Phone Astrophotography

[iron bear]

In the left corner of the video you can see a bunch of geostationary satellites. As I was with sidereal tracking, and geostationary satellites remain fixed in the same location with the rotation of the earth, they end up moving this way.

[unborn loom]

Nah

[wild flame]

Also not much more data to extract since a 10x telephoto can only do so much

[edgy talon]

flats

[iron bear]

Carina Nebula reprocessing

• The mirror was pinched at this time
  .
  📋Exif:
  🔭 Toya 114/900, eyepiece 20mm 68° svbony. Eq3 with unguided onstep
  📷 Xiaomi Mi9T (IMX 586)
  ⚙ 304x20s ISO 1600
  📌 Contryside of São Paulo. Bortle 3

[amber dome]

Dayum

[potent gorge]

Carina is so sexy

Especially with a phone

Keyhole looks pretty good

[iron bear]

the hubble version

[wind spoke]

w h a t

[patent zodiac]

The nebula showed the middle finger, it doesnt like being photographed

[iron bear]

The jumps? It´s just dither.

I just made a timelapse with the frames of a photo... The intention was not to make a timelapse with this data...

[unborn loom]

Exactly

[lone mica]

New comet

On a more serious note: I think you should align the phone to the eyepiece more perfectly

[wild flame]

ah

thats the thing

im not using a telescope 💀

[lone mica]

Binos?

[wild flame]

phone camera

[lone mica]

Hmm

[wild flame]

S22 Ultra is quite a nice phone

especially the 10x telephoto

[unborn loom]

Yeah

[boreal vessel]

I bought an astrocam but that doesn’t mean I don’t do widefield

[iron bear]

💀

The guy doubting my photo because has a spike and I use my cell phone with an eyepiece

[fair trellis]

Does he know that there is such thing as secondary mirror spider vanes

[iron bear]

He knows... But according to him, diffraction could not occur through the eyepiece. The guy thinks that the diffracted light just mysteriously disappears

[fair trellis]

Lol

He never did visual with a newton

[lone mica]

💀

I died reading that

[spring viper]

Oh no, diffraction spikes through eyepiece

[sick rain]

Reprocess

[surreal jasper]

Ringnebula on a iphone 11 through a 200mm newtonian

[amber dome]

May I process your stacked image

[sick rain]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-gGoK2_RmpHVKPyCJ4cHMhy79OApVMeg/view?usp=sharing

[edgy talon]

get more

[fiery rover]

I first thought my Telescope wasn't collimated

But then I figured out

[crude ravine]

there. fixed it (mostly).

[fiery rover]

Master @iron bear, my phone has a Samsung HM2 sensor...is it any good for Astrophotography???

[smoky scaffold]

rip

[cobalt brook]

Should I be videoing to get better photos then?

[fiery rover]

For planets yes...and for dso too...you could try...you can set higher exposures but you will have to track the object after short periods of time

[cobalt brook]

Yeah I don't have a tracking mount so....

[edgy talon]

no not with dso

[edgy talon]

Fireworks galaxy through binoculars

[smoky scaffold]

are you sure

[chilly vessel]

dayum bro got some dark skies

[fiery rover]

Why??? I've seen people doing it

[fiery rover]

If you set your fps high you don't need one

[wind spoke]

My best widefield so far

[unborn loom]

Because you use RAW and don't need 60 frames per second.

Longer exposure time is always better

[fiery rover]

Really ???

I didn't know that

So there's no problem recording at 4K 30fps???

But doesn't higher FPS mean more frames thus more detail in postprocessing

[cobalt brook]

In pro video should I turn on tracking autofocus ?

Also in pro video I cannot record raw, that ok?

[chilly vessel]

You can turn it on if the object stays in frame

wouldn't work as well for deep space objects tho

[cobalt brook]

Stars or planets ?

[chilly vessel]

For planets it is btr

[cobalt brook]

Thnx

[chilly vessel]

stars, unless the star is fairly bright, try not to

[cobalt brook]

Ok so should I just keep if off?

I guess I was thinking of using it for planets tho not stars

Still need to figure out why my star photos turn out the way they do

[chilly vessel]

hm

[chilly vessel]

Sure

[cobalt brook]

Like this is my star photos... dng is the image type that the phone takes

Are you able to view that photo ?

[chilly vessel]

Yes

Might want to do an online file type transfer

Dng to png

Don't do jpeg

[cobalt brook]

Here's my photo setting it took it in as well

[cobalt brook]

Hmm let me check into this

Lost all of its quality 😦

Why does the iso go to 400? And I can't change that either btw (at least using expert raw mode on astrophotography mode I can't)

[chilly vessel]

Pretty sure it calculates the correct iso usage, or what it thinks it is

[cobalt brook]

Ok so it should be good shooting in 400?

[chilly vessel]

Looks good regardless

[unborn loom]

Longer exp time is bettet

Are you talking about deepsky?

[fiery rover]

No

I'm talking about pro shot

[unborn loom]

Whatt

[fiery rover]

Lucas Goncalves uses pro shot

[unborn loom]

Deepsky?

[fiery rover]

My master

[fiery rover]

Decadence

[boreal vessel]

Who did it better?

[smoky scaffold]

dash

[iron bear]

The iPhone's Noise Reduction AI is very bad; Leaves the photo full of artifacts and without details

[iron bear]

Because it is 108mp, it will not be as good at astrophotography. But I believe you can take good photos if you take longer exposure times.

[edgy talon]

just, no

[iron bear]

Infrared sensor in the cell phone camera is more of a hindrance than a help. The deepskycamera developer had to cover his cell phone's sensor with tape because it was generating reflections in the eyepiece. Basically it is useless in astrophotography.

[cobalt brook]

@iron bear not sure I understand that tbh?

[iron bear]

What the doubt?

[cobalt brook]

No just what you mean by that ?

Do you know why my photos are always so bright ?

[iron bear]

, I had seen that the autofocus IR sensor was highlighted. I thought there was a doubt about this

[iron bear]

Dso´s?

[cobalt brook]

No just star photos

[iron bear]

Stars are also considered Dso. Is it getting bright because of light pollution? Depending, if the photo is in raw, there is no file exposure compensation to reduce the effect.

[cobalt brook]

Dng file cuz of the mobile phone version of raw but yeah

[iron bear]

This raw is compressed. Use deepskycamera

[cobalt brook]

Deepskycamera confused me

Confuses*

[iron bear]

At first it seems more complex, but you will have to learn . Not so difficult

That raw you envied is compressed and Pixinsight can't even read it. It's probably a processed raw (Just like iPhone raw) It's not real raw

[cobalt brook]

It's a raw photo taken from expert raw on android

Samsung*

[iron bear]

Precisely, it is processed raw. It's more like a PNG+

[fiery rover]

Thank you master...my camera is not always set to 108mp...I have to set it on 108mp...otherwise it sets itself automatically at 12mp

[iron bear]

Yes, it is in BIN x4. But the original pixel size is still smaller. Conversion is not 100% efficient

[cobalt brook]

So expert raw is not a good idea?

[iron bear]

Not for serious astrophotography. I would only use it for some tests

[cobalt brook]

Damn, I really enjoy it because it does long shots composed of a bunch of smaller shots.... also it has the stars built into it 😔

[ember nebula]

I noticed that too, I took a picture of the floor and there were stars

[smoky scaffold]

💀

fake stars is new

[iron bear]

The fake stars you are talking about are probably hotpixels.

[fiery rover]

Damn

[cobalt brook]

No no, I mean it has a star tracking thing built into the camera

[fiery rover]

Really??

I'm buying a Samsung 20s ultra

[fiery rover]

😳😳😳😳😳

[fiery rover]

If you can find a way to mount it on the telescope pointing at the direction of where the telescope is pointing you could even use it as a tracking device

[cobalt brook]

@iron bear check photo I sent

[cobalt brook]

Yeah I know, I've thought of that as well......

[fiery rover]

It's a great idea if it's actually accurate

The feature

[cobalt brook]

I could probably even take it to a super dark spot and use the phone to take photos through the telescope with that mode

[iron bear]

This is just a locator to let you know where the stars are

[cobalt brook]

The only problem is that in expert raw, once you hit the camera button you can't see a live feed anymore

[rough chasm]

hello

[cobalt brook]

So I wouldn't be able to track, say for example, Andromeda Galaxy.....

[fiery rover]

If you know you've set the settings correctly this doesn't have to bother you

[fiery rover]

If you bought a motor drive you could

[cobalt brook]

Would things like Andromeda Galaxy move fast enough to have to adjust it every 4 minutes ?

[cobalt brook]

Too much $

[fiery rover]

It's 45 euros ...so around 65-70 CAD...but also it's not worth it because I just checked you have an alt-az mount

[fiery rover]

Through your Telescope?? Of course they would move very fast...but you could capture Andromeda by using just your phone if you can get to a pretty dark place

[cobalt brook]

R u certain? I had heard before that you can go up to about 6 minutes with no star trailing ?

Or maybe I'm wrong

[unborn loom]

whats ur question

[fiery rover]

Because of that feature...I was just joking 😂😂

[cobalt brook]

@fiery rover don't joke, Samsung's are amazing

[fiery rover]

Ik

But the amazing ones are a bit expensive for my standards

[unborn loom]

The feature is not worth it..

[dark ridge]

Guys.

According to good to stargaze

I am at bortle 10

[boreal vessel]

I’m in bortle 50 a lot of the time

It’s day

[dark ridge]

Lmao yeah

But the sky is blue

Its atleast beautiful

Here its white grey yellow brown

[iron bear]

Here it marks as bortle 9.5

[boreal vessel]

Tbh some dude will feel mean and make narrowband street lamps :)

[iron bear]

My city from ISS. There is no real bortle scale greater than 9. But if there is, I'm sure it would be more than 9 here 💀

[ember nebula]

And you still get those great images

[boreal vessel]

He moves to b4 sometimes lol

[cobalt brook]

Anyone have any solution to opening dng files in siril?

[boreal vessel]

PIPP? Idk man

[cobalt brook]

@iron bear btw deepskycamera also saves as dng not raw

[cobalt brook]

So.... why is it that "shot in raw" is always suggested yet when you "shot in raw" it saves it as dng and that is no good? I'm really confused

[smoky scaffold]

is dng not raw format

[boreal vessel]

I’m pretty sure a .tiff is more raw than that lol

[cobalt brook]

IDK?

Dng is just what my phone saves as and it seems like it's not good but that's what every phone uses

[cobalt brook]

Idk but no program I've tried opens dng format

Gimp, siril, apparently pixinsight

[boreal vessel]

Yeah uhh I’d say just use PIPP and pray to god

[tulip coyote]

So I have a IPhone 14 plus and I am having a hard time getting a decent shot of Jupiter and I keep getting a bit of glare which I am wondering if that is from humidity fogging up the lense on my telescope but this is the best I could really get

Now the problem I also think could be is that it was not taken with a Barlow lens and used pure iPhone zoom

[boreal vessel]

It’s not that

Your using an iPhone

[tulip coyote]

Fair enough

[boreal vessel]

I used to be the king of iPhone planets because of this ISS shot

This is my newest shot using a budget planetary camera

[iron bear]

Yes, but the deepskycamera dng is the normal dng and not the modified samsung dng

[cobalt brook]

@iron bear ok I'll try it again someday then

@iron bear did you see my dm?

[chilly vessel]

A single ping will suffice
Impatience will not

[cobalt brook]

I didn't mean to ping twice tbh

[smoky scaffold]

how much magnification is this

[boreal vessel]

2x Barlow

[spring viper]

M33

[edgy talon]

no?

you can shoot at .5 seconds max...

[cobalt brook]

@edgy talon oh ok, thank you!

[edgy talon]

yeah welcome to untracked

[cobalt brook]

So for deepskycamera

Anyone know setting to use ?

[unborn loom]

Dng is raw

[chilly vessel]

M6+M7?

[spring viper]

H x Persei

[spring viper]

M33

[cobalt brook]

[boreal vessel]

Very nice

I shall image that now too

[boreal vessel]

Also I still do occasionally use my phone for AP no worries

[fair trellis]

THIS IS NOT A PHONE IMAGE!! ⚠ This is the dwarf 2 pleiades compared to yours I don't know. Mine look cool . Yours too

[boreal vessel]

I may have detected some nebula FINALLY

[spring viper]

Bortle 8

[fiery rover]

Taken with Google camera app

Skywatcher Heritage 130p

Redmi Note 10 Pro

It's not stacked btw

It's a single image

[rocky delta]

DANNNNGGGGGG

[terse smelt]

wait then why is the edge green

[kindred zephyr]

DAMMNNN

[fiery rover]

It's a problem that occurred during the post-processing

I processed the picture on my phone

So it's not top notch quality

Today I tried minimising the effect

I think that if I actually processed the image on Astrosurface it would come it even better

But it's good for now

[fiery rover]

It occurred when I tried applying the vignette feature on the image

Apparently you have to be very careful when using the vignette

It can ruin your image

[boreal vessel]

Lol

[unborn loom]

Flame?

[boreal vessel]

And a teeny tiny bit of horsehead

[amber dome]

Mon

[red fulcrum]

mon👍

[wind spoke]

yayyy

single sub of Omega neb

[edgy talon]

looks weird

just something abt it

how is one part of the moon in focus and the rest is out of focus?

looks oversharpened too

[smoky scaffold]

yeah it looks like too much contrast or black point

[fiery rover]

Yeah I think I overdid it a bit with the black point 😅😅😅

The second version is better though

[fiery rover]

I also corrected that with the second version

I will download Snapseed to see what I can do better

[spring viper]

M33
Redmi note 7
SW eq3-2 with terrans OnStep
Defective 23mm eyepiece
Powerseeker 114/900
Reprocess

[spring viper]

There is not enough exposure for this subject and it is worth working with the background later. My bortle is 8

[unborn loom]

I see it!

[patent zodiac]

The noise is killing me, we both need to work on noise reduction

[boreal vessel]

I gotta shoot more data lol

[edgy talon]

wtf

[boreal vessel]

That’s what I’m saying

[formal notch]

your stars are terrible

[spring viper]

Today I'll process this photo

42min in bortle 8

[spring viper]

Shooting in jpeg is a bad idea

[edgy talon]

Used too

Look at the stars

[unborn loom]

Seems iphoney yeH

[unborn loom]

Unlucky

[elder birch]

Main thing is if you’re happy with the images.

One thing to consider with jpeg (or any compressed format) is that it reduces the ability to edit. Stretching the image might result in colour banding or clipped shadows/highlights

[unborn loom]

Jpeg doesnt really have noise

Or at all

Raw has color noise

[smoky scaffold]

so you’re saying if you shoot in jpeg then you won’t have any noise? got it

imma shoot in jpeg from now on

[unborn loom]

Have fun

[spring viper]

Beautiful nebula

Horrible data

[wind spoke]

Auroras from last night

[edgy talon]

andriod

[unborn loom]

Intresting

[elder birch]

Depends on the app and how it’s processed

[magic trout]

what would get better results with an iphone 13 pro: stacking raw pictures of the moon or recording 4k60fps and stacking?

[smoky scaffold]

recording

its much faster too

[magic trout]

oki thxx

[smoky scaffold]

a couple artifacts idk how to get rid of

[fair trellis]

Probably collimation

[patent zodiac]

Collimate ur scope

[boreal vessel]

Why does that look the exact same as my old phone photos

[cobalt brook]

I wish I could get that

[patent zodiac]

Save for an astro cam

[cobalt brook]

No, I'm saving for a seestar s50

[patent zodiac]

This is what i got with my asi224mc

[cobalt brook]

That's awesome!

[patent zodiac]

Yeah, what scope you got?

[cobalt brook]

Equip in bio

[patent zodiac]

[cobalt brook]

Sorry I hate having to type it out

[patent zodiac]

You could get a better mount and an asi224mc, i think that you can get the skywatcher az gti motorised mount and the asi225mc will be good

Thx

ASI224MC

Where did you get the 225? It says 224

[cobalt brook]

Idk man, I can't afford to buy a mount, already went down that path and then discovered the seestar s50 and fell in love as if fits my style of astronomy.... very amature 🤣

Like bro, if I can take photos like this and still use my telescope to view planets etc.... I'm happy https://discord.com/channels/794642864218439681/1104838820941275336

[fair trellis]

Think about the dwarf 2 and seestar and compare both of them by the aspects like transportation, weight, modification and ease to use.

Because both are amazing little scopes

[edgy talon]

why?

a seestar is the lazy way in astrophotography

[gilded relic]

Guys what ISO shall I use when photographing the Orion nebula

It's a S 20fe

While using 30 sec as exposure time

With a relatively well tracked mount

And how many pictures will I need to get the most details on the nebula

Will I need to also use dark , flat and bias pictures too?

Please answer it all in one text

It's a 114mm Newtonian Reflector

[sick rain]

Don't expect a result from the first try. Just experiment. Pretty sure no one has the same exact equipment.

[cobalt brook]

It may be lazy but it produces results that I would be more than happy with and if I were to do it the "non lazy" way it would cost me 10x more

[edgy talon]

Just get a uranus-c

[cobalt brook]

Again, that goes down the path of, ok now I need a tracking mount and guess what now my telescope isn't powerful enough to produce decent photos so gotta buy a new scope ....

[gilded relic]

Is it better to use 3200 for ISO or lower ISO

Like 800 or 1800

Is there a big difference between them cause I need to get the most details on Orion nebula

[smoky scaffold]

im with you on this lmao, i’m also trying to save for a seestar. it’s literally designed for beginners, and seems like a good deal for the images it produces

[cobalt brook]

100%!!!

[sick rain]

To get a good Orion Nebula image where the core is not completely white, you need an HDR composition. There are many tutorials on that. High ISO makes your image brighter.

[edgy talon]

untracked uranus-c could beat a see-star

that zwo robot thing, whatever its called

[edgy talon]

yeah thats good

do 30's, get a decent image, send stacked tiff

[cobalt brook]

I agree

And I understand your point, but I don't have the budget to buy into Astrophotography and do it proper

• what the seestar produces pleases me enough

[fiery rover]

Just snapseed

No stacking...nothing

Much better than my last one

This one is a bit more natural looking

Idk which one is better

[magic abyss]

heritage my beloved

[edgy talon]

Your limited by the scopes tiny aperture

Get a used 8" dob and a uranus-c and your good to go

[unborn loom]

not for deepsky

i actually dont know how good it would be for deepsky but doesnt sound good

correct me

[edgy talon]

uranus-c is very capable for DSOS, and you can do untracked

[unborn loom]

Still

[edgy talon]

bro hush

but yeah the uranus-c is capable for DSOS, the weakest link with a dob and uranus, is being untracked and more narrow

[cobalt brook]

Still, the seestar s50 is a better fit for me, so yeah

[smoky scaffold]

it’s way more portable

[cobalt brook]

Yeah, but also for a amateur stargazer like me.... it gives me photos that I'm happy with and that's what matters so...

[cobalt brook]

How do I download astrohopper on my other phone?

It's not on playstore ?

[potent gorge]

Huh

[edgy talon]

stretch

[smoky scaffold]

whys it look like clay

[unborn loom]

Haha

[unborn loom]

A bit too much blur reduction

[amber dome]

Shoot in raw 😭 (if you don't)

[fiery rover]

My very first stacked image of the moon

Redmi Note 10 Pro

Skywatcher Heritage 130p

[boreal vessel]

That moment when you get 2 minutes of signal

[chilly vessel]

what target is this

[boreal vessel]

Wait wrong channel lol

[terse smelt]

you can't do deep sky to save your life dear god

[smoky scaffold]

fr like is this just bad processing or what

[terse smelt]

prolly bad processing

wait nvm he can do deep sky to save his life

[smoky scaffold]

can or can’t

[terse smelt]

can, posted some good images that I haven't seen

[smoky scaffold]

oh yeah you’re right

[edgy talon]

id like to see you do it then

[edgy talon]

💀 💀💀

#1157435680939593828 message

[smoky scaffold]

dude took it personally

[boreal vessel]

It was 2 minutes of data lol

[boreal vessel]

This was

[edgy talon]

i ain gon let no one mess with my boy

[boreal vessel]

And plus I have things to fall back on if DSO fails

[terse smelt]

your good on planetary can't deny that

[frigid dove]

Single shot of the moon five days ago

My university lets me use the scopes whenever so I get access to a 14" SCT whenever I please

[unborn loom]

DAMNN

Dream

My school does have a telescope, but as far as i know it's a 5" or a 6" eq3, so nothing impressive

I haven't seen it yet, but god i hope it's not a powerseeker or something like that

[edgy talon]

i got the best scope in my school, when october 14 comes around im gonna live stream the eclipse

[patent zodiac]

My middle school bought a telescope, it was a celestron 130 astromaster😂

[potent gorge]

bro one of my teachers in my schools whos got a phd has an 8" dob at school

hes got some solar telescopes as well

[boreal vessel]

Gimme

[potent gorge]

i dont recall them being by lunt or soemthign else

but he had an eqm-35?? or a heq5

[boreal vessel]

He’s probably in this server, lurking…

[fair trellis]

give me

[fiery rover]

Bruuuuuh

[patent zodiac]

I wanna heq5 goto

[weak lintel]

S23U aurora on Sept 25 over germany

To bad the raw broke so I just have a bad version as a jpg left:(

[ornate void]

The moon

[ember nebula]

Earth

[ornate void]

ok fine i admit it im living on the moon 😔

[ember nebula]

Knew it

[terse smelt]

Hercules cluster

[edgy talon]

More data

[patent zodiac]

Ey bro can you help me with stacking my orion data? I cant send you them rn but i can send it when im back from school

[edgy talon]

Just get deepskystacker

[patent zodiac]

Yeah somethings wrong with mine

[edgy talon]

Damn

[queen zealot]

Have you considered using a webcam instead of a phone

Might have more luck. Phones can do wide field stars but for planets I wouldn’t bother

[iron bear]

To do it with your cell phone, you need the right eyepieces. will be better than a webcam that doesn't disable noise reduction

My last one with a phone. 6mm eyepiece + 2x barlow with 114mm telescope.

[smoky scaffold]

this is my last saturn pic with the exact same specs 😭

ps1 version of yours

[iron bear]

Pls, disable the noise reduction

Use any professional video recorder. Filmic pro type. You can disable video noise reduction

[smoky scaffold]

wdym by that

ill check out filmic pro later tonight

[iron bear]

I use this on my current cell phone.

It´s the ProShot.

[iron bear]

Leave NoiseReduction at OFF.

[queen zealot]

Noise reduction is bad if it’s done on camera

You want to apply it in post after processing, having a pixelated mess and working from that data won’t produce good results

Like $10 if you get a second hand webcam

[tulip coyote]

I have seen some web cams do a pretty good job. I dod have a telescope camera, SV205, not the best one there is but I just need a better telescope, and why I say that is my focal length is to short to the point its a bit blurry with cameras. I am getting a new telescope in the mail soon so I am hoping that might help out

[unborn loom]

Whats ur question

[cobalt brook]

What is this? What app?

[floral barn]

ProShot app. It is for recording videos with a higher bitrate and without noise reduction. Good for planets

[cobalt brook]

This?

@floral barn does it capture in real raw ? My phone captures raw but saves as dng which according to a lot of people actually isn't real raw?

[floral barn]

It continues capturing in mp4, as there is no raw in video. But as the bitrate is much higher and there is no noise reduction, it is as if it were raw.

[unborn loom]

Different account

[floral barn]

I'm on my cell phone. I leave the other account only on the computer 😅

[cobalt brook]

@floral barn can't decide if it's worth using, my phone already has expert raw mode

[iron bear]

This app is for making videos at a higher bitrate. For long exposure photos there are better ones like Deepskycamera. And I wouldn't use expert raw, because the raw it doesn't have the same level of information as true raw. The expert raw gives you a slightly processed raw.

[chilly vessel]

How'd you get such good photos?
Do I just need a more powerful eyepiece

i couldn't realistically go past this
this is with 12.5mm ep (25+2x barlow)

[terse smelt]

more powerful eyepiece+a tracker

[chilly vessel]

alr

[terse smelt]

although a tracker isn't as necessary, given I don't use a tracker lol

[fiery rover]

I have a 10mm eyepiece and I can stack 2 Barlows of 2x and 3x magnification so I can get a 5x magnification...is this good enough ???

5x barlow with a 10mm eyepiece means 325x magnification

And I could possibly push it to 395x

[wind spoke]

Hey

[fiery rover]

Welcome to the server!!

[valid sandal]

hello, so i am trying to remove the vignetting i get in my pictures. i'm trying to take some flats. i am not happy with the result. first picture is without flats and second is with flats. what do you think is happening?

i'm using sequator to process

[unborn loom]

Second is better

[iron bear]

1.3h of earth rotation with the phone on equatorial mount

35s iso 100 shots. Xiaomi 12 + eq3

Contryside of São Paulo, Brazil. Bortle 3 with full moon

[rough chasm]

Bros imaging stars at day time

[fiery rover]

The earth is flat 🤓🤓🤓

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[boreal vessel]

Use siril background extraction

[iron bear]

Long exposure with full moon turns night into day!

[ember nebula]

30s sub, bortle 1-2

[smoky scaffold]

anyone wanna try and edit this? it’s andromeda galaxy

yes i know it’s hella trailed

[patent zodiac]

Boy u even gote some dust lanes

[patent zodiac]

You goin crazy

[smoky scaffold]

yes i’m very proud

[elder birch]

A quick histo stretch and colour balance brings out some of the dust lanes a bit more

[smoky scaffold]

i tried my best to get the satellites and dust lanes

[elder birch]

From the background it looks like your phone might not have been perfectly lined up (orthogonal) to the eyepiece.

I found 2 things helped this; a sturdy adapter (or tightening the screws on your current one), and checking the alignment inside against a pure white area of wall, e.g. if you see dark rings try changing alignment or distance from the eyepiece

[fiery rover]

it's fixable...if someone has Photoshop he can easily fix this... unfortunately I don't but I have found a very helpful video explaining how to do it

[smoky scaffold]

yeah you’re right, it’s hard to get it perfect
unfortunately my adapter is a cheap one that came with the scope, i can’t adjust the distance from the eye piece

i do check the alignment facing something bright but when i screw on the eyepiece it probably messes it up a little

[edgy talon]

here are some basic siril functions that will help you: Color Calibration, DBE, crop down till non coma effected stars, run green noise removal

[smoky scaffold]

what does coma mean

[edgy talon]

Star look like comet

Not pinpoint

[patent zodiac]

1

[fair trellis]

two

[unborn loom]

3

[patent zodiac]

4

[potent gorge]

69

[fiery rover]

@potent gorge your messages can get very wild sometimes 😂😂😂

first

the Carina nebula

then

this

[bronze jackal]

Mysterious curved artifact photobombs my image

[bronze jackal]

Hello winter sky, been a while

[atomic rampart]

Stacked 110×20s

Vs not stacked 20s

[torn arch]

finally got out to a bortle 3-4 from my bortle 7

specs:
Samsung S22 Ultra (wide, 10min and 7min exposure times respectively)

Some Cheap 5$ Chinese Phone Tripod

Adobe Lightroom (just for on the go)

[runic kelp]

My solar filter arrived yesterday and i got some crummy pictures of the sun with my iphone 7 + powerseeker 70az

Wish i could capture what my eyes see 😢

[sick rain]

Don't say I should dither because I can't do it now

[edgy talon]

welcome to astrobiscut boy

[edgy talon]

🚶‍♂️

[atomic rampart]

Yes

[edgy talon]

@atomic rampart @simple crow are my boys I fw them 24/7

[simple crow]

onb

[bronze jackal]

buzz

[fiery rover]

is that the Orion nebula in the background ??

[patent zodiac]

What does dithering do?

[patent zodiac]

BUZZ

[bronze jackal]

It's jupiter

[fiery rover]

are you sure it looks like a nebula

[bronze jackal]

Yeah it definitely is, its just way brighter than all the stars so it's way over exposed and the shape is just because phone camera probably

Orion is in this one though

In the bottom right

[sick rain]

Orion constellation from Bortle 5

[fiery rover]

damn that's amazing!!!

[fiery rover]

oh ok 😅😅😅

[sick rain]

And widefield

[edgy talon]

Dbe

Bernard's loop is crazy tho

And rossete

[smoky scaffold]

ring nebula

i can’t do anything about the donut shape

[cobalt brook]

How?!?

[patent zodiac]

What about my ring

[smoky scaffold]

astro shader

the phone was iphone 11 pro

[smoky scaffold]

now that’s insane

is this tracked

[patent zodiac]

Yeah

I need to work on my noise

[terse smelt]

that means you need to bring the phone farther from the eyepeice, or closer both can happen

[smoky scaffold]

my adapter doesn’t allows that

[terse smelt]

lol

[smoky scaffold]

don’t laugh 😭

[terse smelt]

i mean mine doesnt either i just tilt the phone up while it is inside the adapter

[fiery rover]

iPhones suck 🤮🤮🤮🤮

[terse smelt]

phones suck*

i say this as a phone user

[fiery rover]

😆😆😆

[smoky scaffold]

it’s not like i’m choosing my phones for which is best at astrophotography though

it just happens to be the only camera i have on me

[fiery rover]

yeah I know...no one does...

if anyone did

he would be crazy

[fiery rover]

oh shoot...that's unfortunate

but just saying

iPhones suck

👍

generally

you are some type of cult

that do dark magic

[smoky scaffold]

😭

[smoky scaffold]

i agree with you, my battery drains even if i’m not using it

[fiery rover]

yeah...that's a known problem with the 11 series...but I have to admit...your phone (at least my friend's) has super smooth performance

it's like cutting through butter with a knife

[smoky scaffold]

it’s actually my sister’s phone, i have an iphone se (which can’t even do long exposures)

[fiery rover]

iPhone se can't take long exposure shots??? then why does it cost that much??? Every phone in this price range can take long exposures

[smoky scaffold]

it’s like $150 on amazon

[visual burrow]

This is the jupiter im able to see

Any way to actually see detail?

[elder birch]

For a single image lower the exposure time, lower the ISO and check the focus is sharp 👌

Lucky imaging and stacking many images from a video is how you see those amazingly detailed shots

[visual burrow]

Ohk

What soft should i use

I got 20 gbs free space in ssd

[smoky scaffold]

pipp, autostakkert!3, and registax to edit the stacked picture

[visual burrow]

Ok

[smoky scaffold]

yeah astrosurface is pretty reliable since you can do the stack and processing in the same program

[elder birch]

😂 🤦‍♂️ Apologies just saw that - have a bad connection and a sometimes messages don’t load

[cobalt brook]

Any help ?

I have a 1 minute video that I am trying to use pipp to change to avi but it keeps failing

[cobalt brook]

Any help plz?

[smoky scaffold]

are you using pipp (nvm i see you just said that)

if it’s still not working then you probably don’t have enough space

i had the same issue and it was i was out of space

[cobalt brook]

I don't believe I'm out of space ....

Either way, I'll try to store it on my hard drive

[smoky scaffold]

what file type is the video

[cobalt brook]

It worked on hard drive

[vale wren]

Just for fun I tried stacking you video but the pic isn't very good

[cobalt brook]

@vale wren I don't have a very good telescope tbh, and the photo I sent just now is my 1 min stacked photo

[vale wren]

okie

[cobalt brook]

It isn't great is it 🤣

[vale wren]

don't be discouraged, almost everyone's first pictures looked like this or worse. When I tried to take a picture of Jupiter with my 60mm powerseeker and smartphone, it was much worse than yours

[smoky scaffold]

i mean there isn’t much you can do with a phone camera

[vale wren]

yeah, you can get a planetary camera for around $100 and get something like this that I took

[fiery rover]

damn...which camera do you have ??

sv205??

it looks really really good for a 100 dollar camera

[muted sedge]

which telescope/eyepiece did you use?

[smoky scaffold]

orion starblast 4.5eq, plossl 25mm that came with it

[vale wren]

ZWO ASI 120MC-S planetary cam

[vale wren]

My gear is in my bio

[runic socket]

both on a skymax 127 mak with a 10mm eyepiece and a s20 phone

[fiery rover]

damn...I have a cat too that every time he wants to achieve something or get something from me he goes into the telescope box and he scratches it...cats are genius

[fiery rover]

yo...

[vale wren]

big rip

🔭 🟰 🪦

[fiery rover]

where did you buy the ZWO camera

??

I can't find it on the original website

[vale wren]

I bought mine from @sly bloom because he was upgrading. I think they discontinued it, but you can buy one used on ebay or marketplace I think

[fiery rover]

I'll give it a try...it's really a pity they discontinued the cameras

🫤🫤

[vale wren]

I see one on ebay for $150, but you may be able to get one cheaper

[fiery rover]

yeah I'll see...unless it's in China or EU eBay isn't really a thing for me...because otherwise I have to pay some 24% of the product's price

[vale wren]

oh

[fiery rover]

naaaah

on eBay

it costs 224 from Austria

that's not it

😂😂😂

[fiery rover]

I'm thinking about saving up for the brand new model asi678mc

https://astronomy-imaging-camera.com/product/asi678mc/

it has 4k at 47 FPS ☠️☠️☠️

low read noise

low temperatures

starvis 2

[vale wren]

probably a good call

[fiery rover]

or this one https://player-one-astronomy.com/product/neptune-664c-usb3-0-color-camera/

it has passive cooling

2.1k resolution

93 FPS!!!

[vale wren]

its a hexagon lol

[fiery rover]

the company says the shape of the camera is beneficial to its performance

[vale wren]

oof. mine gets like under 30fps

💀 💀 💀

[fiery rover]

are you kidding?? you must have the best 100 dollar camera on the market...

[vale wren]

its not that bad, it just means I have to take a longer video to get as many frames as you

[fiery rover]

I wish I could have your camera

you see

I don't want to spend too much money

you are super lucky

[vale wren]

same lol

I am saving up for a DSO rig rn

[fiery rover]

yeah...actually from my experience with a smartphone...30fps is pretty reasonable

[fiery rover]

do you know about the seestar S50??

[vale wren]

smartphones are lowkey kinda garbo

[vale wren]

no

[fiery rover]

well...have you seen what pictures @iron bear can take ??

[fiery rover]

damn

wait right here

https://youtu.be/kOOqbenutaw?feature=shared

[fiery rover]

with his smartphone??

it's crazy

[vale wren]

also the Stellina robot scope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znAhp0Upanw

[fiery rover]

wholly moly I know that scope!!!

it's super expensive

[vale wren]

yeah

[fiery rover]

the seestar costs 500

[vale wren]

a robot is cool and all but there's nothing like doing it yourself 👍

[fiery rover]

actually...that's true

[fair trellis]

I don't want to argue but in my opinion the dwarf 2 could beat it if the beta software included

[fiery rover]

dude the seestar firstly has a bigger aperture, inbuilt filters, better software and ITS STILL VERY VERY NEW!!! ITS STILL IN ITS VERY EARLY STAGES!!! Just imagine what it will be able to achieve in a few years

the seestar is only available for preorder

[fiery rover]

that means that there is still some work left

[fiery rover]

yes ok

I get it

but you didn't state your argument

[fair trellis]

Both scopes are amazing

[cobalt brook]

I'm going to be going for a seestar because it works perfectly for my lifestyle, just gotta convince the wife to let me keep my order once they tell me it's in stock

[cobalt brook]

What happened here ?

[iron bear]

I would not buy. The s50 uses a 250mm lens with an asi 462... Smaller sensor than a cell phone. Low quality

[edgy talon]

Just get a real telescope and not let a robot do all the work, where's the fun in that?

[cobalt brook]

@iron bear @edgy talon sorry but, if a little robot telescope can give me this while I use my own telescope to view the planets and show others Jupiter's moons etc, I am extremely happy! I don't need to spend thousands of dollars on expensive equipment this way

[edgy talon]

Dude if they're gonna make you pay for their robo-scope they could of atleast denoised it

[fiery rover]

they will remove moving noise...I read it from a dude in a forum that complained about the noise...the seestar is still very young and the app definitely needs some updating in the future

[edgy talon]

Moving noise???

It can't even dither???

[fiery rover]

Probably 😂😂😂

I have no idea

[edgy talon]

Dude if it can't even dither don't get it

[fiery rover]

Yeah there are some complaints right now in ZWO's main forum

[edgy talon]

You shouldn't be complaining about walking noise with a fully automated scope

[fiery rover]

They say they can fix it...idk I want to trust ZWO

the only MAJOR problem is that thing in the corners, which unfortunately can't be fixed unless they change the mount

it's because it's an ALT-AZ and not an eq

but I get it...an eq would be pricier

I remembered

it's called field rotation

and because all ALT-AZ mounts can't track objects with amazing accuracy, this is what we get 🫤🫤🫤

this is the only real edge that the dwarf 2 has over the seestar

[edgy talon]

Get a real scope with more aperture and get details

[fiery rover]

I have the Heritage 130p and I'll probably buy a cheap eq mount and a goto system if I actually find one 🫤🫤🫤🫤

[edgy talon]

Onstepped cg-4

[fiery rover]

isn't this model only compatible with one scope ?? That's where I get confused

[edgy talon]

No

[fiery rover]

@edgy talon then I can buy this one?? https://www.ebay.com/itm/295788365894?hash=item44de5c4846:g:XNEAAOSwo79knRd8&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwH%2FvX7bZfynryX%2BFnNBrPaxTtt4ESWKtlu95d9IaJTRhyr4tOqBKMgXko63t82cdKSvLwu6NA5f9o26leWzgAVJmQnPaHyjtrAJhi2sSHHru47XYLfQtIllOe1Ex4my4BGpy5f1BNKWsQiO0jx6%2B%2BVlf1fIgCLimFJV04DJcH2HhKAsjAfvSatjFkZEFm0ZJpZ8q4avVNTa6CM9x89rSLd98uOo5A8vFUjfcav5p8u0yTHjU8wYkPyvwjtkp1PnR1Q%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR9TMiuLoYg

or is it different??

[edgy talon]

Not so sure when it comes to onstep

[fiery rover]

🫤🫤🫤

[fair trellis]

Here is the dwarf 2 dumbell btw

They are fixing the noise issue

[fiery rover]

damn and thought seestar had way too much noise 😂😂

how much time is this??

I guess it's less than an hour

that could be why it has so much noise

[fair trellis]

The new software makes it soo much better

[fiery rover]

hmmmm...actually now this could be a threat for seestar

it looks pretty decent

low noise

but I can't really see much detail on the nebula...but that's because of the small aperture

[fair trellis]

Yeah

[edgy talon]

its trailed

[edgy talon]

atleast this doesnt have as much halos

[vale wren]

My first shot of the Orion nebula! Smartphone on 8" dob single 2 second sub 3200 ISO. Also the moon through same scope with phone

[fair trellis]

cmon it was a bad night

[fair trellis]

compression makes it sooo bad

[edgy talon]

No it wasnt

Does it track in alt az?

[fair trellis]

Yes but you can incline and it becomes eq

[spring viper]

Honestly, it's a useless thing. It is cheaper to buy a camera with a lens and a cheap tracker.

[plush palm]

how did u get 55s in single image?

[muted sedge]

My first go at the Ring Nebula
8" Dob, mobile phone!

I also got my best Orion nebula shots

[iron bear]

[plush palm]

I can only get 32 seconds

[unborn loom]

Xiaomi on top 👆

[plush palm]

DAMN bro it's amazing

What phone you have?

[sick rain]

From public binoculars

[runic kelp]

Bro i love ring nebula

So little so silly

[plush palm]

Yo dude how did U do that?

[bronze jackal]

Hyades cluster

[iron bear]

💀

There is no signal in the photo. It's just artificially masked

[smoky scaffold]

what’s that mean

[potent gorge]

theres no data

its artifically made an area to make it seem theres data

[smoky scaffold]

so it’s fake

[iron bear]

Discord does not convert file format

wait

[smoky scaffold]

💀💀

[iron bear]

The photo is real. He just shouldn't have caught the barnard loop or the horsehead.

[smoky scaffold]

i see

[terse smelt]

lmao

[sick rain]

I will screen record in a few hours

[edgy talon]

Ain't that just post-procesing

[edgy talon]

Please do DBE

[iron bear]

I know... He must have done it. Because it doesn't make sense to have the emissions signal when the background is full of noise and there is no signal.

[edgy talon]

L for him

Get more exposure tine

[wind spoke]

calibration frames

[wind spoke]

bortle scale?

that is good

[sick rain]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pOE3NgnIQAiXlz1pLt62gqg9ENxED7tn/view?usp=sharing uncut screen recording to prove that I don't fake data

@iron bear @potent gorge @edgy talon @smoky scaffold @terse smelt @plush palm

this is the "artificial masking"

[sick rain]

!!!This is not a finished process because I don't stop there. I would normally do better because as you can see The Orion nebula is overexposed. I would also fix the colors and denoise!!!

Also the stars here are poorly processed

[edgy talon]

Dude who actually cares

[smoky scaffold]

💀

[edgy talon]

Its just a good phone pic

If it's faked then sucks to suck then

[smoky scaffold]

video is still processing

[sick rain]

you can download it

[smoky scaffold]

me

[sick rain]

it really isn't but the loop is there which most people don't seem to agree with

[smoky scaffold]

wont let me do that either

nvm

[sick rain]

i will try to post it here

[sick rain]

good thing that worked

[edgy talon]

Phones naturally have a really low f-stop (around 1.4)

[sick rain]

I have done way better with this phone

[edgy talon]

You should be able to get the loop with enough int time, well done especially with broadband

[sick rain]

yeah I'm going to process about a total of more than 2hours in a moment

[edgy talon]

Yeah man go for it

[edgy talon]

💀

[smoky scaffold]

@sick rain damn thats pretty impressive

i see how you got the loop

[sick rain]

thanks

[ebon lion]

Some old pics I took with my phone and a 8" dob 3 yearsa ago:DD

[spice gale]

With my 6" flextube dob and my phone

[muted sedge]

DBE? What does that mean?

[muted sedge]

B 6

[wind spoke]

background extraction

[wind spoke]

cool pics you got from b6

[runic socket]

from last night

[iron bear]

Probably yes. Uses the same sensor as my old mi9T

I was doing some experiments with data from a friend in order to compare the noise of a modern cell phone vs DSLR.
Firt pic: Xiaomi 12, 60s iso 400 + 120mm guide scope F4
2: Qhy 294mc at ambient temperature. 180s gain 100 + 50mm lens f4
3: Canon 60d, 180s iso 800 + 50mm f4 lens

He ended up not taking a photo with the 294 refrigerated, but probably refrigerated it will be much better than the cell phone since the noise from the 294 at -10 reduces a lot

[fiery rover]

damn...what mount do you use ?

I remember you use the Toya 114/900 telescope, your phone and an on step goto system

[iron bear]

Mine is an eq3 mod. But my friend's it´s an Exos 2

[fiery rover]

exos is an excellent mount...how can you do all this stuff

it looks so good

I can't understand

you are magician

[iron bear]

Not in raw...

[fiery rover]

well...it's not actually raw...it's dng

that's why it's so bad

the noise

[terse smelt]

yeah but its close enough to raw

[fiery rover]

why can't we just be able to take raw images ??

[terse smelt]

first result

[iron bear]

Dng is just the raw format. Each type of camera has its own. Canon is Cr2, dedicated uses Fits, Fujifilm uses RAF. In the end it's all the same

[fiery rover]

but why do they say that Fits is the best ??

[terse smelt]

maybe it holds extra imformation aside from the image??

i dunno

[fiery rover]

probably

[iron bear]

Color depth and dynamic range.

[terse smelt]

ah that makes sense

more numbers to more picture

[iron bear]

The noise appears with raw... It disappears with jpeg.

[terse smelt]

yeah the s23 may have denoise in raw

s21 doesnt*

[iron bear]

Samsung can't use it as a parameter. Reduces noise even from their raw 💀

If you use deepskycamera it does not reduce the noise. However, when using the deepskycamera, the Samsung sensors make a lot of noise. Samsung sensors are not efficient for astrophotography in general

[terse smelt]

but you can use them

[iron bear]

The best cell phones for astrophotography that Samsung has, coincidentally (or not) use Sony sensors.

[terse smelt]

lol

[terse smelt]

wonder if its possible to get disks of the gallelien moons with a phone

[fiery rover]

they also discontinued the A7 series

😞😞😞

[terse smelt]

completely pointless, but would be funny

[fiery rover]

I have the redmi note 10 pro, using an HM2 sensor

is it gonna be that bad??

it has pretty low noise

the planetary and lunar photos and videos look pretty good

idk for DSO though

I haven't really tried since I live in a freaking 9 Bortle city

[terse smelt]

i dunno just see if its terrible

[elder birch]

Interesting and impressive.

Does your Xaomi have a binned sensor? Imagine that really helps noise reduction.

I wonder what the impact of the RAW converter is too. I know for iOS devices that as well as the standard noise-related DNG tags (NoiseProfile, BaselineNoise, etc) they have public and secret image metadata tags with noise reduction methods modelled per image. These only work if using an Apple implemented RAW converter.
I don’t have any experience with Android but suspect some of the OEMs might have some magic denoise tools that are device specific.

[iron bear]

Yep! 50mp with 12.5 output.

Similar to Bin 2 of the asi294mm.

I don't think it has noise reduction. It would be easily noticeable in the stacking... I calibrate the dark frames with cosmetic correction and the noise corresponds perfectly... If there was noise reduction, I believe it would be more intense in the dark. Therefore, it would not work perfectly with pixinsight's cosmetic correction.

[elder birch]

Wow nice!
Yes I doubt Xaoimi do anything to the raw data itself. And if you are using pixinsight for raw conversion it won’t have access to the custom devise processing.
Sounds like it’s just a solid camera 👏

[iron bear]

If I didn't have problems with the field being distorted by the eyepiece, I would continue taking photos with just my cell phone. But I want to take advantage of 100% of the field of my telescope

[elder birch]

Yes, that is a major limitation of afocal. Not sure I’ve ever heard any good approaches to this, except night-vision but that seems a bit different.

[plush palm]

Yall, my friend have an iPhone and he needs an astronomy camera app, is there any good recommendations?

[spring viper]

Astrophotography on a smartphone is good until you open it on a computer with a good monitor

[iron bear]

I process my astrophotographs on a 24-inch 2.5k monitor. Cell phone astrophotography is good if you know how to process it.

Currently there are several cameras with sensors the same size as cell phone sensors. The 585 and 533 for example...

[spring viper]

No matter what sensor the smartphone has, it will still be outperformed by the old Canon 550d for $60

There will be a lot of detail on objects, but there will not be good resolution

You lose image quality due to the additional number of lenses

[iron bear]

Are you sure about that?

[spring viper]

Yes

[iron bear]

.

A cheap DSLR has more noise than signal.

[spring viper]

More total exposure - less noise

[iron bear]

Don't you think it's a bit humiliating that a 500 dollar DSLR picks up less signal with twice the exposure time than a cell phone? I would add some more and get an asi 294.

[spring viper]

Canon 1000da

[spring viper]

What's the point of having less noise if the photo quality itself is crap?

On a smartphone there is indeed less noise and it is possible to get a lot of detail with a short shutter speed, but this has so many other disadvantages.

[iron bear]

The only disadvantage is having to use eyepieces.

Phone + eyepiece

[empty cove]

HOW????
the colours

[spring viper]

Really? Processing photos from an eyepiece is a very complex process that requires extensive experience and knowledge of the processing program. Crooked background, stretched stars, vignetting - this is about the eyepieces. But there is such a layer of people in society, their name is masochists.

[iron bear]

Blur x terminator + DBE already solves these problems you mentioned.

[spring viper]

This is my photo of the nebula through the eyepiece

[iron bear]

You just need to know how to process it. I process images from asi 294, 2600 etc for a long time with friends. I only apply what I know to my photos with my cell phone.

[iron bear]

I just saturated and calibrated with photometric color calibration...

[spring viper]

For the cost of an expensive eyepiece and phone, I’d rather buy a DSLR)

There will still be money left over for a coma corrector)

[iron bear]

Yes, I can. But why would I buy a DSLR instead of a dedicated camera when the cell phone will already have satisfactory performance? It's worth waiting a little longer and buying a dedicated one straight away.

[iron bear]

Generally, those who take photos with their cell phones use what they have in their pocket and don't buy one. It doesn't make sense to add the cost of the cell phone to the bill as the cell phone is not used solely and exclusively for astrophotography. Regarding eyepieces, mine didn't even cost 30 dollars.

[spring viper]

To fix image problems you need to use expensive software

[iron bear]

Exactly... And you're going to spend 500 dollars on a camera instead of continuing to take photos with your cell phone and saving up until you buy a dedicated one.

[iron bear]

The same ones that most astrophotographers use.

[spring viper]

I have not seen a pirated version of Pixinsight, only if the versions are very old.

[iron bear]

This is where many get frustrated... They think that with a DSLR they will get much better quality and in the end they end up not being able to do so due to other limitations. Anyway, (I) prefer not to spend that money on a DSLR if my cell phone is used for astrophotography and save it until I buy a dedicated camera. And that's what I'm doing. I know it's difficult, I'm young too. If it were easy, I would have gotten a dedicated one a long time ago.

[spring viper]

You can process my m42 photo if you want. Its 40min in bortle 7-8 with redmi note 7 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dm7YeWH_gV6OVb837WhCxeqZzYmG6PIr/view?usp=drive_link

I’m interested in your level of photo processing with good software

[iron bear]

But then the context is different... It's not the same thing as someone who has been doing astrophotography for a long time with a cell phone. In this case, it might be worth going for a DSLR before getting a dedicated one. I'm talking about those who already have more experience in the hobby and who use their cell phones.

[elder birch]

If your friend is up for testing a live stacking app, I’m working on one called AstroShader. It’s free and currently in public beta testing (still a few issues/bugs being worked through though)

[bronze jackal]

Finally get to see the moon for the first time in a while and thick fog says hello

[bronze jackal]

noisy single shot of jupiter handheld up to the eyepiece

[edgy talon]

Tracked?

[runic socket]

I have no idea how to use pipp, AS!3 or photoshop but I'm damm happy with that

Took about 3hrs to convert on pipp and to stack on AS!3 (it weren't even 5min of recording but nearly 20k frames apparently lol) but I'm damm impressed

[dense gorge]

Device? And how many frames?

Wow, jt's really good! I tried 1300 frames with S23 Ultra at 10x build in camera

Yes, sadly 10x camera have only 10Mpx. I captured 1300 raw frames and stacked by Siril and also cropped by Siril.

I didn't use

Bcs it's native on Linux 😅

[runic socket]

Ahh the Linux limits lol

I would suggest maybe finding a cheap Windows desktop pc (mine cost £50)

It got me this with a s20 phone

Yeah I was messing around in Ps, trying to teach myself haha

Working 😡

I work nights

Yep

And the annoying thing.... my new astro camera turned up today lol

Mars C-ii

I got a laptop to use it with so trying to download nina and that

https://player-one-astronomy.com/product/mars-c-ii-usb3-0-color-camera-imx662/

Yeah all I need now is a better telescope lol

It should be good for planetary of course but I want the dso's lol

Eventually I'll probably get a decent telescope but not this side of Xmas lol

[ebon lion]

Looks like ganymede wen u mirror the moon like that:D

[smoky scaffold]

yeah that’s what i was thinking

[fiery rover]

it's a bit oversharpened in my opinion

if you want to sharpen your image better use Astrosurface

[runic socket]

I was more playing around on PS but I will look into that program

[runic socket]

Lol it does now you mention it

[ebon lion]

:D

[runic socket]

Hopefully my new astro camera I got today will make it better

[ebon lion]

Shesh

[runic socket]

Thats orion, definitely needs improvement haha

[smoky scaffold]

if any of you guys use an iphone i highly suggest using astroshader

[edgy talon]

Stretch it

[runic socket]

What's that?

[edgy talon]

Put it into siril and autostretch

[knotty mica]

Jupiter, I took it with a 6" dobsonian and my phone

[spice gale]

Do you have a barlow lense?

[knotty mica]

Yeah

[knotty mica]

I’m using a 2x barlow lense and a 12.5mm eyepiece.

Next time I’ll probably try it with a 6mm eyepiece

[spice gale]

[fading bobcat]

[fading bobcat]

What barlow?

[fading bobcat]

10mm lens on a poor quality (replacing soon) phone adapter. Also planning to get a usable barlow.

The only time I've ever been able to see the bands visually.

[knotty mica]

2x

[fading bobcat]

Brand?

[fading bobcat]

Really cool. Since this is the a phone channel, may I ask what camera settings you had used?

[knotty mica]

Orion

[spring viper]

Redmi note 7
6mm, 2x barlow
SW 130pds
sw eq3-2 onstep
Autostakkert, registax

[spring viper]

My july data

Power

[spring viper]

The quality of detail in Jupiter's atmosphere will be amazing. With my 130pds i can clearly see some details in the atmosphere, and with 400mm there will be an excellent view in general

[tacit summit]

Milky way, 10 min exposure, used google snapseed, pixel 6a, second one is my andromeda galaxy with same phone

[smoky scaffold]

is that the milky way going across this line or just weird noise

orange star in the center is betelgeuse

[edgy talon]

Flats. Now.

[north spindle]

It is very noisy milk

[tacit summit]

@edgy talon how do i take those with a phone?

[edgy talon]

Find exposure that's at 1/3 - 1/2 the histogram

Use same iso

[floral parcel]

My first photos of the sun with my iPhone 13 and Celestron 50mm travel scope +solar filter

[smoky scaffold]

no filter?

[vale wren]

Please tell me you used a filter

[smoky scaffold]

doesn’t look like it 💀

[ornate void]

it looks like no filter for me

[vale wren]

RIP phone camera

[ornate void]

🫡

[vale wren]

hopefully he didn't look through the scope or finderscope 💀

[ornate void]

hopefully.

[floral parcel]

I used a filter

[vale wren]

Ok 😮‍💨

it did NOT look like it lol

[floral parcel]

That would not have gone well 😅

[ebon lion]

Thats nice:D

[spring viper]

Thanks)

With foggy mirrors)

Halo

[runic socket]

Best I could get for tonight

[chilly vessel]

what equipment r u using