Phone Astrophotography

[dark ridge]

Thank you guys!

[heady lark]

That is incredible

[edgy talon]

get a tracking tripod

what scope r u using

[feral sedge]

130/900

130 aperture and 900 focal

[edgy talon]

okay

get a tracking mount

[feral sedge]

Espensive

[heady lark]

Or a dslr?

[feral sedge]

I have already a dslr

[gilded relic]

Use it

[bronze jackal]

that's actually insane omg

[gilded relic]

How long was your exposure time and ISO?

[edgy talon]

jus get an eqm-35 secondhand

or an HEQ-5

[unborn loom]

Expensive

1000€ is VERY expensive for me

And every other underaged people

[formal basalt]

Whats an affordable telescope for nebula

[unborn loom]

Visual?

[feral sedge]

I use it but i also use my phone

[feral sedge]

Don't remember but i think it was 1600 iso and 6 seconds

[potent hazel]

Hi I’m 16 and I bought an eqm35

[unborn loom]

1000€ isn't expensive for you?

I also bought a 1000€ lens, but it was literally every € i had

Expensive

Most kids don't get that much allowance and depending on the age and country they may not be able to work a job (which would only be done at summer anyways)

For example you have to be 16 here to get a job at a warehouse

Only at summer

Think about the time you have to save up to get an eqm35 if you don't have a job😭

[gilded relic]

It's easy bro

Just go with crypto

Learn it and use it you would make some good money out of it but if you have enough knowledge about it otherwise it would be a horrifying experience

I'm 16 myself and I'm near the last semester exams in one of the hardest private schools in Iran called Salam Schools

Only in my free weekends I go for that

I started trading around two months ago but started learning it from way long ago

[unborn loom]

Do you actually know how long it takes to trade sucsessfully

Years

Not weeks or months

It's not easy at all💀

[edgy talon]

Hi im 15 and i also bought an eqm-35i mount after realizing how DOGSHIT my mount was after buying it

and now im getting a whole new OTA

[edgy talon]

nah its not

i thought it was, but it really isnt that hard

[unborn loom]

It is

[edgy talon]

if you get a 10$ per hour job it isnt

[unborn loom]

?

[edgy talon]

oh

let me make that more smarter

if you get a 9€ per hour job its easy

(thats around 4.5 bottles of prime an hour 😱)

[unborn loom]

[potent hazel]

Ok to be fair you’re assuming that you don’t have to pay bills or insurance or anything

Not everybody can keep all the money they earn

[edgy talon]

yeah\

[unborn loom]

What are you saying?

[edgy talon]

yeah

you can get to 1000€ if you put your mind to it

either by stealing a ota from a dome or working

[patent verge]

Day moon shot with iPhone 12 through 8inch Dobsonian using 13mm lens

[heady lark]

Your dslr will be better than your phone

Like much better.

[edgy talon]

dude use your dslr

get out of this subreddit and use it

did i jus call it a subreddit

get out of this thread

[feral sedge]

I use it

[feral sedge]

No, i also and mostly use my phone for telescope astrophotography, and i like to see what people can do with their phones that I can't do because I'm lazy

[spare ravine]

Guys, will 2 1kg counter weights balance a 3 kg telescope on a iexos 100 mount

[patent zodiac]

There is a channel called #🤓-ask-a-nerd so you can ask there

[edgy talon]

why? you have a dslr which is superior

[heady lark]

Dslr is much better for astrophotography

[edgy talon]

please use your dslr, it's an achievement to stop posting here

[bronze jackal]

North America Nebula Crop from this photo

[formal basalt]

What?

[feral sedge]

Yes, i know, but i also like to use my phone, even if dslr is superior, i will keep using my phone, ofc I'm using my dslr, but i also use my phone

[feral sedge]

Yes. But in the telescope i use my phone, i tried using my camera with the adapter and well, not tracked, and a tracking mount it's too much money for a 15 year boy that lives in Argentina..

[magic abyss]

https://tenor.com/view/avengers-endgame-thanos-nerd-alert-opinion-nerd-gif-26272469

[unborn loom]

What?

Photography or visual

[edgy talon]

yes... king...

[heady lark]

Mk

[edgy talon]

fr?

i gotchu

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tSEbji6V4rYz81COybiD5LWaekULIQReJy7kZCxQy78/edit?usp=share_link

[feral sedge]

Bro

[feral sedge]

1 second with the telescope and dslr with the adapter it's a lot. 900 focal length it's too much

[edgy talon]

dude

please use your dslr

[feral sedge]

I use it and i also use my phone.

[edgy talon]

your dslr is 10x better than your phone...

join bat untracked #1102721823206014986

[indigo abyss]

#1102721823206014986

[unborn loom]

Tbh i wouldn't bother too

+he might not want to kill his shutter

Using a lens is a better idea

[slate garden]

dither

[bleak niche]

Yeah lol this is untracked so I couldn’t dither easily.

[formal basalt]

What's the difference??

Like what is this then ?

[unborn loom]

Photography

Because you photographed it

Lol

Visual means looking with the eye, no photos

[formal basalt]

Oh so photography then

Affordable telescope for nebula or moon

[unborn loom]

You'd want a dslr camera for that, not a telescope.(in your situation)

And how much is affordable for you?

[formal basalt]

What do you think these are from??

[unborn loom]

From a phone or a real camera with a small lens, no telescope.

Most likely untracked

[edgy talon]

dslrs go along with scopes quite well

[iron bear]

Magellanic Clouds
The trail below is just a satellite flare.

📋Exif:
📷 Phone, Xiaomi Mi9T
⚙ 30x35s iso 800
📌 Contryside of São Paulo, Brazil.

[formal basalt]

What do you use for stacking?

[formal basalt]

How can I track objects
Do i need to build a tracker??

[unborn loom]

Programs like dss, siril etc there are more

[unborn loom]

You either need to build a tracker or buy one

[unborn loom]

In his situation. He hasn't mentioned his budget, but he seems very new to the hobby and you def shouldn't buy a telescope for imaging as a total beginner

[formal basalt]

So a tripod will do the trick??

[unborn loom]

Which camera do you have?

@formal basalt

[formal basalt]

Realme 9 pro plus

[edgy talon]

yeah i used a sv105 for my first time

a kit lens would work well, but if you could afford a scope i would get it

[solemn spindle]

Sombrero galaxy starless attempt iphone 11

[unborn loom]

Phone astrophotography can be very good if you know what ur doing and it's very fine to start with one.

A phone alone is not really enough for deepsky. I used binoculars

And yes you need a tripod

[formal basalt]

But with tripod along is it enough to i do need to track them right?

[chilly vessel]

damn untracked?

[edgy talon]

yes

[solemn spindle]

yes

[chilly vessel]

sheesh

[edgy talon]

how did you pull that off?>

oh

dont iphone stich frames together in an exposure

[solemn spindle]

i stacked a bunch of short exposures

i used a grid in a third party camera app to keep the stars in roughly the same position

[edgy talon]

thats sweet

ill try it tonight

oh nevermind the moon is right on its ass

[solemn spindle]

I sort of cut the middle rectangle in half and kept slewing to keep a star in that area

[elder birch]

If anyone is willing I’m still looking for beta testers for AstroShader (iOS only atm).
It works by stacking during the capture process. e.g. set 50 exposures and it will align and stack them for you producing a single final image

[unborn loom]

You don't need to be tracked, but you need to recenter it

[visual flower]

Oh hi! I once mentioned in the CloudyNights thread how there seems to be noise reduction going on, as my images ended up not having lots of color noise which prevented me from stacking those again on my pc for a very deep image.
You answered with "I can definitely add functionality to a future release to control this."
Is anything like this already done or on the way?

[elder birch]

Hey!
So there’s no noise reduction at all in the processing now.
Although obviously if you align and stack say 50 images in the capture this will reduce the noise a lot, in the same way a longer exposure would.

I haven’t added controls over noise suppression yet, but can do this for sure

[visual flower]

This is really werid 🤔 Here is my image of andromeda and the background is very smooth. There no noise left which also kills my weak signal if I plan to stack those stacked images futher

this was taken with the iphone 14 pro max and the zoom lens

[elder birch]

Mmm yes this is weird.
What were the settings for exposures and exposure time?

My first thoughts are that the old alignment processing was not super precise (fixed in v1.0.6) and the other thing could be focus.

[visual flower]

focus should be fine. This image was taken in january, I'll try again with the updated version to rule out the alignment. Although the stars are pretty well aligned here (the image above is just a zoomed in screenshot)

[elder birch]

Yes please - if you were stacking earlier this year the alignment was slightly off which acted like a low-pass filter; removing noise / high frequency spatial signal

[visual flower]

Okay thank you! Will do!

[elder birch]

One other thing to note is that the zoom camera sensor has worse light sensitivity than the main camera sensor.

Appreciate for Andromeda you might want it to fill the FOV a bit more so it’s a trade off.
…With some help from others working on a slightly crazy solution for imaging dim targets untracked, hopefully out in a week or so 😅

[visual flower]

slightly crazy? now that sounds interesting

[elder birch]

Haha so it’s live pixel binning and low light enhancement from the RAW data. So you get a decent preview and then aligning and stacking all this live too 🤪

[iron bear]

Pixinsight and Photoshop

[feral sedge]

I told you, i know, but i also use my phone, mostly for fun, and even if dslr is a million times better, i will keep using my phone

[edgy talon]

PLEASE

[feral sedge]

What

Also, it's interesting to see what you can get with only your phone

[edgy talon]

what camera do you even have

[feral sedge]

Canon 650D

[edgy talon]

scope focal length?

[feral sedge]

900

Mm

Lens is a 18-135 i think

[feral sedge]

Like, camera lens

[edgy talon]

your camera would oversample with your scope a little

[feral sedge]

That's why I don't use it with my scope

[edgy talon]

you could prolly barlow it

lets see

your camera is good

[feral sedge]

Yee

[edgy talon]

id get a camera with better pixel size

uranus-c

[feral sedge]

Yeah, but i have no money, and my parents doesn't leave me sell my camera

One day i will get a better camera, or a tracking mount

[edgy talon]

get a HEQ-5

seems good for your refractor

(switch your ota out for a better OTA)

[feral sedge]

Refractor? I have a reflactor, Newtonian

[unborn loom]

@feral sedge i'd upgrade to a tracker next then scope

[feral sedge]

Yes yes

Of course, I'm saving money from school to buy a tracker

[unborn loom]

You probably won't need the heq 5 depending on the scope so you can skip that

[feral sedge]

Na, i need it

My telescope is too big for manual mount

And it's hard to take a good picture with the phone, and more hard with the camera..

[unborn loom]

Which scope

[feral sedge]

Hokenn
Aperture: 130mm
Focal length 900mm

[unborn loom]

Ur not gonna upgrade it?

It doesn't say the weight

[edgy talon]

im used to long fl's being refractors

[unborn loom]

I'd get 130pds+ eq5 pro/eqm 35 and get coma corrector and guiding later

Sell ur current scope

I wouldn't use it and go untracked with that 135mm lens

[feral sedge]

I'm actually doing this

And i will do it until i can buy the other accessories 😅

I can take pretty good pictures with just a 135mm

[unborn loom]

Ye do that

[feral sedge]

Wo

[unborn loom]

You wont need heq5 if you get a smaller scope in the future

[feral sedge]

Yeah, the telescope i have now can be used for pretty deep things, like some Galaxies, or getting a really big detail in nebulosity (?

[scenic ether]

From December in Sedona, I just found this thread!

[sturdy kiln]

Looks sick! What equipment?

[scenic ether]

Just my Pixel 6

non pro

Night Sight Astrophotography mode is a game changer

[livid wren]

I can faintly see the flame nebula

[tired wolf]

iphone 14 - 130$ god knows what ebay telescope got this full unedited

[unborn loom]

which scope?

[plush palm]

Orion nebula without tracker (5 second exposure)

[magic abyss]

do you have a pc or laptop?

[plush palm]

I have laptop, but this was taken by phone-realme 9

[magic abyss]

ok i'll give you 3 simple tricks to get a slightly better view of orion

1. lower the exposure to about 1s and take as many images as you want, if the nebula gets to about 1/3 from the borders of your lens then stop imaging and re center.
   if you don't want to tap each time (which you don't, trust me) use an app called DeepSky camera, really intuitive and you can select the exposure, isso and the file directory (very important to do the file transfer because cammera images are stored in google photos and you have to move them to internal storage)

2. load the images onto your laptop and stack them using sequator, this will create as single image with the exposure time combined of all your images plus you get no star trails

3. download siriL and load the image, from there the simplest thing you can do is to do a "histogram" strech, just select it from the dropp down selection of "image procesing" and once you open it select the gear icon and it should brighten up your image a lot and give you a better view

both siriL and sequator are free and are for your laptop

i personally use sequator for the stacking because it's much more forgiving with my lack of skill and tracker

[plush palm]

Yo thanks, will definitely try it

[magic abyss]

if you need any help @ me or dm me

[plush palm]

Will, thanks

[magic abyss]

one last thing, if the stars still seem streched, lower exposure even further

and there are many other tools that will help a lot to erase phone defects but i didn't want to get into the detail

[plush palm]

Cool, btw does this work with other nebula's and galaxy's?

[magic abyss]

any

[plush palm]

Cool

[edgy talon]

yeah you can def do better if its still somehow up

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tSEbji6V4rYz81COybiD5LWaekULIQReJy7kZCxQy78/edit#gid=0

take subs, stack, post-process with siril

this is a sub for me

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1052383583337189386/1094790014430359634/20230409_203704.jpg?width=388&height=517

but thats from awhile ago

this was the finished result

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1052383583337189386/1094976543631085668/CL6X_Orion_new.png

all with phone as a camera

EQM-35 PRO, Andriod A42, 650/134mm Orion observer OTA

[dreamy stone]

Shot on my phone. 72 total frames at 24 frames per second. Each shot with 10 seconds of exposure and 500 iso. All of the frames were edited in lightroom. Took a while to get everything ordered right to process into a video. The shot is of venus and taurus. Hope you guys enjoy

[patent zodiac]

Very first photo of bode's galaxy, i hope i can improve

[slate garden]

exosyres down to like 0.05 for no trailing

[magic abyss]

depends on the zoom

[slate garden]

that zoom seems like 1000mm

phone sensors are tiny and so pixels are tinier

bbut the stars are many man pixels each

still like 0.1 sec exopsres

[unborn loom]

I would never bother with 0.1 sec exposures, just go with 1 sec with small amount of trailing. Phone images won't be perfect anyways

[spare ravine]

How do I stack in DSS if my raw files only have 30 stars?

[wild abyss]

My first moon pick

[dreamy stone]

just realized that's gemini, not taurus

[spare ravine]

Looks realy sharp, what telescope did you use?

[wild abyss]

Sw 200p

[edgy talon]

what mount with the 200p

[edgy talon]

Taurus gone

[iron bear]

Continuing the sombrero project in bortle 9

Single shot from now. 35s iso 800

[chilly vessel]

Damn that's impressive

I could nv :[.

[edgy talon]

whats your settup

[cunning anvil]

Wow lucas with more mind boggling projects

[chilly vessel]

6se and uranus c

[wild abyss]

Eq5

[edgy talon]

Hit it up then

[edgy talon]

WHAY

[ember nebula]

What do you guys use for an intervalometer for astrophotography?

[vocal bridge]

I use my phone

[ember nebula]

No like to take a picture every XX seconds

[vocal bridge]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[ember nebula]

Without having to tap the shutter button

[vocal bridge]

i use my pen

My phone came with a pen built in so easy

[ember nebula]

Cause I normally just use an auto clicker and set it to go off every XX seconds but I was curious of there were dedicated apps for that

Then I sit and look at the sky while I wait

[vocal bridge]

The worst part

waiting

[ember nebula]

Yeah but I like it sometimes, the sky is pretty and sometimes you can see a shooting star

If it's cold then I'm not a fan

[vocal bridge]

no chance in b7

wait

my bad

i've actually seen them

not by my eyes

i was doinn a time lapse

so i caught like 3 or 4

[vocal bridge]

this

[ember nebula]

Oh that's cool

[vocal bridge]

And yes also recorded from my phone

[vocal bridge]

thank yo

-u

[ember nebula]

Did you just take the time lapse in the regular camera app?

And leave your phone out for like an hour or so?

[vocal bridge]

regular camera app

[ember nebula]

Are you in Europe or the Americas?

[vocal bridge]

and left my phone out

im in Europe

[ember nebula]

Nice

[vocal bridge]

yh

[ember nebula]

When I look at light pollution maps there's not many bortle 1 places

[vocal bridge]

exactly i've never gone anywhere apart from b7

never gone lower

[ember nebula]

Oh wow

I live in bortle 4 but bortle 1 is a little over an hour away

[vocal bridge]

LUCKY

[ember nebula]

I live in the western US

Utah specifically

[vocal bridge]

imagine seeing the galaxy every single night

jus magical

[ember nebula]

Yeah it's really cool to see but it may have gone up in recent years cause I can't really see the milky way anymore from my backyard

Or I'm looking across the valley toward bortle 7

[vocal bridge]

shoot

well jus move

wait nvm

if moving was easy i would be in bortle 1 rn

[ember nebula]

Yeah same here

I'm also only 16 and don't happen to have a spare 300k to buy a house with

But once I get my license I can drive out to bortle 1

[vocal bridge]

bro im 14 so yh

it was a clear night yesterday

no idea y i didnt go out

SCHOOOL NIGHTS AHHHHHHHHHHHH

[ember nebula]

Yeah same here

[vocal bridge]

Astronomy should be a subject

[ember nebula]

It's nice in the summer here cause it doesn't rain much

[ember nebula]

That'd be cool

[vocal bridge]

its raining rn

flippin uk weather

[ember nebula]

But it's also not nice cause it's almost always a drought

[vocal bridge]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[ember nebula]

Except this record winter has changed that

Lots of the state is still in a drought but it's mild

[vocal bridge]

idk

[ember nebula]

And water levels are rising again finally

[vocal bridge]

bro its not my fault

i've been on this planet for only 14 years

i havent even made a dent yet

[ember nebula]

?

[vocal bridge]

its not my fault sea levels r rising

alr gtg

bye

[ember nebula]

See ya

[unborn loom]

Why do i feel like it's a satellite

[silk gust]

Pretty sure it is as well

[versed crow]

Venus but can't understand why it's soo blurred out after removing phone it's ok but after putting phone it's blurred

[unborn loom]

1 refocus. 2 lower the shutter speed/iso

[neat flame]

I took 800x 2 sec exposure of ngc2343

Dslr

[spare ravine]

guys, what is better for planetary, using a 6.5mm eyepiece with a 2X barlow or a 2.4mm eyepiece

this is the one that I want to buy

[unborn loom]

2.4mm

First of all for what scope

[spare ravine]

150/1400

[unborn loom]

Yeah thats wayyyyyy too much lmao

[edgy talon]

same here

[edgy talon]

like

what scope sscope

send link

[dreamy stone]

made another timelapse, no idea what stars those are. it was taken at 1:30 am est last night facing west. I live in Ontario

would be appreciated if someone could tell me what key objects are in it

and what are some other objects I could photograph for a bortle 5 area without a telescope

[unborn loom]

Just wondering why you need to see it?

A quick search would have told you too

[spare ravine]

Thats the one

[spare ravine]

Is this eyepiece good for galaxy astrophotography?

It is a 17mm orion eyepiece

And it looks realy good

[unborn loom]

No

Buy a dslr

With an eyepiece you can only use a phone

So don't buy it

Save the money

Use ur current eyepiece

[edgy talon]

that costs more than your scope

[unborn loom]

[edgy talon]

no

get a tracking mount and whole new ota

that scope is soley for visual, its even a bird jones style

eyepieces are for the drawer once you get a camera

[unborn loom]

Oh god right he has that scope

You have no idea how astrophotography is with 1400mm of focal lenght

If ur into astrophotography i'd sell that entire thing because it's useless imo

[spare ravine]

My telescope costs 1700 lei and the eyepiece is 500

[unborn loom]

Point stays the same

[spare ravine]

Yea I get it, I have a shit scope but at the time my parents wouldnt let me get anything more expensive even if I would have saved up some more

[unborn loom]

Can you sell it?

If you want to

[spare ravine]

https://www.olx.ro/d/oferta/skywatcher-newton-150-750-pds-pe-montura-eq-3-2-IDh8LRB.html

[unborn loom]

You can buy a dslr and a lens but i understand ur parents don't want to

[spare ravine]

What about this telescope

[spare ravine]

I have a nikon d3000 and a 75-300 sigma lens

[unborn loom]

Not sure how good that is but check it out on youtube. I suggest you start with that and not worry about other things. Ur next upgrade would be an electric mount which you shouldn't cheap out on.

[spare ravine]

Explore scientific iexos-100 PMC-8 mount

Is it ok?

@unborn loom

[unborn loom]

People say to avoid it at all cost

[spare ravine]

Why tho, I get that you can have connection problems but I think that you can conect it to your pc via cable and the conection problem is resolved

[unborn loom]

I don't think it's that but i'm not sure

[unborn loom]

It probably isn't as simple as this too but idk

[edgy talon]

needs a new mount like a HEQ-5

would rather get a quattro ota

only clockdriven too

just get a mount with a synscan computer and use eq-mod

[unborn loom]

Just focus on 1 thing atm...

[spare ravine]

I will just wait until I could find a good eq3 goto mount second hand

[edgy talon]

eqm-35

[dreamy stone]

is it even possible get a glimpse of the milky way through stacking when my frames look like this

bortle 5 area btw

and using sequator

also the section of sky where the milky way rises for me is in the direction of Toronto, thats why the image looks pretty bright

idk if im using the wrong camera settings or not

i took 3 sets of 16 pictures with different settings

the first set of phots was 20 second exposure, 1600 iso

second set was 15 sec exposure, 1600 iso

and the third set was 30 sec exposure, 3200 iso

idk what im doing wrong or if its even possible to shoot a pic of the milky way in my area

[solemn spindle]

The antennae galaxies - iphone 11 - skywatcher 150p - bortle 7

[dreamy stone]

so is it possible or nah?

and any suggestions that may improve the pictures

[rough chasm]

yes very possible I’m b5 my single subs make out the mw

[dreamy stone]

what settings do you usually use then? I feel like my settings need a lot of tweaking

[rough chasm]

Try and point at the milkyway core

[dreamy stone]

im p sure i was, i used stellarium prior to taking pictures

[dreamy stone]

what settings though

[rough chasm]

Settings you gots is fine maybe drop the iso a lil

Make sure when you take subs each sub isn’t trailing tho

[dreamy stone]

ok, would 15 second exposure and 800 iso work well?

[rough chasm]

Probably

[unborn loom]

I'd use 25 sec and lower iso

Also ur blown out a bit

Ur probably looking at bortle 9 thats why

Just lower iso

[wild abyss]

My first images of mars and m44

[dreamy stone]

Wdym? The light pollution map says bortle 5? Whats a good iso to use with 25 sec shutterspeed

also what do you mean by blown out a bit

[unborn loom]

Yes but you might be LOOKING at a high bortle level

I think

That explains why it's so bright there

[unborn loom]

Test it, take a few test exposures.

[sly bloom]

13 pro 30s. Bortle 3 site looking into LP dome from Detroit , Mi.

[potent gorge]

heres my first ever completed astro photo. taken on iphone 12 mini. photographed last year

took this on my galaxy s8. this was pretty cool

lol

[sly bloom]

I have horrid pics from an iPhone XS

[potent gorge]

ah

looks like it got compressed a ton

[sly bloom]

Nah just .5 second exp lock

[potent gorge]

ive moved on from phone astrophotography to deep sky and dslr

[sly bloom]

Yea it is fun to experiment every once in a while 🙂

[potent gorge]

milkyway is getting higher for me so gonna try it

gonna shoot it raw and stack then process to have a look what i get

im genuanlyy curious what ill get

[sly bloom]

With the 12 mini?

Or ur dslr haha

[potent gorge]

na galaxy s20

shooting the milkyway with a galaxy phone

cant get better than that

[sly bloom]

commercial worthy

[edgy talon]

same here

[magic abyss]

very nice

[sly bloom]

thanks 🙂 loved the meteor lol

[real cloud]

Phone: Samsung S22U
20x30sec at ISO 1600
Stacked on Sequator. Edited in PixInsight.

I left my phone sitting on top of my tracked and guided mount gear.
It wasn't properly mounted but it still came out pretty clean. (It's not looking any better than multiple short subs but it sure was easier )

[spare ravine]

where?

[spare ravine]

Guys, do you have any tips for planetary astrophotography with my phone and 6" telescope. What app should I use? Digital zoom or no?

[wind spoke]

Any app that lets you record in high resolution and fps

[spare ravine]

Any recomandations?

[wind spoke]

I have procam but its paid

You can record 4k 60fps in iphone

Android idk

[wind spoke]

Default camera

[spare ravine]

What procam

ProcamX?

[wind spoke]

Procam 8

But you dont really need it tho

[spare ravine]

took this one today

[sly bloom]

I used nightcap when I did phone planetary but that was back in 2019

[wind spoke]

It looks good

[magic abyss]

first time trying widefield, 15s subs at iso 4000, total 3mins

[bronze jackal]

8 minute exposure with S22 Ultra astrophotography mode

[dreamy stone]

@unborn loom sorry for the ping but is this a good amount of exposure? I feel like it wont get detail once I run the frames I took in sequater.

i can't tell if those streaks are clouds or part of the light pollution

50 iso 10 second shutter btw

also taken before the milky way has risen

[unborn loom]

@dreamy stone those are clouds and raise ur exposure time and iso a bit

[dreamy stone]

ok

how much should i raise them? Idk what the right amount of exposure should look like

I tried a bunch of different settings and they all looked overexposed to me

[unborn loom]

What bortle are you from?

[dreamy stone]

5

though, that section of the sky is bright since im facing 2 major cities

[unborn loom]

If it's over exposued ur probably not from bortle 5 or ur looking at a bortle 8-9

I''d use 25secs and iso like 400 maybe

This is 30 secs iso 125 bortle 6

I'd get it brighter

[dreamy stone]

I see

I took this earlier with gcam also

sec

unedited

[unborn loom]

It's like green

Idk why

[dreamy stone]

yea me neither

it was with the astromode so everything was p much automatic when i took that

[unborn loom]

Anyways test different exposures untill they look right to you. Not too dark not too bright. You can even figure out if hr facing a city by pointing it at the opposite direction or just by looking on google maps

[dreamy stone]

well ik in the south i'm facing toronto and missisuaga

thats where i see the skyglow the most

everywhere else the skyglow is closer to the horizon and is blocked by trees and stuff

[unborn loom]

[dreamy stone]

some of my best photos came out like this though

these are edited

[unborn loom]

Better

[dreamy stone]

the first and last ones are used with the stock camera

second one was w/ gcam

[unborn loom]

This is what i got out of a single exposure

[dreamy stone]

i see

is that edited?

[unborn loom]

Yea

[dreamy stone]

is the other one edited too

[unborn loom]

Nope

[dreamy stone]

oh

[dreamy stone]

i remember the first image being pretty overexposed before I post processed it

[unborn loom]

This is what bortle 3 looks like

Edited too

Jpeg btw

Shoot raw

[dreamy stone]

I think I used close to max settings, it was 30 sec exposure and 1600 or 3200 iso

[dreamy stone]

yeah i have been

[unborn loom]

this is bortle 1 edited

Single exp

[dreamy stone]

yeah I don't really have the best access to a dark sky location tbf

[unborn loom]

This is stacked and edited

[dreamy stone]

the closest location to me is like 2 hours away and its bortle 3

oh wait i forgot i took this last night when i was testing exposures, the phone moved a little so some star trailing is seen

and its 25 sec exposure and 400 iso

[mint wagon]

Bortle 1 and it's 4 hours away

[dreamy stone]

idk why its rotated like that

[dreamy stone]

@unborn loom is this ok?

[unborn loom]

I guess you can't do anything about light pollution

Give it a try

[dreamy stone]

yeah ig i just need to use that same exposure and iso and stack a bunch of pictures

is 16 pics enough or should i go with more

[unborn loom]

Take more just incase

[dreamy stone]

like 30?

[spring viper]

Milkyway and galaxies
Redmi note 7, powerseeker 114eq1, bortle 3

[solemn spindle]

Tweezers Galaxy

iPhone 11 + Skywatcher 150p

[lunar elm]

Yooo what, that’s sick for a phone

[lunar elm]

And you too, damn, y’all are taking really good images

[empty cove]

@solemn spindle the classic 150p?

[solemn spindle]

Yes

[empty cove]

@solemn spindle one exposure

or stacked

???

[solemn spindle]

Stacked

[empty cove]

what app did u use

[solemn spindle]

Siril

[empty cove]

thinking of getting the classic 150p

so just looking around to see what it's capable of doing

[edgy talon]

yeah but tracking

you gotta consider that the 150p and all other dobs are actual ass with dso ap

[empty cove]

I know

it's my first scope and I want to do visual

[edgy talon]

alright bet

i got a hybrid imaging rig coming along rn

when i get a uranus-c, it will be good for everyuthing

[empty cove]

@edgy talon Later, I'd probably get an imaging rig

Not expecting a dob to do astrophtography

I was just curious as to what it's capable of

[edgy talon]

refractor, lens or reflector

or catatropic

[unborn loom]

Also don't be dissapointed if you get bad images as ur first try. You can get AMAZING results with a dob

Check out the thread dobsonian astrophotogtaphy

For example these were made by a heritage 130p untracked

[magic abyss]

to be fair those are poivre's images

[tired wolf]

late response but i would have a idea lol sorry all i know its a generic scope that ebay sellers have rebranded and sold lol

[fervent solar]

mobile astro is fun if done correctly

[potent hazel]

poivre never fails to make me disappointed in myself

[solemn spindle]

M83 with an iPhone 11 and Skywatcher 150p

[solemn spindle]

Did some work on the background and colours but kind of messed up the stars

[unborn loom]

Good job looks good

[woven crown]

The moon from my A52s 5G samsung, plus some sky photography

[edgy talon]

that meteor is nice

[edgy talon]

that coma is insane

[solemn spindle]

I think they’re just star trails that were made worse from the stacking

[edgy talon]

are you untracked?

[potent hazel]

its a combination of both

if it were just star trails, they would all be going in the same direction

[edgy talon]

what quattro do you have?

[potent hazel]

the telescope wouldnt necessarily be the issue, an eyepiece would add a ton of coma

[edgy talon]

yeah

jus seein if he had the 150p

[solemn spindle]

Yeah

[edgy talon]

do you have the untracked chart

[slate garden]

I think his exposures are just too long

And eyepiece yah

[edgy talon]

phones really limit exposures

damn

[unborn loom]

You can't expect a perfect image from a phone and untracked scope bruh

[tired wolf]

iphone 14 bortle 5

[solemn spindle]

short leo triplet test

[potent gorge]

👀

[solemn spindle]

Heres the final image

[potent gorge]

Found a bunch of photos I took last yesr

On my phone

[magic abyss]

first clear night in a month and oh man just had the worst dew i've ever seen, completely soaked the mirror an lens. couldn't even image anything because i couldn't aling the camera to the lens, on that note, how do you guys go by doing that? i try to use my bathinov mask and adjust untill i see the 3 spikes so i can then focus but it's really tedious.

[empty cove]

this is the phone astrophotography forum, not the normal ap chat

[magic abyss]

yes the phone camera

i'm using a phone

[empty cove]

oohhh....

sorry

do you have a celestron nexyz

or similar

[magic abyss]

dunno i have the shitty celestron one

the one without the z axis

[empty cove]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Celestron-81035-Adattatore-Universale-Smartphone/dp/B07J2GGFQB/ref=sr_1_5?crid=XALIWPM5KJVK&keywords=celestron+phone+adapter&qid=1685255519&s=electronics&sprefix=celestron+phone+%2Celectronics%2C61&sr=1-5

this one?

[magic abyss]

https://www.celestron.com/products/nexgo-dx-smartphone-adapter-kit this one

[empty cove]

@magic abyss you can do x & y

what's the problem

more detailed?

[magic abyss]

yes i'm having trouble centering it

[magic abyss]

exactly

because the diffraction spikes won't show unless i perfectly ailing it

[empty cove]

ahhh.

how do you feel shelling out on the nexyz

I'll look online if thare are ways to improve the nxgo

[magic abyss]

problem is i'd have to import it

[empty cove]

ohhh

@magic abyss so is the phone too far away from the eyepiece?

[magic abyss]

no it's just too hard to guess where the center of the eyepiece is

i was wondering if anyone used some special method

[real cloud]

I'm not sure if this is going to work for you with your gear but when I am taking test shots on the eyepiece, I look for a dark gradient like this.
And I make corrections by moving my lens towards the darkness.

When you don't see the gradient, then you are centered.

My gear is a refractor with 25mm plossl and using Samsung S22U. I have the NeXYZ. Having the z axis is nice.

[cunning anvil]

Milky Way - iPhone 14 pro max 1 image with 30 seconds with night mode. Some edits through apples default photos app just to see what details would show.

[unborn loom]

Thats what i did too

[cunning anvil]

Which refractor do you have?

[tired wolf]

slightly edited

[real cloud]

Orion Short Tube 80

[patent zodiac]

As a phone mount i just use a piece of wood with a hole in it for the eyepiece and hold and center my phone with clamps. Nothing special just a trashy phone adapter but it works

With the phone adapter i got this

[empty cove]

@patent zodiac what scope?

[tired wolf]

what telescope

[patent zodiac]

Skywatcher 130/900 reflector (not an astromaster or a powerseeker...)

[fair trellis]

Daytime moon with a samsung a22

[edgy talon]

i ordered a uranus-c

ill still be here to try to give advice to yall

[tired wolf]

i needa try that

[vocal bridge]

S23 Ultra 15 sec exposure
Bortle 4 lowest i've been so far

[unborn loom]

Whats with that gradient

I think ur overprocessing ur images

[vocal bridge]

i did

[lunar elm]

M101 should be right there lol

[real cloud]

Is that using the 10x zoom F4.9 lens?

[lunar elm]

Sure it’s the comet? Not some flaring with the lens?

Unless you stacked a lot of shots, idk because with 40 minutes of data on it, I was no where near getting close to getting that much of a tail? Or actually, what bortle are you in?

[lunar elm]

Yeah, it’s most likely flaring

Do you have a wider shot tho?

[edgy talon]

gonna get my last phone image

cygnus wall

thats what test exposures are for

i usually just look for stars around the object

then compare with stellarium

human platesolving

ZTF?

E3 ZTF?

is that the comet

when did you take the pictures

oh i saw it visually

fuzzy little thing near kochab

when that bright comet comes around ill nail it

[lunar elm]

This might be it

[muted sedge]

My first planetary image taken with a dob!
8 inch Dob f/6
Redmi K20 Pro
Kellner 9mm eyepiece
UnTrAcKeD ;-;
PIPP/AS!3

[spare ravine]

A bit overexposed

[fair trellis]

I still looks pretty good

[unborn loom]

Looks good

[vocal bridge]

No jus 0.6 zoom both of them

[wild abyss]

Mars in front of M44

[unborn loom]

Nice

[white kraken]

despite having left ap (for now) I still like to revisit old photos and use new photoshop tricks I randomly learn, this is my orion that used to be very red but a new trick has allowed me to bring out the blues without getting rid of the red, the difference between the images can clearly be seen, opinions?

[unborn loom]

Gj

[white kraken]

or maybe this, wo the red I was able to stretch it a bit further but it feels a bit cooked now

I never could get into editing images well because minor adjustments just aren't visible to me, I see the difference but cannot decide which one is better

[unborn loom]

I like this one a bit more

[patent zodiac]

The Beehive cluster

[solemn spindle]

Stacked about 1000 seconds of integration

[edgy talon]

my last mobile images

image

ring nebula

my uranus-c should come in a week or so

[burnt dawn]

damn

oops wrong

[white kraken]

Thats a great shot! Can't wait to see what you do with uranus!

[wild abyss]

I think i got two of the Leo triplets Last night

[edgy talon]

I'll still be here to give advice

[white kraken]

noo the joke missed

[edgy talon]

it go fart fart

[patent zodiac]

[wind spoke]

heyyo

processed one

i somehow managed to get moon on my oneplus nord ce 2

without any telescope for matter

[unborn loom]

Noice

[edgy talon]

10s

idk the inttergration time, id say around 7 minutes

[wind spoke]

My mobile doesn't support pro mode 😑

[unborn loom]

[wind spoke]

bruh

[wind spoke]

which one though?

[wind spoke]

Redmi note 5

[wind spoke]

oh

it seems a bit old

[wind spoke]

2018

[wind spoke]

oh

Ahahaha 😅

[pallid vault]

This actually was my first try of photographing the orion nebula (with an iPhone 8)

[wind spoke]

Redmi note 5
8x zoom
ISO 800
No equipment
I am broke
No telescope

Jupiter

[fair trellis]

Comet neowise a few years ago...

[wind spoke]

@fair trellis be friends?

[fair trellis]

Sure

[wind spoke]

Sended req

[fair trellis]

Acceptd

[wind spoke]

Lest go to genral chat

[fair trellis]

Ok

[wind spoke]

How did you do that ?

[wind spoke]

No you erase blue background

How ?

[amber dome]

Converting it to black and white

[wind spoke]

😮

[amber dome]

And increasing the contrast

[wind spoke]

So.....that's how....

[amber dome]

Yeah

[wind spoke]

Cya

[edgy talon]

I love you guys

But fortunately for me my time has come to leave

[cyan cairn]

So I have an image it took a while ago, but if forget where my camera was facing when I took it.

It was took on January 21st, 12:00, in southern Idaho.

If someone could possibly reverse engineer this image, that would be fantastic

[potent hazel]

used a threshold filter to make constellations more recognizable, then it was easy peasy. youre looking at the constellation cassiopeia.

[cyan cairn]

Thank you!

[potent hazel]

no problem

[wind spoke]

good luck

[unborn loom]

Only chads use a phone for astrophotography

[dreamy stone]

bruh more smoke

coming from Quebec this time

i can smell it in the air

[potent gorge]

Australia's was really bad in 2020

For like 2-3 months it was just burning

Really hard

And we didn't get rains. We have shit weather cycles

[edgy talon]

pointing to andromeda, persues, and cassopiea, maybe aries

[edgy talon]

this is nearly idetnical to what you saw

i assumed you were near boise

[cyan cairn]

Yes

Spot on

[chilly vessel]

looked at one of my older phone photos from when I was stilla beginner, turns out I got more detail than I thought I did.

[patent zodiac]

The ring nebula, not my best photo but im happy with it
SkyWatcher 130/900
Xiaomi note 12 pro

[patent zodiac]

I reprocessed my ring nebula photo and i got some more color from it

[amber dome]

Cool

[boreal vessel]

This is the best I got how u do this

You can still stack photos even using an iPhone

[unborn loom]

Like others told you

Tell us the equipment you took this with

And tell us how you took it

Then we can help

[edgy talon]

your stars are trailing

too noisey, zoom out

unfocused

[dark ridge]

WHAT APP THAT U USED TO SHOOT

[solemn spindle]

lightroom mobile

[boreal vessel]

iPhone 11 default camera app, 5s exposure bortle 7

[boreal vessel]

Astrobot

[boreal vessel]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/824815180155584573/1116748188720824361/annotated_Screenshot_20230606-163931_Google.jpg

[unborn loom]

Take more images and stack them

Try not to get star trails

And don't zoom in with ur phone

And after stacking edit it

[boreal vessel]

Oh uhh btw this is what the original frames looked like (with edits ofc)

[unborn loom]

👍

Which scope and mount?

[cobalt brook]

Legit my first photo I took on this phone

Note 20 ultra

[unborn loom]

👍

[boreal vessel]

Orion spaceprobe 130st with its regular mount

[unborn loom]

Alr

[boreal vessel]

Bruh this is the best I got when I started off 😭

I just noticed that the moon looks like it’s eclipsing, this was the strawberry moon btw

You can kinda see it here

[unborn loom]

Nah

[boreal vessel]

its not lemme guess

[cobalt brook]

How? Thru a scope?

[cobalt brook]

rate it, please.. i believe this was thru my telescope and I've edited it

[unborn loom]

It looks fine

[cobalt brook]

Too edited ?

[boreal vessel]

Yes

[boreal vessel]

Just too low power

[unborn loom]

It looks a bit yellow

But what scope did you take this with

[cobalt brook]

Mine, the one in my bio (celestron omni az 102) tbh this also could have been just with my phone not my scope

[boreal vessel]

Finally got some red :)

[formal notch]

guys is webcam allowed here?

[amber dome]

Phone Astrophotography

[amber dome]

There's a separate forum for webcam astrophotography

[feral sedge]

What

[unborn loom]

?

[feral sedge]

I didn't know there was a forum like that

Interesting

[formal notch]

Ok thx

[patent zodiac]

What scope you got, also try using a big eyepiece so the magnification is better, it will let more light go in. And also try getting a better focus and later on you can crop the image to make it a close up image of the nebula

[solemn spindle]

Lawn sprinkler nebula

[boreal vessel]

10 mm eyepiece with a 130mm reflector

650mm focal length

[edgy talon]

skywatcher explorer?

[boreal vessel]

Orion spaceprobe 130st

[patent zodiac]

Hm, try using a bigger eyepiece something like 25mm it will be less magnification but it eill let more light in

[boreal vessel]

Trust me I tried that and it didn’t magnify enough to get anything

[unborn loom]

How much are you cropping?

[boreal vessel]

This is the original image

[unborn loom]

And do the things i told you

Just do the things i told you

[boreal vessel]

I cropped it after I took the image

[unborn loom]

Obviously

Just do the things i told you

[patent zodiac]

I got this with my 25mm eyepiece, i just cropped the picture

[boreal vessel]

Mizar and Alcor

[versed crow]

Hi guys. I want some suggestions that this looks too cooked or is it ok? Last night's image of beehive cluster. Thank you

The purple line is not in the real image i don't know what discord did to the image 😅😂

[patent zodiac]

too much noise, did you try stacking

[versed crow]

No😅 it's 2 sec exposure and zoomed in around 65x

Single image

I don't use tracking mount for mobile astrophotography soo find it difficult to center the object

[patent zodiac]

Yeah i understand the pain, but try taking short exposures then stacking them

[versed crow]

How many shots should i take? Or it depends on viewing condition?

[patent zodiac]

Im not sure, atleast you need to have 50 short exposure but the images need to be clear without star trailing

[unborn loom]

As much as you can reasonably

[versed crow]

Ok thank you

[versed crow]

Ok suree

[boreal vessel]

Would this be any good for processing? (I can separate the frames btw so don’t worry abt that)

[patent zodiac]

Im not sure, i have never taken a video before of a deep sky object

[versed crow]

if you stabilize it(track it) and then record it and in pipp you put that video for processing and change the output type to tiff instead of avl then you'll get multiple frames and then stack the results will be much better and you'll get more frames with this methods

I tried this method on moon only cuz in 45 sec time i get 955 frames more or less. For DSO i use a monocular and my phone or camera(point and shoot ) soo that's why in DSO i can't get better framing. But moon is good

[boreal vessel]

I do have this method that’s less conventional, but it works just as well

[unborn loom]

@boreal vessel why did you make those images to a video?

Whats ur question again?

[boreal vessel]

Time lapse, it was always a video

[boreal vessel]

Is it good for stacking?

[unborn loom]

Oh ok

A video?

Why did you take a video?

[boreal vessel]

This

[boreal vessel]

Because I don’t want 300 photos in my iCloud

[unborn loom]

And why does it look so weird, it looks like a video made out of images

Oh wait it's sped up

[boreal vessel]

It’s a Timelapse made of 0.5s exposures

[unborn loom]

0.5sec exposures, wdym? Thought you said it was a video

[boreal vessel]

I said it was a time lapse, video because I didn’t merge the images

[unborn loom]

I'm confused but ok

Anyways i have no idea how good a video is for deepsky

Ur better off taking many short images than a video

[edgy talon]

no

do not crop

[unborn loom]

And delete them later

[boreal vessel]

It’s doing both

[edgy talon]

this is the best ive ever got doing .5s exposures

[unborn loom]

Ok so you have the 0.5 sec images? How many?

[boreal vessel]

As many in that video

Lemme do the math

[unborn loom]

Idk how much that is

[boreal vessel]

400

[unborn loom]

Ok

[edgy talon]

200s exposure

[unborn loom]

Stack the images not the video

[boreal vessel]

Not horrible

[unborn loom]

You might need to cut some out too

See what deepsky stacker gives you

[boreal vessel]

I know

[boreal vessel]

Ok

I’m not at home rn so can I send you a short 5s clip and some calibration frames I took shortly after so I can get a demo and see if retaking it is a good option

Flat

Dark

Bias

[edgy talon]

good on you for taking calibration frames even with a phone

[boreal vessel]

5s clip

[edgy talon]

i just started when i got my uranus-c

[boreal vessel]

I really only took one this time for some… reason

[edgy talon]

okay me personally

go for something more brighter than ring, like a galaxy

bodes is very easy, heres a 10s exposure at 4.85

i got like 1000 of those

got this afterwards

[boreal vessel]

Also they might not be perfect because I took them a bit late (besides bias frames they usually are taken later?)

[edgy talon]

i take my calibration frames afterwards

*THIS IS NOT BY A PHONE
only took darks and bias, just started taking flats and darkflats

[boreal vessel]

Dark flats?

[edgy talon]

yes

put the cap back on and do the same exposure time

[boreal vessel]

Wait so what are darks then?

[edgy talon]

taking the same exposure as you did with your lights, dark flats are taking the same exposure that you did with your flats

[boreal vessel]

Ok

[edgy talon]

low do you have any other images

[boreal vessel]

Of other targets?

[edgy talon]

yes

[boreal vessel]

Ok let me find some

Ik this sucks but I made it quick

[edgy talon]

m13?

[boreal vessel]

Yea

These are of bodes and cigar

10mm eyepiece for both

But I do have 25mm eyepiece ones too

Wide field (with silly visitor)

[unborn loom]

I don't think calibration frames work like that

If you think about it

Ur frame is not flat, it's a ring. It's not connected directly with the telescope etc

[boreal vessel]

These are real calibration frames instead (bias frames are still all good)

So yeah for the ring nebula I gotta try that one again

[boreal vessel]

Mars unstacked (Stellarium for comparison) not at home so no stack :(

[void adder]

What was the bortle you saw this?😃

[chilly vessel]

mars w 6se and s21 ultra

[boreal vessel]

7

[cobalt brook]

What's calibration frames?

[edgy talon]

Darks capture the thermal noise of the camera, you capture these by leaving your scope in the same conditions, just with the cap on and the same exposure time. Bias frames are your cameras shortest exposures with the cap on. Flats are where you take exposures with a t-shirt and a white light, you expose them with 1/3 - 1/2 of the histogram, dark flats are where you take the t-shirt off and put the cap back on, using the same exposures as you did with your flats.

Bias frames capture the noise from your iso or gain

Flats get rid of vignetting and dust on your camera

Or telescope optics

And I'm not sure what dark Flats do

[white kraken]

dark flats remove noise from your flats

like darks for light frames but for flat frames

[edgy talon]

thank you, that's what I thought they did

[cobalt brook]

Thank you @edgy talon I'm now very confused hehe.... I'm a very big amateur stargazer haha

[edgy talon]

its just images to make your image better

[cobalt brook]

K, my photos are trash anyway

What's this? I took it a while ago

Oh! It's the Subaru logo galaxy isn't it?

[boreal vessel]

Subaru logo galaxy 💀💀💀

[cobalt brook]

[boreal vessel]

I have a horrid idea

It involves making the B.A.T. But with phones instead of fancy cameras

The only issues are that I don’t have a name, and it’s gonna be hard to convince people to join it lol

[edgy talon]

this has actually happened before

some guy was gonna do an untracked BAT

[boreal vessel]

Not the same as phone

[edgy talon]

if you wanna do it go for it

ill send my bodes data

or ring,

or pinwheel

[boreal vessel]

I first have to make sure that this is any good

All I know, I’m not gonna be the best host for this lol

[edgy talon]

i could be the host actually

use my old data and do bodes or whatever i got

okay

If anyone would like to do a BAT (Big Amature Telescope) of Bode's galaxy and Cigar galaxy, please react here and shoot me a DM, we will do this all in here or a group chat, idk.

[potent gorge]

There is one

[edgy talon]

where?

i got tracked data with a phone but i would still love to mess with it

[potent gorge]

We have an untracked BAT dm

[edgy talon]

add me

[potent gorge]

Do you do untracked

[edgy talon]

nah but i wanna see yalls data

[potent gorge]

I can show you mine

[edgy talon]

dm me it

[potent gorge]

here

[edgy talon]

oh shit thats nice

[potent gorge]

comet ZTF this was ass

startrails

[edgy talon]

atleast you got it man

[neat flame]

130mm
1 sec expo
500xstacked

[potent gorge]

that was the hardest thing i did shooting ztf mainly bc i was rushing

hmmm interesting

[neat flame]

M4