Phone Astrophotography

[bronze jackal]

that got absolutely murdered by compression

[formal notch]

Very cool img

[nimble harness]

I wouldn't compress it

[bronze jackal]

I mean the discord compression

[coral cedar]

1 hour and 20 minutes of milky way

[iron bear]

Omega Centauri

📋Exif:
🔭 Toya 114/900, eq3 with onstep, 20mm 68 degree eyepiece
📷 Xiaomi 12 for capture. 14 frames of 60s ISO 400, totaling 14 minutes of exposure
📌 Contryside of São Paulo, bortle 4

[gusty zodiac]

interesting. I live in B5 and I could very easily see it, despite using a less aperture tele (80mm)

[gusty zodiac]

dang

my sis also saw something like that in december last year

during the Geminids meteor shower

I was inside getting ready at the time 😭

[spring viper]

Our community is currently searching for this meteorite; it most likely fell

[coral cedar]

Onstep?

Did you design it by urself?

I mean the onstep

Or maybe in here use onstep also?

Got stuck to build one

[iron bear]

yep

[iron bear]

I bought the controller ready-made from a local manufacturer here in Brazil. I only made the modifications to install it in my mount

[coral cedar]

You use arduino board, stepper motor and esp32?

[nimble harness]

I was running off of an awful setup. I just fixed it

[smoky scaffold]

how does a star twinkle that much

[ebon lion]

seems like a camera issue:D

[zealous scaffold]

there were a lot of cars driving by and their lights were going into my sensor, could be the cause

its also not a time lapse, my phone takes an exposure shot every few seconds then stacks them together live, could be something to do with that

its 4 mins of doing that and it cuts it down to 1 second, so

[ebon lion]

nu its cuz of noise or compression ig

[zealous scaffold]

i redownloaded the video and its still like that so idk

my phone doesnt shoot at the greatest resolution either so it could just be low resolution

[ebon lion]

ye

[smoky scaffold]

that is not me in the video btw

[nimble harness]

Bro I need a tracking mount so badly

I stacked and processed like 8 frames of the ring nebula and it is so small

[elder birch]

Do you have the option of a shorter eyepiece to the increase magnification?

[nimble harness]

Yes I have an 8mm eyepiece

I need to get a barlow tho

Also the 8mm eyepiece is awful

[iron bear]

Yep

[coral cedar]

60s with no trailing wow

[coral cedar]

We have same fl of telescope tho

[somber lantern]

Which motor

[coral cedar]

I guess nema 17

Wait 60s

You live in southern right?

That means its hard to do the pollar allignment

[vague warren]

4 min integration on my pixel 7 pro

Bit of auroras in the bottom left

[iron bear]

I do polar alignment by drift in Phd2

Take just 8 minutos +-

[ancient rampart]

Northern lights?

[coral cedar]

Impressive 60s drift allignment

[coral cedar]

Anyway how much error do you receive?

[iron bear]

arround 1-3 arc seconds

in polar aligment

and in the guiding, 0.78 arc/s total

but my eq3 is fully modified with bearings

[coral cedar]

So the bearing make the eq mount accurate?

[coral cedar]

Bro i just realize you said 8 minutes

💀

How did you do that

[iron bear]

Experience. Over time it becomes easier

I've always been doing drifting and didn't even know it. When I didn't have guiding, I zoomed in on the stars to see which way they were moving, indicating the polar alignment error. Only 1 year after learning this on my own, I found out that this was what the PhD drift analyze

[coral cedar]

Oh so extra guiding now?

[iron bear]

No... Guiding I mean is the extra camera that connects to the PhD guiding to correct the mount periodic error

[coral cedar]

Ohhh i see

Lmao sorry sorry

[bronze jackal]

Test

[bronze jackal]

I can't even tell which of those i enabled lens correction on

Anywhere here is a big dipper crop

[shy snow]

Going to Bortle 3.9 fir summer

Current plans to shoot are M 13, milkyway, and a star trail

Any more suggestions?

heres my FOV with respect to the moon

A bright ahh nebula would be nice

Im on latitude 22N

[zealous edge]

Orion Nebula is the brightest in the night sky, although it's hard to say whether it'll be visible enough or not due to your location

[shy snow]

Its too late for orion

[zealous edge]

Damn

[shy snow]

Looking for smth near zenith around sunset

Im going in early june

[nimble harness]

Rosette nebula might still be around

[fair trellis]

Dumbell nebula, m101, m51

[gusty zodiac]

lagoon nebula is a good one, you can also try trifid and N. America nebula but I'm not sure of their exact brightness

@shy snow ^

[iron bear]

Cooled phone? 🤓

Built in peltier in the case

I did some tests with the peltier's power set to minimum, and the noise has already reduced considerably. Basically, the noise of iso 400 is the same as that of iso 50 now. But with less hotpixel

Remembering, I live in Brazil, so this type of adaptation is worth it here. It's 18 degrees here now

[gusty zodiac]

though if you're going to a dark area, more things will be avalable for you to observe.

You can basically see the entirety of the Messier catalogue, a good amount of Caldwell objects (ie. C76, C75, C80 etc.) and a few others

^

[knotty mica]

Does an Aurora really count as astrophotography when it’s here on earth?

[gusty zodiac]

Wikipedia defines it as: "Astrophotography, also known as astronomical imaging, is the photography or imaging of astronomical objects, celestial events, or areas of the night sky."

In other words, yes

plus, you're still technically doing standard astrophotography of the stars behind the aurora soo...

[knotty mica]

True, thanks.

[spring viper]

Xiaomi

https://tenor.com/view/poco-poco-x3-pro-c4-watch-gif-6385724830373742725

[iron bear]

My new eyepiece
Will improve a lot my photos

Svony 20mm 68 degree at left and svbony 18mm UFF at right

edges

It's cloudy so I haven't been able to test with stars yet

[zealous edge]

What's the name of that new eyepiece? Like what would I search up to find it online

looks super high quality

[iron bear]

Svbony 18mm Ultraflatfield

Others brands have the same model. Like APM 18mm UFF

[zealous edge]

Thanks a lot!

[shy snow]

Would be challenging since its low in the west horizon in evenings

[shy snow]

Imma try lagoon

Not expecting much since its mainly h alpha

Imma have a go at it still

Any bright planetary neb still around?

Veil is bright as heck, but its a narrowband target : (

[spring viper]

Really big difference

[simple crow]

Since when was the camera sensor on the battery

Don't you want to put the cooler right near the sensor?

Hey I mean if it works it works

[shy snow]

Can anyone help me

Im tryna find a good laser to use instead of my finderscope

All the ones i find are press to use

Imm looking for a green one with a toggle switch

Thanks

[shy snow]

Damn insane

Looks natural as heck

[terse smelt]

yeah its actually one of those i dont despise, looks natural

[shy snow]

Id like to know the workflow

And how he captured the earthshine

I always fail at the earthshine part

[terse smelt]

i think some just use a full moon

[shy snow]

Doesnt line up very well

[terse smelt]

doing that would require lining up the liberations

[shy snow]

Some line up error

Dam i cant unsee it now

[terse smelt]

think that does point to it being a full moon

[shy snow]

Maybe idk

[terse smelt]

other than that, my only issues are the stars being a bit much and the glow around the earthshine being brighter than the earthshine

[shy snow]

F it im doing this technique, i need to get around this year's astrophotography comp at my local ap club

Nvm im not doing this

Maybe i should stop messing with others hard work

This aint even a perfect circle

[gusty zodiac]

yeah Ring and Dumbell, I can see both clearly from a B5 area from a low aperture tele so yea

[shy snow]

Visual?

[gusty zodiac]

yes

[shy snow]

Whao

Adding that to my list

[gusty zodiac]

I was also surprised

[shy snow]

What do you mean by low aperture?

How many mm

And fl?

[coral cedar]

There's a technique called HDR moon

Basically you take 3 photos, your current moon phase, full moon and over exposed moon

[coral cedar]

Yeah some line up error

Sorry for that fix that later

[shy snow]

Some people just use the earthshine instead of full moon

[shy snow]

Try and make it a perfect circle too @coral cedar

[coral cedar]

I mean your current over exposed moon

[coral cedar]

Haha yeah notice that earlier, but somehow, lazy to re edit again lmao

PPL aren't going to see that detail, welp if u see more detail

There's a blur also

[shy snow]

To show the not so circle shape

[shy snow]

Appreciate it

[gusty zodiac]

80mm

900mm fl

[shy snow]

Im at 80mm 600mm fl

[gusty zodiac]

you might still be able to see it with a barlow

or a small eyepiece

[smoky scaffold]

dumbbell is easy to find if you’re in a lower bortle

[gusty zodiac]

ring is even easier

[smoky scaffold]

yes it’s in a super easy spot

[coral cedar]

idk with this, i think i fix it?

[fading bobcat]

Looks more aligned then the other yeah

[coral cedar]

Yeahhh niceee

[shy snow]

Still aint a perfect circle

❍

[shy snow]

But its dimmer

At mag 8

Dumbell is mag 7

[coral cedar]

💀💀, imma just keep this pic

[shy snow]

Btw, can anyone help me with this one?

[coral cedar]

How about green dot finder scope?

[shy snow]

I prefer laser

Easier to use

[gusty zodiac]

its really not

its still bright

I would show you a pic if it weren't cloudy en

[somber lantern]

I think there's nothing easier to use than a red dot

But if you want a laser, I recommend looking into something like a celestron laser finder, although, finding dimmer stuff will be problematic, since a finder has the advantage that it shows many more stars than are visible naked eye and of course closer

[gusty zodiac]

I got a pic of it just now

looks dim but that's just what a 0.5s exposure will get ya

[smoky scaffold]

are you sure you did

nvm I can barely see it at max brightness

but it’s there

[gusty zodiac]

lol

[spring viper]

ISS.
Equipment:
6mm 66°, OMNI 2x, redmi note 7, SW130PDS, SW EQ3-2 OnStep.
Settings:
1/192 s, ISO 100, stack 100% 30 frames.
Processing:
MotionCam, PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax, PS.

[shy snow]

I can ~BARELY~ not see it

Its just not there

Bortle class?

[shy snow]

I dont want it to be closer, i just want to use it for approximating positions of dso with respect to bright stars

[somber lantern]

Why approximate when you can just point at it and get it in frame perfectly

Laser looks cool af but I'd recommend you to also get a normal finder, use both

[spice gale]

I'm just shocked, how?! A 6mm and a 2x barlow, how can you follow it and not lose it from the frame, and 100% stack, absolutely gorgeous

[spring viper]

Out of 3000 frames, only 30 were successful, the rest were blurry. And you need a good finder and smooth guidance

[spice gale]

Oh wow, isn't that 1% of data?

[gusty zodiac]

generally a five, but I was looking at a more light-polluted area of the sky so it was more like 7

[spring viper]

Yeah)

[shy snow]

Damn, have some hope from bortle 3.9

[nimble harness]

Try shooting at a higher iso

I got this crappy image at 3200

Def needed to lower exposure though because it is untracked

It was like a 4 second exposure

[brisk glen]

What is your telescope sir?

[nimble harness]

Orion observer 114/500

[violet mica]

If your on a budget, maybe get one of the toggle ones and put something like tape on the button

I dont know if there are toggle lasers though

[shy snow]

I found some brakets online, might buy them

[spice gale]

man that's crisp!

how many frames?

[formal notch]

Woah

The resolution is sooo good

[spring viper]

25%/2091

[spice gale]

Nice

What program did you use?

[spring viper]

Motioncam for recording, PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax.

[spice gale]

Ok, thanks

[violet mica]

That looks amazing, did you use barlows by any chance?

[spring viper]

6mm eyepiece, 2x OMNI Barlow

[violet mica]

Thanks

[plush palm]

Moon close-up

[fading bobcat]

do you use a generic finderscope?

I see some already suggested a red-dot finderscope, which is what I recommend. Easy to set up, align, and use. Just as long as you don't forget to turn it off like I totally, never in a million years, done.

[simple crow]

Holy moly

Looks like the image was taken right next to the moon

[plush palm]

i will take it as a compliment

[simple crow]

Yes

What scope

[plush palm]

celestron astromaster 130eq

[simple crow]

Wow I had no clue they were that good

[spice peak]

Hell yeah

[shy snow]

Anyone imaging this?

Its during the full moon of may

[patent zodiac]

I could

[gusty zodiac]

I can't; happens way below the horizon for my area

[patent zodiac]

I cant, but maybe i can try M4 with the moon

[shy snow]

Do it

I wanna see that

[patent zodiac]

Yeah clouds have a different plan

[patent zodiac]

If it clears up im still gonna try it

[obsidian fern]

M44 taken using a newtonian under 72% moon condition

ignore the coma and the noise

[valid sandal]

Hello, i just can't seem to get better focus than this when trying to capture the sun. Any tips?

using a Huawei p50 Pro, skywatcher heritage 150p OTA, skywatcher az gte mount, explore scientific 10mm ,52 degrees EP, explore scientific solarix solar filter

[smoky scaffold]

need something to extend the back focus

weird if you’re using a phone tho

[shy snow]

https://tenor.com/view/i-don't-give-a-shit-i-don't-give-a-shittu-i-don't-give-a-shitu-i-don't-give-a-shite-i-don't-give-a-shitte-gif-13175165101473272999

[lavish rampart]

eagle

[shy snow]

Phone?

And why is the image a circle

Ik theres supposed to be an imaging circle

But it look weird

Nice pic anyways

[lavish rampart]

it's a circle crop, because eyepiece images are strictly round

[zealous edge]

What equipment did you use to capture this?

[lavish rampart]

25 inch dob, 55mm plsosl, pvs14 NV tube, pixel 4a

[shy snow]

Why it grey?

[lavish rampart]

white phosphor looks like that

[patent zodiac]

I managed to image pleaides with the moon, but i deleted the data. It was shit

[smoky scaffold]

all you need to do is believe

[patent zodiac]

Fr

Those are some majestic words

[robust fog]

What if I told you that you can actually know the specific max ISO that's Best for your phone whenever you rip that beech? Works for 95% of devices

You can tell what's the specific max analog iso and where it turns to digital gain

On android devices

[tulip geyser]

Fr

[lean magnet]

how

[iron bear]

Projection of the moon onto a paper through the telescope eyepiece

[zealous scaffold]

i have never thought of trying that, thats so cool, all you do is just hold a piece of paper infront of the eyepiece?

[shy snow]

So you were using a filter right?

[lavish rampart]

H-alpha

[shy snow]

Aight

[iron bear]

Yep! You just need to focus on the paper

[zealous scaffold]

Yep I did it last night, I'll send pics when I'm home

[zealous edge]

Oh that's cool!! I had no idea this was possible until now

[shy snow]

Sheesh man, knew it was possible without an eyepiece but never knew it was possible with the eyepiece

[somber lantern]

I did this with my hand once and got surprised

[cursive halo]

What do you who do a lot of phone AP through eyepiece find to be best phone holder?

[somber lantern]

What

Couldyourepeatthat

[zealous scaffold]

what phone mount do you use

is what their asking

anyways mine is a 3d printed phone mount made for a microscope

mainly you want a phone mount with a knob to adjust the phone vertically, horizontally, and one to push it towards the eyepiece and away from it

[cursive halo]

I have some celestron mount in shooting range scope that feels solid, I think it has that but it is open construction so I think stray light would be issue for astro

[zealous scaffold]

when i have problems with light leaking in i just put electrical tape in the way of where the light is leaking into it

you could also put like cardboard around it and then paint it black or something, that probably works to

the celestron NexYZ is a good mount although its a little pricey and kinda bulky

[cursive halo]

Yeah that is the one, have not tried for astro uses yet, it is rock solid at range scope

[somber lantern]

I use a 3$ mount

It doesn't have a name

It holds amazingly

[iron bear]

This one is the best

3 axis with good material and lighter than NexYZ.

[frank jungle]

@frank jungleThe Lagoon and Trifid Nebula

[smoky scaffold]

agree, i have this one and highly recommend

[vale lintel]

Unprocessed straight up moon pic through my 14 Pro

Couldn't be bothered to set anything up last night lmao

[shy snow]

Jpeg?

[vale lintel]

heif

[shy snow]

What the actual f is that

[vale lintel]

"Better" JPEG

[shy snow]

High-Efficiency-Image-File

Jpeg but higher quality

[vale lintel]

yea

[shy snow]

Thanks

[gusty zodiac]

wait heif is now compatible with discord?

[vale lintel]

I guess

[fleet patio]

eagle

[lavish rampart]

🏓

[shy snow]

🏓

[shy snow]

@brother did you try it?

[patent zodiac]

Yeah no, the clouds were shitting rain

[iron bear]

I think I'll be able to test the new eyepiece today. Winter is coming, so the days are finally getting clear. Next month I must go to contryside to get some galaxies

For now I have only decided on two objects that I should photograph: Ngc4565 and Leo triplet

Any suggestions for galaxies visible from the southern hemisphere? I'm going to try andromeda too, but only at the end of the night, as it doesn't rise much here.

[coral cedar]

Pinwhrill

Galaxy

[iron bear]

I'll probably do andromeda with this field too

The problem with andromeda is that it rises very low here. Around 20 degrees only
But if I divide the capture over 3 nights I should get a good exposure time for it.

[coral cedar]

I live slightly northern than you a little bit

Polaris doesn't really that seen

Andromeda should be visible in yours but yeah

Any eq2 user here?

Need some help with the gear

Want to remove and replace it with my 3d part

But somehow the gear that attached to the mount got stuck and I can't remove it

[gusty zodiac]

Centaurus A

There's also the antennae galaxies which look sick but they're more challenging

If you're gonna do Leo triplet, you could also try doing the Markarian's chain

and of course, the LMC and SMC

[shy snow]

https://tenor.com/view/trash-can-gif-23015086

[opaque tundra]

can i get winter back aswell

[iron bear]

Go to southern hemisphere

[opaque tundra]

too far man, i live in the desert

[somber lantern]

You can go to chile/northwestern argentina so you won't miss the desert

[formal notch]

come to India

[shy snow]

Bros plotting murder

[formal notch]

You get both light pollution and heat if you come to India

It's 36°C rn

Temperature rises to 43 during afternoon

[spring viper]

Cancer

[gusty zodiac]

can confirm (not my city)

[gusty zodiac]

Almost all of Australia, some of S.America and a good amount of Southern Africa is desert tho

[spring viper]

С

For me 30с°is very hot

But I started having white nights, when the sun illuminates the atmosphere and is at -13° over horizon

[formal notch]

Whaaaa

[opaque tundra]

damn thats hotter than saudi

i thought our heat was bad

[frank jungle]

The Ptolemy Cluster M7

[gusty zodiac]

Its Jacobabad in Pakistan, fairly known for having extreme heat as seen in the pic

[shy snow]

That looks like a screaming face

[coral cedar]

💀💀

[ancient rampart]

The problem is not even how high it rises, its the sun, it rises above the horizon less than 30mins before sunrise if youre in Brazil

[gusty zodiac]

Wait 'till september or october then i guess

[ancient rampart]

Thats what im planning

[iron bear]

..... Just thinking about doing astrophotography makes the climate change completely.

💀

[tribal abyss]

Some reason why my phone app does this

[terse smelt]

boiled🔥🔥🔥

(single 15s exposure ran through graxpert as a test, results are something)

[somber lantern]

Carina region more like wtf happened here

[hot cliff]

pOcO i love the name

[simple crow]

What the

[spice peak]

Oh damn, i don't understand how you did it

[valid sandal]

talking about my moon gif? it has like a 3d effect to it, doesn t it

[spice peak]

But how

Oh wait, i think it might be the distortion of the lens (it seems to be shot through an eyepiece) this is my guess

[valid sandal]

yeah, it's curved at the edges, good guess xD

[somber lantern]

c

[terse smelt]

skill issue

[bronze jackal]

Aware this is not a particularly good pic, just held my phone to the eyepiece of my new scope and took a 2 second exposure on Sadr in Cygnus

Idk if the bright spot in the middle is what vignetting is, it seems like the bright spot floats above the image itself and kinda moves as the camera moves around. Something i barely even noticed with my old scope

[smoky scaffold]

likely phone too close to eyepiece

[bronze jackal]

Yeah probably because it does the same just much less noticeable when i look through it and my eye is too close

When i move my phone away i don't think it can see the full view though

I'll have to get a phone adapter thing to properly test

Also perhaps get some different eyepieces as the only one i got rn is the 25mm that came with the telescope

[smoky scaffold]

as a first upgrade I'd suggest the celestron x-cel LX 25mm eyepiece

its a little pricy but improves contrast by so much

its also huge compared to im assuming a plossl that you are using

[bronze jackal]

Yeah a celestron plossl

Which is already such a big upgrade over what i had previously which was a cheap 60mm refractor with super low quality 12.5mm eyepiece

But yeah i'll definitely look into those x-cel eyepieces

[waxen thistle]

An hour of the Dumbell Nebula

[tough nest]

With your phone 🤨

[smoky scaffold]

must be tracked

[spice gale]

No, it is for sure with the phone, because look at the stars

[nimble harness]

This is phone astrophotography ofc it is

[valid sandal]

ISS sun transit. no matter what i do i can't seem to get focus better than this, any tips from other phone users? i am using a skywatcher heritage 150p, helical focuser, nexyz adapter, huawei p50 pro

[north spindle]

It's possible that you're in focus and the optical quality is what is limiting you

[cursive halo]

and even more possible that it is the atmospheric quality

[terse smelt]

lithos atmosphere does not do that level of bad

[somber lantern]

I don't think so, it's a 150p I think it should be more than capable of seeing the sun which is roughly the size of the moon (as seen from earth of course)

[cursive halo]

@valid sandal what solar filter is that?

[valid sandal]

it's explore scientific solarix

[tough nest]

It could be your phone doesn't really know what it's looking at, so it doesn't know what it should look like in focus

[valid sandal]

it may be. i'm planning to use a zwo 224 mc to see if i can get focus with the solar filter but did not get around to it yet

[cursive halo]

@valid sandal And you are using video recorder that allows you manually focus the phone to infinity?

@valid sandal for daytime digiscoping that is the most important thing on my setup

[valid sandal]

yes i am using manual focus but with this eyepiece i reach focus on the phone when the focus is at minimum distance

[cursive halo]

I wonder if it could be eyepiece issue, I have mostly baader hyperions and one 2" swa from omegon and with all of those it seems to work decently

[valid sandal]

but only on the sun? the moon and stars focus perfectly

or good enough

[cursive halo]

I cannot figure what could be the issue particularly with sun, biggest suspicion for me is maybe light getting somehow between the eyepiece and camera lens

I had to do quite a lot to get it to be dark with my nexyz it has mostly open construction

you also want to make sure that primary is shrouded so light does not leak from the back

[valid sandal]

yeah i get what you mean, i wrap a towel around phone and eyepiece

i did that too, put shroud on the back

i'll look for a pic

[cursive halo]

do you have same focus issue visually as well? or is it only with the phone

if / when it gets less cloudy I should be able to test, I have SW150PDS, phone holder and solar filter with baader foil, I have never tried to use the phone for any astro target so not sure how it will be before trying

[valid sandal]

that is actually a great question because, yes i have the same issue, can't focus visually either, can't see the sun spots clearly, you know, the lighter dark around the central dark in a sunspot

then it has to be the filter no?

[cursive halo]

I suppose either filter, or maybe the filter somehow changing focus point enough that you cannot reach focus anymore

[valid sandal]

well what happens is that it's out of focus, i try to focus, it gets clearer, but then i go past it and gets blurier again

[cursive halo]

it really just sounds like exceptionally bad seeing

[valid sandal]

i tried it 2 times,different locations, same results, but that might be it. i need to do more testing and will get back to you, thank you for helping

[cursive halo]

is tha tthe scope that has semi truss construction?

I am wondering if there could be tube currents or other temperature instability due to the black material of the hood specialy if it is not air tight,

[valid sandal]

that could be too, damn so many things

😆

so changing focus because of filter can t be because i get to and go past the best focus i can get . bad seing hmm it was the same on 2 ocasions so probably not it, we're left with bad filter and tube currents

bad filter probably not because why would it be

[zealous edge]

My first ever capture(s) of the dumbbell nebula, taken with my phone pressed against the eyepiece of my Orion Starblast.

Taken on a whim, didn't think I'd actually resolve any detail at all with just ten seconds total exposure lol

[smoky scaffold]

its very bright

[zealous edge]

Evidently

[shy snow]

I couldn't stack my arcturus data because not enough stars

According to dss

How do i force stack it?

Im shooting untracked on an alt-az

[frank jungle]

How many second exposure was the image and what was the ISO that you used?

[formal notch]

use astrosurface i guess

requires only one star

[waxen thistle]

Ring nebula

[spice gale]

Setup?

[shy snow]

Around 170 images of 0.7s

Iso 400 (I wanted low noise)

[frank jungle]

You should not have used a low ISO for low noise. You can use calibration frames and after stacking you will always end up with a clear image with little noise in the background. Btw are you using a binoculars or telescope?

[shy snow]

Scope

[waxen thistle]

Celestron Nexstar 130SLT

[frank jungle]

F/7 or F/4

[spice gale]

And what phone?

Also, I guess you stacked

[shy snow]

Your gonna have a stroke reading this

F/12

[frank jungle]

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 I hope it is not 🐦 Jones design🥴

[waxen thistle]

Iphone 13

[spice gale]

Stacked?

[waxen thistle]

I used astroshader, 120 15 second frames

[wild flame]

I mean that spherical aberration looks bad enough to be one

[frank jungle]

Yesterday's Moon

[spice gale]

Nice, thank you for qnsqering the questions!

[shy snow]

Nice details!

But you lost some highlights tho

[coral cedar]

Just went to the beach and take milky way shots at the beach

2 hour of exposure of milky way btw

[zealous edge]

Recently did a reprocess on an image I took of the Andromeda Galaxy, this looks far better than my first process. Details are actually there without an egregious amount of noise. Still a little noisy, but far less than my first process. Very satisfied with the results.

Equipment used was my iPhone 12, a 56mm monocular, Celestron phone adaptor, smol cheap plastic tripod, and the AstroShader app. Processed in the default iPhone image editor and IbisPaint.

[shy snow]

Insane

Thats without tracker?

[zealous edge]

Well, yes and no.

No real tracking on the setup, but the app AstroShader can identify similar stars in sub exposures, and line them up accordingly. So it does track them, but the setup itself does not move.

The app can track the position of things and line things up where they logically should be, based on what stars are in the first sub exposure.

[shy snow]

So untracked?

[zealous edge]

Yep

[shy snow]

Very noice for untracked

[zealous edge]

thanks. Until i get a tracking mount and a decent telescope that's designed to be used for astrophotography, all of my shots will likely be untracked

[opaque tundra]

Lucas finally has some competition ( although he’s tracked but still phone tho)

[opaque tundra]

Or you can cheap out and get a Seestar or a dwarf lol

[zealous edge]

Eh well, smart scopes aren't for me.

[simple crow]

Wow same detail as my image and I actually used a dslr and lens

[shy snow]

Tru lol

[ivory thunder]

left is Leo
right is where cancer SHOULD be (I say should bc I can barely see it from my bortle 7 sky)

[iron bear]

From now

Single 55s ISO 400 raw sub
Mi12 + 114/900 telescope

[cursive halo]

Which phone did you use for this?

[shy snow]

Prob his main phone Xiaomi 12

Ig that's what mi12 means maybe

[gusty zodiac]

Personally im more surprised you can even see it

[ivory thunder]

weird bc I'm pretty sure I managed to get M4 on some binoculars too (similar deal with Uranus and 12p)

[gusty zodiac]

yeah that's def not B7

[ivory thunder]

ok I double checked no that wasn't m4
but I still caught Uranus and 12p (12p was 5th mag when I caught it)

though I am going to a b4 in like late July early August time (2 weeks)

[gusty zodiac]

ok then it might be B7

[ivory thunder]

yea my dumbass mistook sigma scorpii for a damn globular (2am activities)

😭

[gusty zodiac]

lmao

should've tried M22

close by a bright star and actually visible

[ivory thunder]

m22 is dimmer than m4 isn't it?
(using stellariun for this aaa)
m4 is 5.88
m22 is 6.16

though I managed to get the brighter stars of m24

[gusty zodiac]

from experience Stellarium's brightnesses are only correct for stars

I can't see M4 from here but I can see M22, M12, M3, M53, and M92 all fine

which are supposedly dimmer

I find it funny how M92 is listed as nearly mag. 7 but it was the brightest glob I have seen so far (though it was a little small)

[gusty zodiac]

you should try M7

[ivory thunder]

now that I think about it
the only globular I'm at least half sure I've seen is m13
but for opens its a lot more (m45, praesepe, double cluster, m39, etc)

[ivory thunder]

m7 is too far south to see for me

2 degrees at highest

[gusty zodiac]

oof

goes up to 22° for me

[daring thunder]

I got my first photo of Saturn no less than 5 minutes ago on my celestron 90mm mak cas!

[somber lantern]

The thing is a dso's brightness isn't the same as a star's brightness
A star appears as a single point while a dso's size varies
If you spread the light of a mag 6 star over an area it's gonna appear much dimmer

[waxen thistle]

Owl Nebula

Taken using a Celestron Nexstar 130SLT, IPhone 13, and AstroShader. ISO2200 and 360 20 second exposures for a total of 2 hours. Bortle 5

[simple crow]

Bro stretch

2 hours should not look like that

[gusty zodiac]

tru

[shy snow]

thats unfair for dso's

their brightness should be measured by how bright a certain point on the dso is

[somber lantern]

They're also measured by surface brightness

[shy snow]

how bright the dso actually is as per a certain point?

[shy snow]

dude share the data

we wanna process that

[somber lantern]

Not entirely sure

[shy snow]

so the mag 3 andromeda is literally a scam

[somber lantern]

Yes

Because Andromeda is massive

[shy snow]

a mag 3 star spread over an area of 5 full moons

[somber lantern]

Because of this same reason, most planetary nebula are very easy to see even if they're mag 9 because they're almost points of lights

[shy snow]

@somber lantern is this method of brightness the same for comets?

[somber lantern]

I have no idea I'm not that into comets

[shy snow]

tru, but most people dont capture them because they smol : (

[gusty zodiac]

hey at least the core is still visible from naked eye so there's that

[shy snow]

core is a point of light
I
WANT
THE
GALAXY

[somber lantern]

But I think yes, the core should be as bright as the said magnitude, the tail not so much

[shy snow]

so a point of light as said mag

and a tail of random brightness

between said mag and infinite

[somber lantern]

Not random but usually the magnitude of the comet doesn't equal to how bright the tail will be

[stable sundial]

I want to let everyone know, phone astrophotography is hard, but not impossible

[somber lantern]

Tru

[zealous edge]

Yeah, I mean it becomes a lot easier if you have a tracking mount and a phone that has a super good camera

untracked Astro with a shite phone camera is hard

[somber lantern]

My phone has a good camera but I'm untracked

And I need a wider eyepiece

I need me some aberration free 32mm

[zealous edge]

yessss

I want a good wide eyepiece, they're so cool

alas

they are pricey

[opaque tundra]

good ep legit cost as much or more than some of the budget scopes

[zealous edge]

Yeah

[ivory thunder]

also I think a problem with globular in gen is that since all the stars are close by to each other they're all the same brightness, so as the bortle class goes up they all fade put at the same time
but with opens they can be different brightness
so as u move up the scale with an open cluster the dimmer stars go first but part of the cluster still remains visible

[gusty zodiac]

i suppose

[zealous edge]

Dumbbell Nebula M27, taken last night when it was clear.

equipment used was my iPhone 12, Orion Starblast 4.5 dob, "Apexel" phone adapter, and the app AstroShader for image stacking. Post processing done in default iPhone image editor and IbisPaint.

roughly four minutes of exposure, half second sub exposures.

[waxen thistle]

It's astroshader, the image is all I can give you

[smoky scaffold]

you can export it as a tiff

but i doubt you can anymore

[coral cedar]

Lmao my mars looking like a nut

[nimble harness]

I don't think it is collimated

[coral cedar]

It is mars tho..

I think it just got out of focus

Need to fix it

[nimble harness]

Possibly

What telescope?

@coral cedar

[coral cedar]

Celestron 80eq

900mm

It should be enough right?

[nimble harness]

Mmm probably not

You'd need a dob in order to get good res

[coral cedar]

But i can see saturn clearly

[somber lantern]

80mm isn't that bad for a refractor, but that one specifically isn't the best, added with the fact mars is kinda small rn

[nimble harness]

Saturn is not as big as mars

Or no

Other way around

I am tired sry

[coral cedar]

Ahh i see

I have 4mm eyepiece but when i have to record it using my phone, need to zoom like 4-5x

And yeah its blurry

._.

[coral cedar]

Yeahh

[coral cedar]

Wait you mean theres a moment when the mars appear bigger?

[somber lantern]

Around december it's gonna be way bigger then get smaller as we move away

[coral cedar]

I see i see

Alright note it, mars at december

Thanks tho

[spring viper]

[spring viper]

10° above the horizon

[somber lantern]

Such a weird angle to see saturn in

[simple crow]

what the how is it like that

[smoky scaffold]

starting planet season early?

[zealous edge]

As our Earth and Saturn orbit around the sun, our view of the planet changes. Sometimes it appears larger, sometimes smaller, due to it being closer or further away from us respectively.

Additionally, Saturns apparent tilt changes as it orbits, so there are periods where we can see Saturns rings at a very discernible tilt, and there are periods where we can see the rings almost from a perfect side on view, like it is right now.

Saturn goes through these periods every few years, and in due time our view will be perfectly side on with the rings, enough that it'll actually be very difficult if not impossible to see the rings of Saturn at all. It will take another year and a half to get through this period, before we can start seeing Saturns rings again somewhere around 2026.

[simple crow]

ah ok thank you!

[nimble harness]

How much integration?

[zealous edge]

uhhh hold on

[nimble harness]

Okay

[zealous edge]

Roughly three minutes

actually it's probably more like six, AstroShader can be weird sometimes

that or my math went entirely down the shitter

[nimble harness]

Oh wow that is really good for not a lot of data

I got this out of 50 secs

I am hyped about it

[zealous edge]

Oooooh good

you can already see the dust lanes

[nimble harness]

It's super exciting

[spring viper]

Yeah)

[iron bear]

I'm still going to process it, but it looks like it's going to be insane

[somber lantern]

Oooo

What target is this

[iron bear]

Messier 17

[shy snow]

With the new eyepiece and cooled phone?

[iron bear]

Only with the new eyepiece. I didn't need to refrigerate the cell phone, as it was very cold

Dark frame

[elder birch]

Found a shot of Jupiter from January I’d forgotten I took 😅
Skymax 127, 12.5mm Plossl, x2 Barlow.
Shot on iPhone13 with AS; x500, 0.002s, ISO 200. Edited on iPhone.

[opaque tundra]

Oh wow that’s amazing

[shy snow]

How did you shoot it?

Video or individual images?

[ivory thunder]

my favourite
most of perseus, alpha persei cluster visible too

Samsung a71 btw

[elder birch]

It was just a livestack, x500 images with no rejection mechanism. Unlucky imaging 😅

[waxen thistle]

astroshader can livestack planetary???

i have tried to and it didnt work

[elder birch]

No, it can’t do lucky imaging.
This was just a straight stack

[iron bear]

The cell phone slipped on the adapter during the 55s frame and generated this circular trail on Carina

[nimble harness]

That is oddly epic

[zealous edge]

Why does it actually look cool lmao

[opaque tundra]

New trend let’s do nebulae trails

[waxen thistle]

Do you mean that it stacked frames like any other planetary stacking program with the difference that it used every frame?

[limber walrus]

https://tenor.com/view/shot-on-iphone-abhinav-lol-caught-in4k-gif-24869424

I used a phone mount to talk this picture via my telescope.

[spice gale]

What telescope do you have

Also, did you use flash?

[limber walrus]

Yeah, I pressed it by accident

[limber walrus]

F70060

[spice gale]

[formal notch]

Yeah from the looks of it, it could compete with astrocam photos

[iron bear]

Lagoon

Tonight I process

[formal notch]

oh yeah thats really good

[elder birch]

Yes exactly.
Another downside is that as it’s a live stack I don’t have the original data to reprocess, although it only takes a few seconds to image each stack of 500.

[opaque tundra]

Stars look really nice dude

[shy snow]

Petition for lucas to share all his astro data

React to sign the petition

[waxen thistle]

Taken using an IPhone 13, Celestron Nexstar 130SLT, and AstroShader - 320 15 second exposures at ISO 2200 for a total of 80 minutes - Bortle 5

M16

I can share the unedited tiff if anyone wants it

[opaque tundra]

Oo thats amazing

[obsidian fern]

A single shot of milkyway at bortle 4

[opaque tundra]

wow all that from a single shot crazy

im going to try and do Mw from b9 again, i've forgotten what settings i used i hope its doesnt turn out too bad

[ancient rampart]

Its crazy how much you can get from a single long mw exposure

This is a 20 sec exp in bortle 4

[opaque tundra]

amazing!

[opaque tundra]

whats a good iso setting in the default camer app?

[ancient rampart]

I usually use between 800 and 1600

Even lower when doing stacking

[opaque tundra]

My first attempt was quite shit just now, i didnt have the correct focus ;cccc

did 200 exp at 7s and 9k iso

[somber lantern]

I want it

[ancient rampart]

9k iso??? Thats way too much on a phone

[opaque tundra]

idk i was just playing around on astroshader

i manged to get this once, but i accidently didnt properly save the image and now idk what settings i used 😢

[waxen thistle]

I put it in #1021002743080558642

[nimble harness]

Get this man a phone adapter

[iron bear]

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

this lagoon data

[iron bear]

my resolution match with 4 microns and 556mm FL in SPCC

[ancient rampart]

Bortle?

[shy snow]

https://tenor.com/view/charlie-woooo-yeah-baby-gif-24480925

[iron bear]

Lagoon nebula

📋 Exif:
🔭 Toya 114/900, eq3 with onstep, 18mm 66° UFF eyepiece
📷 Xiaomi 12 (Imx 766) 150x55s iso 400
📌 Brazil, Munhoz. Bortle 4
@lucasgoncalves_js

[iron bear]

single

[nimble harness]

That is amazing

What is the mount?

[iron bear]

Generic eq3 with onstep

[nimble harness]

Very nice

How did you put an onstep onto it?

I have always wanted to try

[opaque tundra]

9

[opaque tundra]

This was yesterdays failed attempt

Weird artifacts were super aggressive

[ancient rampart]

Couldnt these things be fixed by positiong the camera?

Also background extraction might help

[nimble harness]

Might just be the software

Try deepskycamera

[cursive halo]

@opaque tundra might be light leak to eyepiece too, look kinda like reflections from lenses

Or stray light just hitting phone lens

[opaque tundra]

I took it with just the phone alone, yeah it might be some random street light hitting it

[opaque tundra]

That’s with full bg

[ancient rampart]

Damn

[opaque tundra]

It’s b9 tho so yeah

I’ll try again

[nimble harness]

Look into the optical tube and check to see if any light is hitting the inside of the tube.

Also make sure your camera is close to the eyepiece so there isn't any light leak there

[opaque tundra]

I wasn’t using an eyepiece

Just the phone on a tripod

[cursive halo]

Sometimes you can get behind buildings or such to prevent streetlights from being in direct view at least

[opaque tundra]

I think I gotta set the tripod lower so the phone itself isn’t level with the street lights

[spice gale]

Does anyone here have the s23 ultra?

I want to buy it and I want some reviews about it's astronomy capabilities

I have already seen the video about it from Shayne Mostyn

[coral cedar]

Saturn

[spice gale]

Saturn with stars, cool

[shy snow]

Real

[nimble harness]

Then it is definitely from some sort of light leak

[opaque tundra]

Would using the toilet paper roll work as a shield lol

[nimble harness]

Haha I don't think so. Maybe try and find any light sources around you and turn them off and if that isn't possible then find a better spot with less light coming directly at you

[opaque tundra]

I’m on my roof and everything’s off except the street lights

Some of the light off them gets to the roof from certain angles

[spice gale]

.

[nimble harness]

Then you might be able to block the light using something

[opaque tundra]

Decent attempt from b8-9

One of the pics is around 5-7s exposure for 200 frames

[ancient rampart]

Those are quite good for b9

Only problem is focus

Id recommend zooming into the stars and focusing the camera like that

[ivory thunder]

Gemini, canis minor from b7
Samsung a71

[opaque tundra]

Oh I thought I was in focus

I was a bit suspicious about it but wasn’t sure

[nimble harness]

@opaque tundra see how that street light makes weird artifacts. That is why your images are like that

[ivory thunder]

never thought a pic I considered one of my better ones would be used as an example of what to not do 😭

[opaque tundra]

From the angle I shoot at yesterday my phone was lower to the ground so the light was directly hitting it

[nimble harness]

Yeah that's no Bueno

It will mess up every single image

[opaque tundra]

Hmm well tbh can’t do much about it if I shoot from my roof

I’d have to go out somewhere

These street lights are way to tall man

[nimble harness]

Yeah that would have to be the case

Just find somewhere with no streetlights lol

[opaque tundra]

lol that’s quite a difficult task

[nimble harness]

Why is that?

[opaque tundra]

There’s very few places near my area, it would require a loong drive

[nimble harness]

What city are you in?

[opaque tundra]

I was thinking about getting a gun to shoot the lights near my house hehhe

[opaque tundra]

Im from Saudi Arabia

[nimble harness]

We do not recommend this 🙏

[nimble harness]

Oh yeah huge city

[opaque tundra]

I gotcha 😉

[nimble harness]

I heard Saudi Arabia has some gorgeous dark sites in the desert tho

[opaque tundra]

Yea I’ve been a few times

It’s easy to get to a b1 in 2-3hrs, but the issue is I don’t have a car that’s capable to drive in the desert

[nimble harness]

Oh I see

[opaque tundra]

Also risky to go alone aswell always gotta have someone on board with you

[nimble harness]

Are there any dark sites that aren't in the desert?

[nimble harness]

Yeah fs

[opaque tundra]

That would most likely be some of the towns that are near the deserts

[nimble harness]

Those might be ok

[opaque tundra]

Yea they are but it makes the drive quite a bit longer

[nimble harness]

Anything other than b9 is great

[opaque tundra]

Yeah definitely lol

Coming back from b2-3 just kills me every time I look at my b9 sky

[nimble harness]

I have actually never been to a dark site yet so hopefully this year I will be able to see one

[opaque tundra]

Oh your gonna love it

I saw a bunch of shooting stars for the first time in my life when I went there

[nimble harness]

Ugh dude I can't wait

Hopefully I will be able to go sooner than later

[opaque tundra]

If the moon wasn’t an issue I’d be going every week

[nimble harness]

Ikr

[ivory thunder]

auriga

old pic lel

[simple crow]

🌈

[opaque tundra]

Mw + rainbow collab

[coral cedar]

Jupiter from my telescope, celestron 80eq 900mm, maybe the result kinda bad, but im quite happy with it

[waxen thistle]

Needle Galaxy
Taken using a Celestron Nexstar 130SLT, an IPhone 13, and AstroShader. Subs were 15 seconds, exact integration time I don't know but it's around 30 minutes. ISO is 2600 and location is a Bortle 5.

Also over 2 hours of NGC 281

[nimble harness]

Nice man looking good

Some more integration and it will turn out great

[crisp river]

Can i see milky Way with naked eye in bortle 4 sky

[nimble harness]

It would be dim but for a widefield it would be alright

[crisp river]

So why I me not able to see it

[nimble harness]

Didn't say you wouldn't be able to see it I just said it would be dim

[crisp river]

😔

[nimble harness]

You can still take widefield images with your phone though

And it will be very prominent

[crisp river]

I can just see variation in color in sky

Sky is just a little bright at milky Way clre

Core*

[crisp river]

Yaa

[waxen thistle]

I couldnt

[shy snow]

Im gonna try today

[crisp river]

Same

[pastel nexus]

I could see it (Barely but still saw it) on a clear night with no moon in my bortle 5-6 area

use stellarium to see when it will be up too. So you're looking in the right direction and time

[ancient rampart]

You should 😅 but it more than enough for mw photography

[cursive halo]

@crisp river that is how milky way looks like, you wont see any color just grey ish streak going across the sky

it gets more impressive if you actually stay 30 - 40 minutes in dark, not looking at your phone or any lights

[smoky scaffold]

you should be able to

in my bortle 4 I can see it

[atomic rampart]

A little bit yes

[atomic rampart]

Maybe it was a full moon or high atmospheric clouds or your eyes weren't adjusted to the dark or simply the mily way had not risen yet

[atomic rampart]

Same

[bronze jackal]

The Moon and Spica

[ivory thunder]

am i blind or can i not find spica

[bronze jackal]

really faint on the left

[somber lantern]

Nice seeing last night

[nimble harness]

Bang boom bop badabopboom

[waxen thistle]

Moonless and crystal clear, but it was April so I might not have gotten a good view of the core

[atomic rampart]

In April the milky way is up at around 3 am

[bronze jackal]

I can see it from my garden bortle 5

It looks like in incredibly faint greyish cloud

[formal notch]

Wait milky way is that bright?

Whaaaa

How much exposure (from b7) is it required to just get milky way using phone

[lean magnet]

i dont think you can do it from b7

b6 is the max i think

but idk i never tried it at b7

[iron bear]

Carina Nebula

📋 Exif:
🔭 Toya 114/900, eq3 with onstep, 18mm 66 degree UFF eyepiece.
📷 Xiaomi 12 (Imx 766), 100x55s ISO 400
📌 Munhoz, Brazil. Bortle 4
@lucasgoncalves_js

[formal notch]

its starting to look like a JWST image

[nimble harness]

🏆

[somber lantern]

Holy

[smoky scaffold]

somebody get this man a dob

[iron bear]

Like this 18"?

[smoky scaffold]

what the

[iron bear]

I took a photo with @small bluff in it. I just have to process it properly, I didn't really like the last processing

The problem is that he took the photo with the camera in 8 bits instead of 16. This is the consequence of placing an planetary astrophotographer to do Dso 💀

hubble

[somber lantern]

The middle finger nebula

[distant epoch]

How did you even manage to take this with a phone

[iron bear]

I just put my phone at telescope eyepiece with the adapter, do goto and make a sequence of subs

[smoky scaffold]

is it the phone's sensor that's making it look so good?

[iron bear]

Then i stack at pixinsight and process.

[distant epoch]

What phone do you have?

[distant epoch]

Cool

[iron bear]

The sensor works the same as a camera or cell phone. There are differences in efficiency between cell phone sensors, but what makes it look so good is the use of the same processing tools that are used by those who have astrocameras.

like blurxterminator, deepsnr, masked strech, SpectrometricPhotometric color calibration etc

[shy snow]

Theres a guy who did it in b9

[coral cedar]

it makes alot of difference huh

with the new eyepiece

im considering buy ashperic eyepiece 62 degree

any user aspheric eyepiece from svbony?

[iron bear]

Messier 17 (omega)

📋 Exif:
🔭 Toya 114/900, eq3 with onstep, 18mm 66° UFF eyepiece
📷 Xiaomi 12 (Imx 766), 115x55s ISO 400
📌 Munhoz, Brazil. Bortle 4
@lucasgoncalves_js

core without processing

[patent zodiac]

@domu200880 bro calm down im getting so jealus bcs my mount doesnt work and i wanna do astrophotography

[terse smelt]

like 20 seconds, maybe incredibly faintly naked eye

[opaque tundra]

Starless looks like a nice cotton candy

[formal notch]

Oohhhh

Cool I might try that tonight

[coral cedar]

Jupiter 2nd try, idk about this

[crisp river]

High Clouds are the biggest issue I guess cause monsoon season has started

There is always a haze only sometimes it is clear

[crisp river]

Yaa these types of images are inaccurate and misleading

[smoky scaffold]

1-4 have literally no difference

[patent zodiac]

Yeah im between b4-5

[small bluff]

TOPAZ AI

[small bluff]

Fake news

[iron bear]

🤓

[somber lantern]

I sorta got it from b9 with 16 seconds but it's trailed so it can't be stacked, go for something like 8s

Moon was up during this too

[ivory thunder]

oh how low scorpius stays on my uk horizon

[somber lantern]

I get Scorpius at zenith

It's a bit uncomfortable

[ivory thunder]

from b7, with a streetlight just out of frame

also astro twilight bc of june

[ivory thunder]

the center of Scorpius gets only 4 degrees above the horizon for me
m7 2 degrees, m6 5

[somber lantern]

Damnn

[ivory thunder]

keep in mind the only time I can see it is during June and July, so atsro twilight throughout the night
that and low ecliptic angle so it goes pretty quick

also it's been raining all year so far in the UK, so not like I'd have a shot anyways 😭

[spice gale]

Some photos of the buildings

[opaque tundra]

First pic is nice

[waxen thistle]

I will soon be leaving this forum, godspeed

[patent zodiac]

It aint worth it bro, for that money get a cooled zwo cam

Wait, how much does it cost?

[opaque tundra]

what is this thing i've never seen or heard about it before

[smoky scaffold]

its like $120

[waxen thistle]

$200

[smoky scaffold]

piece of junk

you put your phone's camera up to the eyepiece that you see on the back

[waxen thistle]

Why would anyone buy that it's almost enough for a seestar

[smoky scaffold]

where i am, it costs more than a seestar

[opaque tundra]

bruh and they're asking 420 for it crazyy

[smoky scaffold]

it has no goto feature or tracking and can only do solar, lunar, and scenery

[opaque tundra]

what a scam lol

[smoky scaffold]

its funny they call it a smart telescope

[waxen thistle]

How can you call it a smart telescope if it has no goto or tracking

almost false advertising

[cursive halo]

I think it actually does plate solve and such - hopefully

if it doesnt i wonder where the hell the price tag comes from :p

[waxen thistle]

I think we all know where the seller pulled the price out of

[cursive halo]

yeah no electronics at all

it really is just tiny cheap what? 30mm scope

on chunk of plastic

[somber lantern]

You'll be better off with a dslr

[waxen thistle]

Already bought it, I am not too worried though since the only negative things I could find about it were about its guiding capabilities and I do not intend to use it for a guide scope, and a review said it is basically the same as a certain ~$300 ZWO camera

why are laser collimators bad by the way? I don't want to start a debate I just don't know anything about them

[somber lantern]

They need collimation

What kind of collimator needs collimation?

[somber lantern]

Yeah I mean it's not bad but I wouldn't buy it

Hey at least you didn't get any of the other sv cameras

Sv305 and above are the only that don't suck

[nimble harness]

CA is attacking from all angles

[waxen thistle]

C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) 20 minutes ISO 1500

[terse smelt]

comet pog

[iron bear]

🧐

No processing yet

[opaque tundra]

wow that doesnt even need any processing lol

[iron bear]

comparasion with Asi290mm
Cellphone catches more light and less noise at the same exposure time.
Asi290mm=120x60s
Mi12=100x55s
Same telescope and same sky

[spice gale]

Bro he is the phone astrophotography goat

[frigid dove]

One man Army

[spring viper]

If only smartphones still shot in direct focus. Quality is lost due to additional lenses

The only thing worth buying now is new cameras. Like 533, 2600, 585

Or 678

[iron bear]

I'll probably get a 294 or a 533. But I have to buy first a good equatorial one

I'm going to spend at least another year or two taking photos with my cell phone. Honestly, I'm very comfortable; Having a good equatorial mount that doesn't blur my photos will make a big difference.

[opaque tundra]

Or get a newer xiaomi phone lol

[iron bear]

I want an astrocam. So I can leave it on the telescope and do widefield with my phone at the same time

[shy snow]

You can use a bino-type setup with 2 scopes

One for astrocan

And the other for phone

[spring viper]

Rare silver clouds

[nimble galleon]

The Moon through a 5" dobson and a phone

[spice gale]

Do you have a phone adaptor?

[nimble galleon]

yep

[zealous edge]

Woooahh, pretty Noctilucent Clouds!!

[spring viper]

Yeah))

[zealous edge]

My latest and best capture of M13 using my iPhone 12 and Orion Starblast. Not fantastic of course, but I think it's alright.

integration time is roughly two minutes. Idk why M13 looks green after the post processing but tbh I don't really care

[nimble harness]

Looks sick mate 👌

Quick little moon image. Not the best quality but I still like it

There was a tad bit of haze so that kinda messed it up

[iron bear]

NGC 253 (Sculptor Galaxy)

📋 Exif:
🔭 Toya 114/900, eq3with onstep, 18mm 66° UFF eyepiece
📷 Xiaomi 12 + asi290mm
⚙ RGB: 104x55s ISO 400
L: 120x60s with Ir-uvcut
📌 Munhoz, Brazil. Bortle 4
@lucasgoncalves_js

[frigid dove]

dawg...

[frigid dove]

How do you keep the phone mount from flexing?

[frank jungle]

Saturn

[potent gorge]

why a 294? its got so many issues

[zealous edge]

"oh, neat moon video I gues- tHERE'S A ✨PLANE✨"

[lean magnet]

complete accident too lol, i didnt even realise until i reached autostakkert where analyzing ranked all the frames with the plane in it as the best

[iron bear]

Their problems come out with a calibration frame. As the sensor is larger, it would look better here on my telescope since I'm at 900mm focal length

[potent gorge]

294 has issues that even with calibration frames they aren't removed

@stone haven has a 294 and has been "horrified" of the stuff it has

At least go for a 571

And you're anywys buying a brand new camara so why buy one that's notorious for its issues when you are also considering a camara that's essentially flawless

[iron bear]

I would like it, but it is very expensive here in Brazil. Several of my friends have it, but I'm just a student for now 💀

[potent gorge]

Should save up for it then

[dry falcon]

Taken and edited with an iPhone 11

[stone haven]

Don’t get the 294

Get a 533 or something

[iron bear]

294

533

[potent gorge]

Show the 571

[iron bear]

My focal length is kind of high. A larger sensor would be more suitable

[potent gorge]

571 is APS-C

[iron bear]

I know, but the 571 is a bit unfeasible at the moment. It arrives here in Brazil costing 3-4x more than the 294 and 533 💀

[potent gorge]

455?

[iron bear]

571

A friend bought his 294 for (3.200 reais)
A Poseidon-C Pro costs (11000 reais) here

My entire setup only cost 3000 reais so far

[potent gorge]

But at least you're getting a camara that's reliable and calibration frames will work with it

294 is notorious for having several issues