictures haven't been stacked or had post processing but I want to know which one looks better.

More stars are revealed with higher screen brightness

I will be able to shoot through binoculars in about 2 weeks

[bronze jackal]

This was a 30 second exposure from bortle 5 with that phone

you can just about make out andromeda and the double cluster in there

[unborn loom]

Yes

[dreamy stone]

nice, is it able to capture the milky way at all?

also what's that line on the right

[bronze jackal]

i'd imagine from a single exposure no, if you were to stack quite a few it might just about

[dreamy stone]

ok

[bronze jackal]

but bortle 5 would be pushing it, i have an s22 ultra now and even 10 minutes couldn't see much (granted there was a lampost literally right where the milky way was at the time i took it)

[dreamy stone]

oh

[bronze jackal]

the line is just a telephone cable because i pointed my camera straight up it just got in the way

[dreamy stone]

ah ok

i don't really have street lights on my road

though there is like 1 or 2 lights from my neighbors

[bronze jackal]

This was the photo i was talking about, you can barely make out an increased density of stars along the middle going up but thats abiut it

the lampost is glaringly obvious (pun fully intended)

i might be going down to devon in august so im gonna take a tripod and hopefully get a better milky way shot

it will be a bortle 4 but looking south off the coast there will be no light in that direction at all

apart from maybe pesky boats

[dreamy stone]

nice

[unborn loom]

Yes it is, but bortle 5 is a bit high, it'll be visisble but not too good

[dreamy stone]

did you post this in r/GalaxyS20FE? it looks familiar for some reason, i feel like I've seen it before

[unborn loom]

That is from bortle 1 with my phone, 15 minutes of data

[dreamy stone]

ok

[bronze jackal]

no but i did put it in this thread a few weeks ago when i took it

[magic abyss]

this was one of my first astrophotos a whole year back, this is more closely to bortle 4 than 5 but it's a single 32s sub, you can kinda see dust

[dreamy stone]

nice

[magic abyss]

and on the bottom rigght you can clearly see LMC

[dreamy stone]

whats lmc stand for

[magic abyss]

large magellanic cloud

it's a satelite galaxy to ours

[dreamy stone]

oh

[solemn spindle]

Carina from yesterday

[lunar elm]

On a phone????!!?

[solemn spindle]

Yes

[heady lark]

fr

[lunar elm]

Damn

That’s insane, how’d you do it?

[solemn spindle]

Took around 1200 1 second exposures. I stacked with siril. Stacking for some reason distorted parts of the image so i processed multiple images and then combined the less distorted bits. Then i did some noise reduction and editing with lightroom.

[lunar elm]

You shot in raw?

[solemn spindle]

Yes

[lunar elm]

What phone?

[solemn spindle]

Iphone 11

[lunar elm]

Ahh okay

Nice image

[dreamy stone]

Are these stars or noise? This was taken with a 24 second exposure with 640 iso. Was testing different exposures from my window. I didn't see any stars with the naked eye

thats a cropped pic too btw

this is the original

[unborn loom]

These are stars yep

[dreamy stone]

do you know which stars they possibly are? I was facing south when i took that and i live in eastern canada

[white kraken]

A quick reprocess of my rosette nebula, not the greatest but Having actual flats would've helped a lot, anyone got any tips for taking flat frames with a phone?

[heady lark]

Put a white shirt over the telescope and get something that will emit white light and put it over

[dawn hemlock]

You phone users get even better every time I come back to this thread lol

[twin hazel]

Orion constellation taken in bortle 9

16 seconds exposure 25 iso

single frame

[dense holly]

Copernicus with a 60x900mm samsung a52

[dark lance]

Orion with iPhone

[wind spoke]

Tried moon with this new app i got,single handheld shot,pretty happy with it,cant wait to use it with my dob

[sturdy kiln]

What app?

[wind spoke]

Nightcap

[white kraken]

Bout to shoot Bode's galaxy tonight, any advice?

[sturdy kiln]

Cool thx

[white kraken]

My phone shot at bodes - 1h 25mins total intergration with some not very good data, I'm happy that you can see the spiral arms!

[wind spoke]

Looks great for a phone

[elder birch]

Waxing gibbous.
iPhone w/ AstroShader: x1 0.002s, ISO 34.
Skywatcher 130P.

[bronze jackal]

Venus and pleiades, Samsung S22 ultra, 7 minutes, bortle 5

[magic abyss]

oh wow nice job

could you see it in visual?

[dreamy stone]

how come theres no star trailing with 7 minutes of exposure time

[bronze jackal]

The astrophotography mode automatically stacks the subs

I think they were 6.5 seconds

[white kraken]

yes i could

[edgy talon]

stacking

apple does it too

[dreamy stone]

edited on my s20 fe, scene optimizer off

this is how it looks with scene optimizer on

[vocal bridge]

My back yard S23 Ultra Expert raw

[dreamy stone]

which stars are these

was testing gcam from my window

[frigid dove]

Got on my phone last year, single shot through a 130mm newt

[real spire]

@dreamy stone I'd really recommend you to get a used dslr

It's very cheap

And a 50 mm lens

You can probably find even better deals

[dawn hemlock]

No please no don’t get this

If you wanna get into astrophotography get a actual dslr

Like a canon

50mm lens would be good tho but only for Milky Way

[dawn hemlock]

Try using a star chart, it’s near impossible to tell from someone else’s perspective as we don’t know what bortle, what angle, what longitude, or what time it was shot at

Unless you just know constellations off the top of your head

But there just a lack of stars

[real spire]

Took this with 50 mm lens

Only 30 minutes integration time

[real spire]

I'm not talking about exactly the same thing I was taking generally about dslrs

[dreamy stone]

it was taken at 1:31am est last night, im in a bortle 5 area, was facing west, and i live in ontario, canada

heres another one i took, this time it was taken at 2:17am facing north

some of the stars have a bit of trailing which is weird as i would expect all of them to have some trailing

[real spire]

2:17 am? Then why is the sky blue

Like it's day

[dreamy stone]

idk? I just used gcams astro mode

[real spire]

That photo was taken at night?

[dreamy stone]

yes

[real spire]

Ain't no way

How

Even if I set my camera to highest iso and exposure the sky just turn white

[dreamy stone]

i have no idea lol

[real spire]

But anyways the you should probably not use the astro mode if it makes it look like it's day time

[dreamy stone]

i mean i do live in a bortle 5 area maybe thats why

[real spire]

That just makes the sky darker and the stars look brighter

[dreamy stone]

oh

[real spire]

@dreamy stone Just use pro mode on regular camera app set iso to 1600-3200 set exposure to 2-5 seconds

[dreamy stone]

2-5 seconds? shouldn't i be using 30 seconds with a lower iso

1600-3200 iso sounds like it will cause noise no?

[heady lark]

NOOOO

Worst possible idea ever

[heady lark]

Posting that image can be very misleading

Definitely a cannon camera like cannon 60d and a lens like a 50mm will do.

[real spire]

You have no star tracker so 30 seconds won't work

[dreamy stone]

oh

alr

btw for deepsky camera should i have the type set to darks?

[dreamy stone]

anyways i got a few decent shots

[bleak niche]

Yes it will. 15 seconds will probably barely trail. 30 will still be usable lmao. You aren’t shooting at 50mm

[bleak niche]

Lights

[dreamy stone]

ok

[real spire]

Oh yeah I kinda forgot that it's wide angle but still for optimal use he still shouldn't use 30 sec

[unborn loom]

You sent a bridge camera,?

[bleak niche]

That’s not even a bridge camera

That is a webcam in a plastic shell

I’m not even kidding

It’s a early 2000s point and shoot firmware

[dreamy stone]

another fairly decent image with a bit of editing

[dreamy stone]

besides Venus, Pleiades, and orion, what other stars/planets are visible in the images

[vapid ledge]

Took this with iPhone 14 pro max in Italy

Bortle 4

30 sec exposures on tripod

Curves and levels editing on Lightroom mobile

[neat flame]

My first pic of the orion nebula

[dreamy stone]

did some lightroom editing and these came out really good

[unborn loom]

Unfocused slightly

But nice

[dreamy stone]

yeah the first image was shot with 2x zoom, I should of used the 3x telephoto camera

[unborn loom]

Use pro mode and focus manually

[dreamy stone]

the first one was shot on gcams astro mode w/ auto focus

the second one was shot on pro mode with 30 second exposure and 1600 iso, and 0.7 manual focus

the second image originally looked like this

[ember nebula]

I'm planning on shooting the Orion nebula with my phone and binoculars, how many 5 second shots should I try to take?

[unborn loom]

I got like 15 mins of data

You can try to get the same amount

[ember nebula]

Alright

Thanks

[ember nebula]

What could I realistically expect my output to be like with 30 minutes of exposure time in a bortle 4 area?

[unborn loom]

This should be 15 mins

[dreamy stone]

taken at about 11:30pm facing directly up

[ember nebula]

Alright, I'm confused on grading the image though. Is there a basic summary of what I should be doing?

[ember nebula]

That looks pretty good

[dreamy stone]

ty

you can see part of ursa major in it

[ember nebula]

This is the best one I've gotten, I took it the day after a new moon, 6 second long exposure

Higher screen brightness reveals more but this photo hasn't been edited or graded or stacked at all

[patent zodiac]

Orion nebula with my 130/900 reflector 1.3s exposure 3200 iso and edited in lightroom (the biggest mistake i did was that i didn't shoot in RAW format💀)

And also this one with the same settings but the wobbles are from the wind

[dreamy stone]

whats the difference with the raw format exactly? is it easier to get more detail from it?

[ember nebula]

So I can't take photos of Andromeda or the Orion nebula, anything else I could shoot tonight from Utah that's achievable with my phone?

Along with my binoculars I have a spotting scope with up to 33x zoom

[ember nebula]

So I need help and tips for doing this, Tonight was my first night attempting to take some photos of the Orion nebula with my binoculars and phone so I was expecting issues but I wasn't expecting focusing the shot to be this difficult. Any tips or suggestions for that? I also was wondering if my shots are zoomed in enough to actually get detail in the photos.

Here's a screenshot of the RAW photo if you don't want to download it

[edgy talon]

M42 with a EQM-35i, 650/134 dogshit optics reflector and my phone

[patent zodiac]

In JPEG format it removes the detail and compresses the data so you wont get decent pictures in JPEG while in RAW it wont compress it and it wont be post processed ehn you take a picture so you will be able to get more detail with RAW.

[patent zodiac]

Its the wobbles

[dreamy stone]

oh I see, is it normal for raw images to have more noise though? I find that happens when I shoot in raw format

[patent zodiac]

Yes it is very normal

[dreamy stone]

ok

so I assume I remove the noise through editing in lightroom then right

[patent zodiac]

Now you can see the difference between raw and jpeg

The right one is RAW

[dreamy stone]

I see

how come the right one is more zoomed in though

[patent zodiac]

I cropped the picture

[dreamy stone]

oh

btw

since I started doing astrophotography, its crazy that I never realized how many stars were actually visible in my location(bortle 5)

can't imagine how it would look in a bortle 1 location

must be amazing

I especially didn't expect my phone to even capture Pleiades when I could hardly see it with the naked eye(then again idk if my eyes were fully adapted to the darkness)

[patent zodiac]

I live in bortle 4 and its awesome so you will be able to get some awesome picture with binoculars and phone

[patent zodiac]

I was in bortle 2 location once and it was bloody beautyful

[edgy talon]

M44

M81 and 82

[ember nebula]

Alright thanks!

[edgy talon]

you can see m81 and 82 through your spotting scope

[edgy talon]

one 10 sec sub of m81 and m82

[versed crow]

Bortle 1 some faint stars aren't visible in these images properly.

[dreamy stone]

nice

[unborn loom]

Bortle 1🧐

[gilded relic]

Guys one question

Has anyone in here done the horsehead Nebula?

[patent zodiac]

Are you for real???

[edgy talon]

yes i am

you can see

M3, M57, M42, M44, M45, M81-82, M31, M33

[elder birch]

I was on holiday in a B4 and had a go with my monocular plus phone super hacky rig 😅

Horsehead+Flame nebula: 250x 1s exposures, ISO 5000. iPhone13.

[gilded relic]

How is ISO 5000 possible?

[elder birch]

I just cranked it up. The max ISO is 7616 for the main camera on iPhone13 Pro

[gilded relic]

[elder birch]

Haha. Well with that equipment I didn’t have too many options

[patent zodiac]

you can also see the horsehead! Its awesome

[patent zodiac]

With the help of you guys i did it!
Sky watcher 130/900 eq2
8 second exposure
Hand tracked
3200iso edited in lightroom

[edgy talon]

that is nice

take more exposures now

thats around a hour of exposures

[edgy talon]

better reprocess

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1052383583337189386/1095831123319324753/image.png

[dreamy stone]

first time stacking an image in dss, how did I do? I stacked 17 4 second exposure light images and took the photo looking up at 11:32pm

the original raw images looked like this

[dreamy stone]

this was also edited in lightroom

[spice gale]

Much better stacked

[patent zodiac]

Yeah but i hand tracked it💀

[edgy talon]

i know what i said, take more and stack

[unborn loom]

... use a lower exposure time

[patent zodiac]

i will try

[patent zodiac]

with low exposure time there is no detail or sum so i will have to do hand tracked long exposures

[unborn loom]

No, thats the whole reason for stacking

You stack to get a better image

[patent zodiac]

but i will get a better image with higher exposure time and if i stack it the better result

the picture i took wasnt even stacked

[unborn loom]

Oh i understood ur message wrong then. I thought you meant earlier that it was hard to hand track

[patent zodiac]

i mean it is hard to match the earths rotation but i can manage it

[unborn loom]

Alr

[patent zodiac]

i can try other methonds but what works works

[unborn loom]

How long did it take you to get that image?

[patent zodiac]

somehow i managed to do it the first try i got some more but i forgot to change from flats to dark image

[edgy talon]

make that image look good now boy

[magic abyss]

very nice

[patent zodiac]

I wont dissapoint you father💀

[edgy talon]

nah but fr tho im interested in what you can di

[patent zodiac]

As i said i wont dissapoint xou

[edgy talon]

get it then

[vocal bridge]

S23 Ultra 45 mins of data

[edgy talon]

i took more frames last night

[edgy talon]

stack

[ember nebula]

I'll have to see if I still have the images

This was a few months ago

If I do still have them I only have about 30 seconds to a few minutes of exposure time

[ember nebula]

I may have a clear night tonight after 3 days of clouds and wind

[bronze jackal]

Small region of the milky way around cygnus, the s22 ultra is insane. 10 minutes from bortle 5 and some heavy lightroom editing, it's not great if you zoom in and see the star quality but ignoring that i'm very surprised at what this phone is capable of

Before lightroom

[real cloud]

Nice shot!
I have the same phone. The milky way core is also really fun to shoot.

[real cloud]

I took this last year with my phone when I was getting into this hobby.
It's a bunch of light room processed shots stitched together in hugin.
I tried going for one of those vertical milky way core shots.
I wanted to keep going and show the horizon at the top of the picture but clouds ruined my plan.

[dreamy stone]

wow what bortle did you take that in?

[real cloud]

@dreamy stone this was from a bortle 4.
It was from a night before a new moon. 0.2% moon illumination.
There was alot of light pollution off to the horizon towards a big city at this location. Unfortunately, that wall of light was right in the path of the milky way.

Each mosaic photo was a single, 30 sec shot at ISO 3200. No tracking, just on a photo tripod with a phone mount.
Looking back, I think 15 seconds at ISO1600 would be the ideal setting with this phone.
I think I might try this again in the upcoming galaxy season.

[spice gale]

Venus and Pleaides conjunction + Orion constelation last night. Took it with my Samsung Galaxy A52s phone, pro mode, 8 sec exposure time, ISO 100, bortle 6, edited in Lightroom.

[twin hazel]

woah what bortle was this in?

and what phone settings did u use?

[elder birch]

North America Nebula clearly visible on the left by Deneb 👌

[unborn loom]

Thats so cool

[magic abyss]

very nice, very round stars for a phone, how'd you do it?

[edgy talon]

dawg

i dont even know how

i think my focus was spot since i was focusing with dim stars

and my eqm-35 def played a role

i took around three hours of frames too

[ember nebula]

Never stacked an graded before, I'll get better as I do this more. This is the beehive cluster, Bortle 5, 7x35 binoculars with a OnePlus 8T, 18 minutes of data

[edgy talon]

do you still have the frames?

[ember nebula]

Yeah

[edgy talon]

sned

send

[ember nebula]

The RAW pictures?

all of the data?

[edgy talon]

yes

[ember nebula]

I have over 600

17GB worth

[edgy talon]

600 pictures of praesepe?

[ember nebula]

600 pictures that I stacked

[edgy talon]

okay

send them to me in a google drive

[ember nebula]

Do you want me to send a stacked picture?

[edgy talon]

aint this it?

[ember nebula]

I graded the image

[edgy talon]

i can post-process it

[ember nebula]

Do you want me to dm you the google drive link?

[edgy talon]

yes

[ember nebula]

Okay

Give me a bit cause my internet is very slow at the moment

[edgy talon]

its alright

[unborn loom]

You def don't want 600 images

Just send the unedited stacked file

[edgy talon]

yeah id rather someone stack then send

[ember nebula]

I stacked the pictures I got of the stars a few months ago

[edgy talon]

this was the astro i used to do WAY BACk

[bleak niche]

DBE please

[edgy talon]

DBE?

[edgy talon]

yeah i got it thanks to @arctic hornet

[rough chasm]

Hi

[spice gale]

Hello!

[bronze jackal]

That glow above the hedge is the annoying light right outside my bedroom window

I'm pretty sure it single handedly takes my percieved bortle from my room a few points down because i can only see around 40-50 stars looking east, its so annoying

So glad my phone is capable of pictures like that because this is all I was able to see

[edgy talon]

now you got a good refrence of what its like with a low bortle

[split grove]

Cool innit

[oak lion]

Is the thin lines going the other direction a lyrid meteor or a satellite?

[edgy talon]

sat

a meteor would be too fast

fainter line

[empty cove]

What would you be able to see in a bortle 5

with an iphone 13 and a 5.1 inch tabletop dob

[edgy talon]

m81-82

owl nebula

about every dso under the 10th magnitude

you need exposures to see some

[oak lion]

Very amateur XD bortle 6 skies using Huawei P30 pro

[feral sedge]

M104

[patent zodiac]

Hello, did anybody do astrophotography with xiaomi note 12 pro?

[unborn loom]

The amount of stars you can capture in bortle 6 with a single exposure, kinda crazy

[tired wolf]

bortle 5 iphone 14

orion but with moon right near it

[spice gale]

Some photos of the moon yesterday, with my crappy binos, edited in Lightroom

[tired wolf]

looks pretty good, tonight im trying my phone with a finder connected to it💀🥹

[tired wolf]

how u get that long exposure

[unborn loom]

Did you capture it during the meteor shower?

I think 2 are meteors

Sats looks a bit different

[oak lion]

Yeah!

[tired wolf]

done with iphone 14 no other accessories

[versed crow]

Using Vivo x70pro under b4(i think)

[solemn spindle]

My first galaxy pic. The sombrero galaxy. This is just a short little test while I wait for all the other subs to upload

[tired wolf]

what phone

[solemn spindle]

iphone 11

[tired wolf]

that on a telescope i suppose

[solemn spindle]

yes a 6 inch dobsonian

[tired wolf]

thats niceeo

[solemn spindle]

Heres the final image

[lunar elm]

Crazy for a phone

[iron bear]

Eta carina

📋Exif:
🔭 Toya 114/900, with onstep, 20mm 68 degree svbony eyepiece
📷 Xiaomi Mi9T for capture
⚙ 316x20s iso 1600
📌 Contryside of São Paulo, Brazil. Bortle 3 sky

M46

📋Exif:
🔭 Toya 114/900, with onstep, 20mm 68 degree svbony eyepiece
📷 Xiaomi Mi9T for capture
⚙ 170x20s iso 1600
📌 Contryside of São Paulo, Brazil. Bortle 3 sky

[chilly vessel]

jesus these pics r insane

[cunning anvil]

What settings did you use? Any filters or photoshop?

[tired wolf]

just iphone 14 no editing or filters

[cunning anvil]

Very impressive! I’m assuming that’s a 30 second picture?

[tired wolf]

3 second

[cunning anvil]

Wow! You must be in a dark sky! Cannot imagine what it would look like with 30 seconds and a tripod to keep it steady

[tired wolf]

bortle 5

[silk gust]

thats probably one of the best things ive seen, and from a phone? Great job man, thats insane. @iron bear

[unborn loom]

I think iphones max out on 3 secs lmao

Another day to bully iphones

[tired wolf]

30 seconds

[unborn loom]

Astrshdr once said the max is 1 sec or 1/3 sec depending on the models

L iphones

[tired wolf]

iphone 11 can go 30 second

[elder birch]

Yes the actual max native exposure is 1s or 1/3s depending on the model.
Then the native camera app or something like AstroShader will combine multiple photos and stack them

[elder birch]

This is absolutely insane!

[solemn spindle]

Heavy reprocess

[ember nebula]

Got these last night, OnePlus 8T and a Celestron Omni AZ 102

[mint wagon]

woohoo..

[bronze jackal]

My attempt at the moon last night, Samsung S22 handheld and 60mm refractor

[void adder]

Last night, was trying out my new eyepiece, took it with my phone :)
SW Explorer 150pds
iPhone 11pro max

[edgy talon]

WPOAW

[livid wren]

Venus

[spring viper]

Powerseeker 114 n Redmi note 7. All photos for 1 night

[edgy talon]

ring is nice

coma is crazy on the photos with stars though

[formal basalt]

Guys can you help me pls
This is how bad my stacking is

[gilded relic]

These are some insane pictures but one question how do you have this much of angular resolution with a mobile?

[gilded relic]

For example this picture would have been sharper with a better angular resolution, you could have seen way more of the edges

[edgy talon]

he probably just cuts his pictures

[solemn spindle]

I think i added too much noise reduction

Here it is with less noise reduction and some more sharpening

Nevermind its discord compression

It looks a lot clearer in the original file

[solemn spindle]

Nevermind again I wasnt looking at the original file

[spring viper]

It's bad mount, eq1

And cheap 23mm eyepiece

Plastic eyepiece)

Eq1 is unable to carry metal glass eyepiece

[edgy talon]

get an eqm-35

or heq-5

[spring viper]

Eq3 costs in Belarus 1000$)

Too expensive

[iron bear]

My eq3 came with my telescope. Everything cost 160$ in all

In Brazil. Usually things related to astronomy are very expensive around here because of import taxes.

[spring viper]

In my case, because of sanctions and war

[spring viper]

envy

[iron bear]

My eyepiece is wide angle. And furthermore I crop the image before processing. This is a little video I made with the 300 frames used in the final stacking

[iron bear]

No crop video ....

[iron bear]

I'm doing sombrero too. But I'm doing it from São Paulo. bortle 9...

Crop with ABE from pixinsight

[feral sedge]

With a phone?

[iron bear]

That's just a catch day. Around an hour of exposure... I intend to do around 10 hours of exposure

[iron bear]

Yep!

[feral sedge]

Wow

[ember nebula]

One of my first ever pictures of Saturn, Taken just before sunrise, OnePlus 8T, Celestron Omni AZ 102

I would do Jupiter but It's very close to the sun and that doesn't sound like a good outcome for my eyes

Or viewing it

[feral sedge]

This is one of my best photos taken with my phone, not stacked, not tracked, i moved the telescope with my hands contradicting the earth rotation (not edited photo)

[ember nebula]

That looks really good

[feral sedge]

This is one from carina, again with my hands, etc

[ember nebula]

Actually even better than I thought, I didn't see that you didn't stack it

That's very impressive

[feral sedge]

Jupiter, literally my best photo with not my telescope

[feral sedge]

Thanks, i tried stacking once but it was all messy with noise

[dark ridge]

Super hazy skies yesterday

This is bortle 4

Lol

[feral sedge]

Try more exposure

Saturn

Venus, I don't know why it's circle

And the other photos of sombrero galaxy and omega centauri are in my other phone

[gilded relic]

@iron bear one more question
How do you save storage for the next images dear do you delete your previous data which has been processed or delet some of your apps ?

It's almost my biggest issue here

[unborn loom]

It's a circle because it's overexposed

[feral sedge]

Ahh

Thx

[iron bear]

delete already captured. I don't leave data on my cell phone. I send everything to the computer. My hd has 600gbs of data

[patent zodiac]

This is what i took under bortle 4 skies

[dark ridge]

Bortle 4 iphone stacked

Almost 3 images

Iphone 14 pro

[magic abyss]

holy shit nice work

[patent zodiac]

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