Phone Astrophotography

[sick kernel]

But yea its 4

My family just went to my grandparents for the weekend and i brought my equipment lol

[dusk crow]

Nice

I was last week in 4 but it was Full Moon

Now I am again 9

[sick kernel]

Here there are mountains all over so they cover the moon

(At my grandpas)

[dusk crow]

It’s still effect the sky

[sick kernel]

Ye but it looks a bit better for visual

[dusk crow]

Yes

I capture the M31 from B9, this would look much better in B4

[sick kernel]

WoW

[dusk crow]

With 12 Pro Max

[sick kernel]

Wait pls

[dusk crow]

It was a 6,25 min exposure

[sick kernel]

10 sec exposure m 31

[dusk crow]

I see

[sick kernel]

I hate the street light

It ruins it

Its a bit above it

[dusk crow]

I did 51x 8 second

[sick kernel]

I did just 10 sec in the normal camera app

[sick kernel]

U did it in astro shader?

[dusk crow]

You can use AstroShader

[sick kernel]

Ye

[sick kernel]

I sue

[lean magnet]

this?

[sick kernel]

Ye

It dont look good

Cuz only 10 sec and the light ruined it

[lean magnet]

also is that a meteor in the corner

[sick kernel]

Ye

[dusk crow]

This was my first Andromeda Galaxy pic in B6

10 sec tho

[sick kernel]

I never imaged andromeda from my home(bortle 5) not cuz you dont see it cuz someones house covered’s it

[dusk crow]

Yeah I also have the problem

I can’t see the Milky Way

To low on horizon

[sick kernel]

Yeah

[coral cedar]

Mann

Drift alignment is so hard

Day 3 of doing drift alignment

Got no exposure at all

[faint pine]

Bortle 4

[nimble harness]

Cutie patootie mw

Samsung w

[bronze jackal]

This image is cooked bruh

[faint pine]

Street lights ruined the photo

[bronze jackal]

Andromeda galaxy
Samsung S22 Ultra 10x Lens
214x 4s
ISO 1600
Stacked in Sequator and quick tweaks in Lightroom though could probably do better with Photoshop

[bronze jackal]

Gonna try fix the overprocessed look tomorrow 😭

There is not much I can do when I'm working with only 17 minutes of the nosiest data you've ever seen

[ancient rampart]

Just took 30mins on mw core

Heres timelapse and a singoe 20s exposure in another background

[smoky scaffold]

how come the first one is so briht

[nimble harness]

Jitt 💀

[faint pine]

Andromeda

[ancient rampart]

S20FE is not a good phone for astro

And the first one was made with unedited raw files too

[bronze jackal]

slightly less overprocessed

I think that's the best I'm gonna get

[zealous scaffold]

just saw saturn for my first ever time and i got so excited my hypoglycemia kicked in and now my blood sugars are low lol

[dry falcon]

Damn

I also saw Saturn for the first time last night

[spice gale]

how was it?

[spice gale]

damn

[dry falcon]

It wasn’t the best (I only have a celestron astromaster 130eq)

I think if I turned the contrast it would look better but my iPhone camera can’t turn it down that much

[shy snow]

not too good processing

purely using Gimp

also my first shot at hdr dso 😉

[spice gale]

Even if you higher up the contrast it will be overexposed

Wait, let me see if I have the data that I took this photo of saturn last year

With a telescope slighty bigger, dob heritage 150p

No, I can't find the data

[somber lantern]

This was mine from last year with a 4.5 incher, it could have been better if I had an actual way of recording it (I screen recorded the live view from pro mode)

[spice gale]

Damn

I just made a single shot, bc I didn't know how to photograph planets last year

[zealous scaffold]

This is all I got, it was really windy so I didn't bother trying to take a good image at all

[lean magnet]

i fixed the color on this

[smoky scaffold]

stupid power lines

[dry falcon]

I meant lowering it sorry

[smoky scaffold]

im pretty sure theres no detail here besides the shape of saturn

its way too bright

[shy snow]

My saturn last year, single shot jpeg

Powerseeker

My jupiter last year

Powerseeker 💪

[nimble harness]

This is sick man

[solar sapphire]

The Sun today

[shy snow]

Used a filter right?

[smoky scaffold]

bruh💀

serious question?

[coral cedar]

You'll be blind if u dont use filter

[shy snow]

I mean you can damage the sensor in this case

[shy snow]

Yeah, from past experiences

[solar sapphire]

Yes

[lean magnet]

edited my best mw a bit more

[shy snow]

thank god, nice image tho

got a lot of sunspots

[solar sapphire]

thanks

[coral cedar]

Jupiter and saturn from my phone

Stacked already

[opaque tundra]

what scope?

quite nice for phone that is

[tulip geyser]

Yes people don’t on this server sometimes

[ancient rampart]

Just finished processing this mw, but i feel like siril didnt do it right

I took 30mins but siril only accepted 17mins, so im trying it out in sequator to see what i can get

Final result looks slightly better

[opaque tundra]

Could probably use some graxpert

[ancient rampart]

I can share the raw files if you want

[ancient rampart]

Idk what that is sorry 💀

[smoky scaffold]

search it up

[ancient rampart]

Oh thank imma try it out

[iron bear]

Startrial

Xiaomi 12, 40x32s iso 400.
Piracicaba, Brazil. Bortle 5 with Moon

[coral cedar]

Celestron 80 eq

With 10mm eyepiece

[smoky scaffold]

trailing is really bad but I just wanted to capture a hint of the horsehead

[zealous edge]

Oh wow, not bad

With less trailing and some de-noising that could look pretty good

Oh that reminds me I wanted to reprocess my data on flame and horsehead

[somber lantern]

Hey I wanted to ask how exactly did you onstep your eq3

[smoky scaffold]

blurx will fix 👍

(it totally won’t)

[zealous edge]

Eh well, try it if you can

[smoky scaffold]

i dont got blurx but someone who does should try

[pastel nexus]

It won't do much to improve the image

[iron bear]

Mine is a generic eq3. I bought the onstep ready and just adapted the motors with standard supports for nema 17 found on Aliexpress

[zealous edge]

Ok so can someone explain to me how my Andromeda image taken with a 56mm monocular and my iPhone 12, with less than 3 minutes of integration time, is BETTER than my Andromeda image taken with a 114mm reflector telescope and my iPhone 12, with over 15 minutes of integration time??

56mm aperture and like 2m 40 seconds I think

114mm aperture mirror and about 15 minutes

Like you can barely even see the dust lanes in the more recent image, could my seeing just have been horrific tonight, and my seeing during the previous shoot was absolutely fantastic?

I'm just so confused as to how, with far better equipment and over 5x the integration time, I got something worse than what I could get with a worse setup

I'm really hoping it was just a matter of seeing, and nothing else

Same bortle for both images too, forgot to mention that

Bortle 7.5, might I add.

I'm dumbfounded, and not in a good way

[zealous scaffold]

same bortle is odd, but also other factors such as wind speed, humidity, whether or not it was a little cloudy, the amount of time the object was shot, the time of day, the temp outside, theres a lot of things that could def contribute to why your image is slightly worse even if shot with better equipment

[zealous scaffold]

2m 40s total int time for that in a b7.5 thats nuts

i cant even get the core of andromeda to show very well in a b6 with like 20 mins int time lol

and i have a phone intended for AP

[zealous edge]

To be fair, it was many hours of post processing afterwards to really squeeze out as much detail as I possibly could have, without utterly tanking the image quality

[zealous scaffold]

ah yeah im really bad at post processing stuff, i normally get someone to do it for me

[zealous edge]

I really tried everything I could, everything that I did to get what I got out of the first image, on the second image, but could not get anything better than what I sent here

I'm really just boggled right now

[zealous scaffold]

im gonna go on a whim and say it was def different conditions between the two nights

could've been as simple as a little more humidity or condensation in the air which made less light go into your scope

[zealous edge]

That's the only thing I can think of too, it was very humid out when I was outside

as it had just recently rained

[zealous scaffold]

ah yeah humidity can def do it

[zealous edge]

mirror might've been fogging up too, idk

It didn't seem like it was fogging up, since the stars were still perfect pinpoints

[zealous scaffold]

its actually been so hot outside and so cold inside my house that my scope was frosting over slightly in my house, but i only noticed it when i brought it outside because of the drastic temp difference

[zealous scaffold]

do u have a dew shield or whatever

[zealous edge]

I've noticed that occasionally too, I usually just wait like 20 minutes for stuff to reach thermodynamic equilibrium

[zealous scaffold]

dew heater lol, never bought one so

[zealous edge]

I dew not have one

[zealous scaffold]

hahahahahaha jumping off a bridge immediately

[zealous edge]

I'll see myself out lol

[zealous scaffold]

your good lol

now teach me about shooting andromeda, i have my notepad, pen, and glasses

[zealous edge]

Another thing I just realized was that andromeda was actually higher up in the sky tonight when I used my 114mm reflector, as opposed to when I used the 56mm monocular; it was much lower in the sky

So many things in my advantage, it's crazy how much poor seeing (if that's the issue i encountered) can mess things up

[zealous scaffold]

less light pollution the higher the object is (from my experience anyways)

[zealous edge]

Yeah, less atmospheric distortion too since you're shooting through less of earths atmosphere

[zealous scaffold]

actually huge factor, was the moon out and what phase was it

because that plays a HUGE role

[zealous edge]

I couldn't see the moon at all, so probably not above the horizon

Lemme check actually

[zealous scaffold]

could've been below a treeline or something and you couldnt see it, still causes a large amount of light pollution that you prob wouldnt have noticed

[zealous edge]

It's actually just barely a new moon, like the tiniest sliver of light, and it must have been below the horizon the whole time because it's only now rising above the horizon, about 2hrs after I was done shooting

[zealous scaffold]

huh

check what the weather, humidity, dew point, etc was for that day

and see what the differences are

[zealous edge]

Current dew point rn is 67°F

74% humidity

[zealous scaffold]

high dew point and high humidity, more than likely the issue

[zealous edge]

If it helps to know, I shot the monocular image of andromeda during December, the air might've been drier and less turbulent maybe?

Colder outside too, less to worry about once my setup cooled down to the ambient temperature outside

[spring viper]

My humidity every day is 90%☠️

[zealous scaffold]

F

its been over 100 degrees here everyday for like a week so

bad here aswell

[coral cedar]

Is it 2 axis or 1 axis?

[shy snow]

How do you polar align?

[iron bear]

2 axis.

[iron bear]

By drifit in phd2

[iron bear]

💀 100% here

[opaque tundra]

i thought my 70-80% was bad ☠️

[shy snow]

So 100% of your air is water?

You living is water?

You breathing water?

https://tenor.com/view/underwater-hello-im-under-water-selfie-smile-gif-16028538

[coral cedar]

No wonder you can capture 30s of exposure

Ive 900mm with 1 RA Axis steper motor, well need to manual drift alignment

Need to learn still, its frustrating

[iron bear]

I do 55s actually. Without guiding, arround 20-25s

[coral cedar]

Do you use compass to polar alignment?

My phone always error tho, sometimes it always drift to west sometimes

[coral cedar]

I have so much trouble getting 5s exposure

[iron bear]

Just to initially align the mount. Then I use the guiding camera and phd2 to refine

[shy snow]

You have a guide scope and cam?

Which one

[iron bear]

Yep
32/120mm guide scope and Sv905c (usb2.0 Asi224)

[spring viper]

oh, my eq3 from skywatcher holds 50s without guiding

Maybe more, but I lack the precision of setting the North Star

[pastel nexus]

You probably had dew on the lens of the refractor which dimmed and blurred the imaged

[zealous edge]

Well it was a reflector, but yeah likely what went wrong

[pastel nexus]

oh it was reflector

[pastel nexus]

did you use a barlow for this?

[iron bear]

With 1000mm focal length? Hardly... If it is with a short focal length, mine can do 180s easily

[iron bear]

And yes, the noise sounds like a nuclear attack siren on goto 😂. I'm going to change the motor drivers for quieter ones

[somber lantern]

Lol and wow, what gears did you use for the motors

[iron bear]

Did you mean Pulleys? 60 teeth GT2 in the mount and 20 teeth GT2 in the motor

6mm bore

[somber lantern]

That

Thanks I'm planning on also doing onstep and my setup is very similar to yours so I wanted to ask that

[zealous edge]

Nope, just a 20mm eyepiece

[patent zodiac]

Bro why u complaining, i would die to have a sound like that my PicGoto mount sounds like a dying rat trying to cough out a bone

[solar sapphire]

What is this?

[sterile parrot]

Drone leds maybe

Look on stellarium

But that looks very much like drone leds

[ancient rampart]

Droneor a plane

[sterile parrot]

Yh

[iron bear]

My guiding graph after mods

For a mount that comes with the most basic telescopes, it's pretty good.

[zealous edge]

That actually sounds really nice lol, I love that sound

[zealous scaffold]

as a drone pilot that is infact a drone

FAA requires that drones being flown at night must have a light of some sort attached to them so their visible from the ground

[solar sapphire]

thanks for the info

[spring viper]

New star. My photo is on the left

[smoky scaffold]

Andromeda and Triangulum Galaxy, plus Caldwell 28 which is an open cluster

[ivory thunder]

moon with Samsung a71

[ivory thunder]

t crb (real)

[fervent eagle]

what is that `?

do u have some more info on that?

cuz i was photographing om that day and saw a weird lightflash in the nightsky still dont know that it was

but no plane or satalite

[gusty zodiac]

meteor?

[fervent eagle]

nah

wasn´t moving

althouh

someone said it could´ve been a meteor headed straight to me yk

this would explain it

tho its really rare

[spring viper]

Russian astronomers have discovered a Nova! 💥🔭 Last night (July 29/30), as part of the "New Milky Way" survey ("New Milky Way", "NMV"), Kirill Sokolovsky, Stas Korotkiy, Nikolay Potapov and Sergey Ostapenko discovered a flare of a nova in our Galaxy! The discovery was made at the "Astroverty" astrofarm in the Arkhyz region (Karachay-Cherkessia, Northern Caucasus, near the BTA SAO RAS) using an ST-8300 CCD camera and a Canon 135mm/2.0 lens.

Before this, the last similar discovery by Russian astronomers was made 4 years ago, and then it was the same team. A nova is a close pair of stars in which matter is exchanged: the white dwarf steals matter (mostly hydrogen) from the surface of the red dwarf. When a thermonuclear explosion occurs on the surface or in the accretion disk of a white dwarf critical lamp and Great Britain begins to burn, this is the moment we call a "nova flash". Neither the white dwarf nor the red giant die at the moment of such a bag (not to be confused with a supernova flash). New stars in the Milky Way flash on average 10 times a year. 90% of them are discovered by Japanese, Australian and American astronomers. But here our astronomers were lucky to be the first who managed to report and inform the world community about the difficulties of existence.

As part of the "New Milky Way" survey, every clear night the entire accessible part of our Galaxy (the Milky Way strip) is filmed, as well as, if possible, the rest of the sky with a resolution of up to +14 mag. Data processing and search for stars is carried out automatically. In addition to this survey, variable stars, the movement of luminous comets and asteroids are observed. In 2012, this survey discovered 4 Nova stars (including current events), ten new dwarf flares and UV Ceti stars, as well as previously unknown stars.

The nova flare occurs in the constellation Vulpecula, near the border with the constellation Sagitta, between the Dumbbell Nebula (M27)

[fervent eagle]

omg

then i saw it

wtffff

[spring viper]

and the Coat Hanger asterism. The star is located exactly in the middle of the spring-summer triangle (Deneb-Vega-Altair), so the conditions for observation are very good - the star is visible high all summer night. Most likely, the star received the designation "Novae Lischiki-2024 №1". At the time of discovery, the brightness of the high star was +11 mag., and today the brightness reached +9.8 mag., which allows this star to be seen in any telescope or solar binoculars. This star can also be photographed using photo lenses with a focus of more than 45 mm. Most likely, in the coming days, the nova outburst will reach its maximum brightness and begin to gradually decrease its brightness.

Early in the evening of July 30 in Japan (this afternoon), Kenta Taguchi of Kyoto University published the spectrum of this attack, which he obtained using a 3.8-meter telescope. Judging by this data, this is a classic nova outburst with an ejection velocity of about 1900 km / sec.

Coordinates of stars: RA=19h 43m 07.50s DEC=+21° 00' 21.4" In the images of the "PanSTARRS-1" survey, an object of +21 mag is visible in the coordinates, and in the Gaia catalog an object of +20 mag. A day before the opening, in the images of the NMW survey, an object with a limiting stellar magnitude of +14.5 mag and high-precision photometry are not visible in these coordinates. So in 2 weeks we expected the publication of a detailed light curve of this moment!

[spring viper]

I think no

[fervent eagle]

really

position should be right

time also matches

oh

nvm

[final crag]

My first try at the core of the Milky Way. My Google pixel 3 has a horrible astrophotography feature and night camera in general so I want able to really do too much

[solar nymph]

Way louder than mine

[iron bear]

Onstep....

My onstep uses the DRV8825 driver for the motors... That's why it makes this noise
I'm going to switch to lv8729; In addition to reducing noise by 80%, it will double the motor's step accuracy

[solar nymph]

mine uses TMC2130

pretty silent, doesn't wake anyone up

[spring viper]

Mine motors nema 17

fast and quiet

[iron bear]

It wakes up the neighbors when I go to the country side. I take photos in a condominium, so it's very quiet... When i do goto, the neighbors' dogs start barking and wake them up

[patent zodiac]

I think i dont need to add up anything

[opaque tundra]

Are some actually that loud?

[shy snow]

yeah, to some really sound-sensitive neighbours

[frank jungle]

My first attempt at capturing Milky Way

[tough nest]

The hell do you mean new star?

Where did it come from?

I didn't know that they just spawn in

[lean magnet]

my bad i misclicked

[somber lantern]

Nova, star becoming very very bright suddenly

[tough nest]

Oh actually makes sense

Like the one in corona borealis

[shy snow]

t Crb?

[tough nest]

Yeah I forgot the name

Srry

[iron bear]

🤓

[shy snow]

Whats that dsc remote control you're using?

[iron bear]

Airdroid for remote control my phone

[shy snow]

This thing?

Cool stuff

[knotty mica]

Where is that?

[iron bear]

yep

[patent zodiac]

You just gave me a brilliant idea. I could use teamviewer to control my laptop thru my desktop instead of coming out of my house and re adjusting everything

[shy snow]

Or you can use anydesk too

[vague shard]

Imx 890 vs imx 772? Which one would be a better option?

[simple crow]

Goofy newt

Why it so skinny

[iron bear]

It's a 114mm/900 F8...

[sterile parrot]

I have 114mm/1000 f9 😭

[simple crow]

I have a 114/450 f3.9

[sterile parrot]

Nice

[patent zodiac]

I have a 130/650 f5

[sterile parrot]

DAYUM

nice

[iron bear]

114/1000 usually has that relay lens, right? They are usually short

[sterile parrot]

One sec

[iron bear]

Yes, it has the relay lens. It's basically a 2x barlow inside the focuser.
If this model didn't have this barlow, it would be a 114/500mm

[sterile parrot]

😭

And it bird jones

[patent zodiac]

How about removing the barlow, would that affect anything?

[spare ravine]

You won’t be able to reach focus

Also, if you would, you would have a ton of spherical aberration

So there is no point in removing the barlow

Buy a new scope

[patent zodiac]

Ahh yeah

Makes sense

Anyways i just wasted 5hrs of data and 4 days of my life on imaging the iris nebula in the wrong colour format

[wind spoke]

Tomorrow my phone adapter will arrive, I will be able to take pictures from my scope and photos with my tripod. My phone is a samsung S22. cannot wait to use RAW for something good

[wild flame]

One 12 minute substack from my S22 Ultra, gonna stack the other few that I got when I can (and edit them properly instead of using samsungs photo editor)
roughly 30 exposures at 24" ISO 1600

[zinc viper]

30s exposure, midrange Samsung

Taken using DeepSkyCamera

[tough nest]

This is a little nicer, I think it's overwhelmingly green in the other

[wild flame]

oh for sure, it was just a quick and rough edit to bring out more detail, my computer is bugging out right now so I gotta figure out a way to export my exposures

[wild flame]

only problem is I cant stack the files in DSS since it hates .DNG

plus they dont want to convert

[wild flame]

only was able to use another substack so roughly 24 minutes

and had to convert it to JPEG

[somber lantern]

I can use dng just fine

[wild flame]

I think it has something to do with samsung's lossless RAW mode

I gotta test it next session

it might be messing with DSS' file type detection

[wind spoke]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1270153521676943512/1270161408289542175/epic2.png?ex=66b2b17e&is=66b15ffe&hm=4ff29576e313038e483845d63b659f36c0a013d3001d5554f3dd5946548a76d2&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=415&height=553

s22, I believe not more than 6 min

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1270153521676943512/1270161049303257118/epic.png?ex=66b2b128&is=66b15fa8&hm=04dd4064e5fd354d91f44f29e0595c68f434c59a0e6bc7e488a9b57740ee6dac&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=415&height=553

[wild flame]

nice, what bortle?

[shy snow]

You can still use deepskycamera as an alternative

[wild flame]

yea I do

its just convenient to run astrophoto mode while I have other gear imaging alongside it

[potent gorge]

run it in siril

[wild flame]

siril doesnt like me so I only really use it for BG extract and touch-ups but I think the lossless RAW is the problem

[potent gorge]

what do you mean doesnt like you

[wild flame]

doesnt really like stacking, I just use DSS since it works for my uses

gives me a bunch of error messages

or it just doesnt register the folders

[potent gorge]

then theres something wrong with the data

[wild flame]

eh, any data doesnt really work

I've tried from my phone and both cameras, jpeg and RAW files

I'll figure it out when I actually need the software

[simple crow]

Yeah siril never liked me but u gotta tame it trust me it will be worth it

[wild flame]

once I get better gear i'll learn

[wind spoke]

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https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1094785164829278238/1270178159429423125/number1.png?ex=66b2c117&is=66b16f97&hm=67a35e63f7ea7891e79fb66ea1868d17a9848845d1d8e06bba719c06d8c870af&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=415&height=553

[wind spoke]

I use rawtherapee

[zinc viper]

Untracked / 10 Frames / 30s Exposure / Bortle 4 / Samsung Galaxy A33 / DeepSkyCamera / ISO 3200 / stacked by bobjonesn
First time doing a stacked shot so gimme feedback

[wind spoke]

ah you stack them, does the a33 not have expsure time settings?

it looks fine, I can see the way

[zinc viper]

It's 30s maximum, even with DeepSkyCamera

[wind spoke]

because the exposure time thing would help more

for example

[wind spoke]

this was like 3-6 min

[wind spoke]

this 12

I see it did iso lower I think

[zinc viper]

2 problems

[wind spoke]

1600

You could definitely just stack your photos and do your thing

[zinc viper]

It only goes up to 30s exposure, and my camera doesn't support RAW so it's stacked JPEGs

[wind spoke]

yeah

My adapter for my eyepieces arrived

I can now take pics with my phone

through the scope

I will go set it up

[zinc viper]

Are there any tips to make it prettier

[shy snow]

You can always try practice data

[tough nest]

This is really nice

[wild flame]

Thank you, although it's still a bit peppery since there was smoke from the wildfires lingering

[zinc viper]

Untracked / 325 Frames / 20s Exposure / 1.8h Capture Time / Bortle 4 / Samsung Galaxy A33 / DeepSkyCamera / ISO 3200 / stacked with Star Trails

[potent gorge]

looks nice

[zinc viper]

i need clout so i might make an instagram to post these on soon

[smoky scaffold]

curious how somebody could make star trails while tracked

[zinc viper]

360° rotation after every frame fr fr fr fr fr fr fr fr fr

[bronze jackal]

My best milky way image yet with only 4 minutes of data, I love how it matches the angle of the house

S22 Ultra from bortle 5. subs were 10 seconds ISO 500

[zinc viper]

would be nice to know what caused the lines that yk-- arent supposed to be there-- anyone know about this?

[lime horizon]

The satalites?

[zinc viper]

theyre sattelites?

[lime horizon]

I think so

[zinc viper]

starlink then

now i can see why people werent exactly hyped about them

[smoky scaffold]

planes or satellites

but one of them is a meteor which is cool

[zinc viper]

wait can you circle where it is?

or describe

[zinc viper]

dazza meteor?

[smoky scaffold]

yeah notice how it looks different from the other lines

[zinc viper]

wait where are the sattelites and planes then

[smoky scaffold]

it is dim, bright briefly, then dim and gone

[zinc viper]

theres some red light trails

thats the planes right

like dotted lines

[zinc viper]

this is my first time stacking more than 2 mins / 4 frames of stuff

literally my 5th day taking pics of the stars

so im still a bit very much clueless

[smoky scaffold]

no worries

[iron bear]

A widefield Orion from last year. This is basically the xisf with Blurxterminator and a little strech (I can give it more strech), but I think I'll wait for Orion season again, because I took this photo with high clouds

[simple crow]

Wow

[iron bear]

This green artifact is from a tree

[simple crow]

Hey ur from Sao paulo cool

I've been there

[simple crow]

Waiting for my turn on orion (when it rises in the northern hemisphere)

[iron bear]

Cool! I do these widefields outside the city. I usually go to some bortle 3-4 place

Within the city, i only do Dso with a filter like the CLS

[simple crow]

Oh ok

[simple crow]

Which CLS filter do you use I need one, and do you reccomend it?

I was considering the svbony ones but my friend @edgy talon says it's trash

[edgy talon]

Never worked for me when I had a phone

Gave it away

[simple crow]

Yeah a phone

Maybe an actual camera would benefit from it?

[iron bear]

It's already appearing here around 5 am. But I'll wait more

[edgy talon]

Just go narrowband bruh

[simple crow]

Fair

[edgy talon]

You can already do long-exposure

[simple crow]

But it's so expensivee

[simple crow]

Nah probably not with this heavy ass scope

[edgy talon]

It’s so worth it though dude

[iron bear]

It´s a svbony 1,25 cls

[edgy talon]

Best thing you can buy for your B9

[simple crow]

Dude it costs double the amount of my scope with taxes

[edgy talon]

Trust

[simple crow]

Yeah I know it's great

[edgy talon]

And all lights are mostly LED and not sodium based

[simple crow]

Yeah

Fair

[edgy talon]

CLS is kinda outdated

[simple crow]

I live in a pretty modern city I RARELY see sodium/tungsten or whatever

[iron bear]

Here in São Paulo, Bortle 9 is essential. But in a bortle lass than 7, I think I would do it without any filter

[edgy talon]

It could work

It gives you a pink-blue tint

[simple crow]

Nah I think ur right narrowband is a better idea

Not that I can reasonably afford it

I mean I COULD

[edgy talon]

What f-ratio scope?

[simple crow]

3.9

Need a coma corrector badly too

[edgy talon]

You’re gonna have to obstruct a little to like f/4.8

[simple crow]

F3.9 ebay mirror is a recipe for disaster

[simple crow]

but less aperture:((((((

[edgy talon]

Actually your obstruction from the mirror might bring it down a lot

[iron bear]

It is... Cls helps, but it's still not enough to get around all the pollution

[simple crow]

Yeah

[edgy talon]

Dan your scope won’t really be so fast since your mirror is gonna obstruct a lot of your aperture

[simple crow]

Is that a before after comparison?

[edgy talon]

It will still be wide though

[simple crow]

My secondary will obstruct?

[iron bear]

Same exposure time for both. From here in B9

[edgy talon]

Yes it’s 44mm right?

[simple crow]

With and without CLS?

[simple crow]

45mm

[edgy talon]

M

You’re gonna be at like f/4.8 or something

But you can use the narrowband with it

[simple crow]

Don't I want to block out the EDGES of the mirror tho?

[edgy talon]

Why would you?

[simple crow]

Coma

[edgy talon]

No

[simple crow]

U said i should obstruct it

[edgy talon]

Yeah but the mirror stops it down enough

[simple crow]

Oh

[edgy talon]

My roki does close from the sides though

Like my apeture

[iron bear]

Fast Newtonians are not as good in the afocal method with the phone. I used a 150mm F4 with very high quality ATM optics with a sharpstar coma corrector and it still had more distortion than my 114 F8 with a Chinese mirror

55s single shot from both
150F4 at left and 114F8 at right

I left the eyepiece 55mm away from the coma corrector considering the standard backfocus of the Sharpstar corrector. Maybe you can adjust it better if you do more backfocus tests

But it is still more complicated, as eyepiece distortions tend to get worse in faster telescopes.

This photo was taken with this telescope and coma corrector, but with a astrocamera. So you can get the idea that the optical quality of this telescope was perfect without eyepiece

https://www.astrobin.com/6bc4vz/

[zinc viper]

133 Frames Stack @ 20s Exposure / Bortle 4
my first time stacking

[smoky scaffold]

what’s the target here

[zinc viper]

No target

Just photo

[violet mica]

Phone?

[simple crow]

why does the f8 capture more

[somber lantern]

Of course

Wait you meant which phone

Moto g13

[somber lantern]

Because the newt has to use a coma corrector (obligatory) and the f8 one doesn't

[simple crow]

What

[iron bear]

You mean nebula details? I noticed that the cell phone doesn't take advantage of the entire image circle of the 150F4. It's like I'm only getting half the light
I noticed this when I unfocused the star and went to align the phone adapter; Even leaving the second circle centered, there was a lot of light left in the corners, which was obstructed by something. Whether eyepiece, cell phone or the phone adapter itself

This doesn't happen on my 114F8. The Circle fits perfectly when I unfocus the image

[zinc viper]

Gonna do wide field milky way tonight, B3/4, I trust youll stack&edit it for me @terse smelt my brother:P

[terse smelt]

actually doing something today rip

[zinc viper]

Nah I'll send it tomorrow

Milky Way will become visible in 30min according to stellarium

Maybe I'll do 1h imaging if I can get around to it

[lean magnet]

you dont need 1h

whats your bortle

[lean magnet]

i mean do as much as you can, but you dont need to do 1h to get it

[lean magnet]

why do u need someone else to stack

[zinc viper]

4 leaning towards 3

[lean magnet]

bruh

lucky

[zinc viper]

On holiday, not at my pc rn

[lean magnet]

im bortle 6 leaning towards 7

[lean magnet]

o

[lean magnet]

i got what id say is decent from less than 1h in my bortle

i could try stacking and processing it

[zinc viper]

I'm on a phone without raw support tho

[somber lantern]

That's pretty low I'd aim for like 20 mins

[somber lantern]

If no raw then there isn't much point in stacking

[lean magnet]

bortle

not int time

[lean magnet]

😭

[zinc viper]

Do I do 30s exposures and pray

Extremely lucky imaging

[somber lantern]

I know

In that bortle I'd aim for 20 mins

[lean magnet]

zander is doing 1h

[lean magnet]

i do 8s on phone

[somber lantern]

Well I guess the more the better

I'm not sure if you can stack non raw files (excluding fit/tif)

You probably can it just won't be as good

[zinc viper]

WELL YEAB

Alr I'ma go to my spot now

[somber lantern]

Never tried

[zinc viper]

You can

[ancient rampart]

Well we can already see orion if you can wake up at 4am 😅

[zinc viper]

It's worth a shot I'd say

[zinc viper]

Didn't pick up at all lmfao

Light pollution map lied this is never a B4

[lean magnet]

are u sure u were pointed in the right place

and focused

[zinc viper]

Yes

Stellarium assured me I was right multiple times

[spring viper]

But the magnification is less on a fast telescope.

Hence more distortions

[edgy talon]

The slower you are the less imperfections

[simple crow]

How does that affect light gathering

[edgy talon]

Lowers it but it makes your data a whole lot better

F/2 is unusable in b9’s

F/8? Your only doing Pleiades or M42

[violet mica]

Crazy

[somber lantern]

I really don't know what sensor it uses but it does really nice I swear you couldn't even see the core in a single frame

[violet mica]

Issue is the closest i got to a good camera is an iphone 11 pro

Other stuff is either just really old or dosent even have exposure settings

[somber lantern]

Damn

[quaint night]

ligth pollution on peak

[spice gale]

At least you can see the milkyway

You wouldn't even guess that is the MW

And it says it is b7

Looks like b11

[dusk crow]

Andromeda and Milky Way galaxy from B6 sky’s with IPhone 13, 2.8m total exposure.

[zinc viper]

That's a 30s sub

[solar tapir]

Hi all @lime horizon directed me here 🙂 This is what I'm using. Got a Google Pixel 8 but have noticed the Open Camera app which advertises complete control, doesn't seem to let me control exposure length? Wondered if anyone had any experience with the Pixel phones and astrophotography? 🙂 thanks

[quaint night]

[spice gale]

Yh it's worst than you can imagine

[zinc viper]

LMAO

[spice gale]

I mean it depends on which part of the sky you're looking at

[obsidian fern]

Have anyone tried this eyepiece for AP?

[quasi ivy]

Hello

[lean magnet]

hi

[solar tapir]

Just testing the set up, near, far (wherever you are!) think I'm good for catching saturn tonight

i've even dabbed lil bits of nail varnish on all the dials so i know where the sweet spots are for all the adjusters...should i turn one/knock one in the dark

[spice gale]

Good luck capturing saturn

[solar tapir]

thank you ❤️ even though it's just 'put ur phone in the celestron phone holder, attach and go' its so finicky you have to set it up so carefully in daylight. cant just whack it on in the dark

[spice gale]

Yes

[solar tapir]

its a 10mm lens (only one chunky enough for celestron thing to grab hold of) and a barlow 2x

[spice gale]

You have to check colimation, then focus and then finding satirn

[spice gale]

That would be good

[solar tapir]

is my colimation out? ive got a laser thing and it was as centre as i could get it

[spice gale]

But what telescope do you have?

[spice gale]

Then it is good

[solar tapir]

Zhumell Z114

[spice gale]

Nice

Hope you have clear skies and good luck

[solar tapir]

it didnt come collimated. planets were fuzzy, i bought a laser collimator, just turned dials until the dot was centered and then it was like upgrading the scope

[spice gale]

Yes ik, one night I watched saturn and it was very fuzzy, and my focus was right, after I colimated it was as sharp as my telescope can do

It is a very important step

[solar tapir]

colimation can go out of line easily?

so might i need to do it again this evening when its colder?

[spice gale]

It can

[spice gale]

No, maybe just check but it shouldn't

But you should every night you go out

[solar tapir]

thankfully the telescope isnt moved around much but handy to know. 🙂

[spice gale]

I always bring my collimation cap outside

[spice gale]

Then it is good

[solar tapir]

goal a) shoot saturn with video
stretch goal) shoot the north american nebula using either the telescope + phone, or my 25-400mm zoom lens camera

[spice gale]

I don't think you will be able to shoot NAN with single exposure, maybe just stacked

[solar tapir]

oh yeah i'd be stacking 🙂

[spice gale]

Ok then

I have problem installing siril

So I can't do ds

[solar tapir]

wish i could help but you already sound far more knowledgeable on all this than me. I'm not even sure what Siril is - this is a relatively new hobby for me 🙂

[spice gale]

Siril is stacking dso

What app do you use for stacking dso?

[solar tapir]

DSS

[zealous edge]

What phone adaptor is that, looks pretty nice

[somber lantern]

Not really if moved around often maybe once a year

I haven't collimated mine since I got it on July of 2023

[smoky scaffold]

Celestron nexyz probably

[smoky scaffold]

collimate every time before use??

[lime horizon]

If you're planning on imaging i think it's considered good practice because you don't want to be an hour in or have finished your stack and notice you're not collimated

[smoky scaffold]

I’ve had a very similar scope go on 30m car rides for almost a year and when I checked collimation it was slightly out

[spice gale]

Dayum

[shy snow]

A single edited sub of deneb a few days ago

Gotta get more data cause that night's data was screwed up

[tough nest]

First attempt at the dumbbell neb

Not good at all but I'm happy with it

[sterile parrot]

U need more total exposure maybe higher iso

[coral cedar]

Hdr moon, waxing crescent

[sterile parrot]

Thats beautiful

[coral cedar]

man idk about this, doing this untracked

Total 1 min exposure
5 sec/pic

[smoky scaffold]

1m subs at untracked will NOT work

max like 1-2 seconds

[coral cedar]

I mean i capture it 5 sec/pic

And stack it

[zealous edge]

I would try doing 0.1 to 0.5 second exposures, and absolutely hundreds of them. Might take a while to get everything, but there should be very little visible trailing if any at all, and as long as your integration time adds up to a pretty decent amount, i.e. something like 5 ~ 10 minutes for your setup, you can get a good quality image.

[coral cedar]

Agree, but idk about pc storage

I need tons space

Especially siril, it take 13x times than the original pic

Idk how about dss, haventr try it yet

[shy snow]

Whao

Ok nvm

I just saw something and i cant unsee it

[shy snow]

I got 2 minutes of data over 2 nights with 0.6s subs untracked at 700mm

[zealous edge]

Ok

[tough nest]

Yeah I'm gonna stack later today

Discord also makes it look terrible

[solar tapir]

Andromeda from a Google Pixel, astro mode on the camera, stacked a few images
Bortle 5

[runic socket]

30s exposure from a s23fe

edited in pix

original

[somber lantern]

Seeing was generous so I did some close ups

[smoky scaffold]

pls use raw mode

[somber lantern]

I do

All of them are edited raws

Discord compression got them tho

[opaque tundra]

Moon setting off and probably going to Australia

[zinc heart]

Was looking for meteors but something else came in:

[sterile parrot]

That is some crazy timing

[shy snow]

Fr

[vernal tide]

Took this with my phone and an untracked dobsonian back in March (1 minute total exposure time)

[iron bear]

https://www.astrobin.com/2ayk9k/

I posted this photo of the cluster with the planetary nebula on Astrobin. I need to redo it with the new phone and new eyepiece (And no pinched optics), but I still like this photo a lot despite the lower quality.

[dreamy hedge]

Photo of the moon I took yesterday with my Iphone and Dob, it’s not stacked just a single photo

[opaque tundra]

Very nice

[dreamy hedge]

Ty

[nimble harness]

For a single photo it's pretty good. You'd probably get insane results if you stacked though

[tough nest]

How much time would I need for cloud bands on Andromeda? B9 & 5,5 dob

[red tapir]

Does anyone know how to stack photos with a phone?

[lilac pawn]

Single photo through an 8inch dobsonian

[dreamy hedge]

I tried stacking a 30-40 secs video but didn't like the results much might try longer videos

[spice gale]

Yes

What is your target?

[red tapir]

M8

Or M31

[spice gale]

Take multiple photos low exposure then stack in dss or siril

[smoky scaffold]

astroshader

[red tapir]

I tried but the photos aren't the same

[red tapir]

Phone app or laptop app?

[smoky scaffold]

phone app if you use an iphone

[red tapir]

Nope

I don't have an iphone

[smoky scaffold]

nevermind then

[spice gale]

Told you

Use deepskycamera or pro mode with autoclicker

1s maybe exposure time

Do multiple images

Then use dss

[lean magnet]

no pro mode with autoclicker

just use deep sky camera

[spice gale]

Yes

Pro mode with aitoclicker for MW photos and stack

[lean magnet]

nuh uh

[nimble harness]

Yeah u need to get that up to 5 mins

The details will be wild

[smoky scaffold]

huh

[spice gale]

Nothing

Idk why I said that😭

[somber lantern]

I love this cluster glad to see it imaged

[terse crown]

Captured this from my window yesterday. Managed to get Jupiter, Mars, the Pleiades, Betelgeuse, Elnath and Aldebaran in one shot

[spice gale]

That looks so good compared to mine

[dreamy hedge]

What are some good iphone apps for deep sky objects that i can later stack on pc?

[potent gorge]

astroshader

we have a forum here on astroshader

[smoky scaffold]

astroshader

its does the exposures and stacking

[sterile parrot]

Mine

Also accidentally imaged ngc 1647

Rlly out of focus but yh

• star trails wrong image one sec

[shy snow]

https://youtube.com/shorts/tCKhFrkYdXQ?si=JNjhWQ6klwYplYgN

[red tapir]

Settings???

[lean magnet]

literally just mess around with it until it's good lol

I do use the normal camera app to find my iso and exposure time

Then I switch to deepskycamera for the actual images

[red tapir]

But the images are diffrent

And I can't stack them

[lean magnet]

Wdym

Yes you can

[red tapir]

They are diffrent

[lean magnet]

Wdym they are different

[red tapir]

In what app

[lean magnet]

Deepskycamera

[red tapir]

I can stack them

[lean magnet]

No

[red tapir]

I use siril

[lean magnet]

You cant stack them on mobile

[red tapir]

I know

[lean magnet]

Yea so what's the issue

[red tapir]

I can't stack them

[lean magnet]

Why not

[red tapir]

And if I stack them is horibble

[lean magnet]

Should work fine

[lean magnet]

Wdym by horrible

What happens

[red tapir]

I tryed this

And the result is horibble

[lean magnet]

Too long exposure time

Very trailed

[red tapir]

1 second?

[lean magnet]

I do 8 seconds

[red tapir]

And you have trails?

[lean magnet]

It shouldn't look like that tho

Even in your single subs

[lean magnet]

No

[red tapir]

Howww

[lean magnet]

Idk

[red tapir]

What phone do you havez

[lean magnet]

I did 4s exposures for my Cygnus

And 8s for my mw core

[lean magnet]

s20+

[red tapir]

Can you show me some photos?

[red tapir]

This is the milky way

[lean magnet]

Yes

[red tapir]

I put it into a telescope

[lean magnet]

Oh

[red tapir]

What telescope?

[lean magnet]

150/750 dob

[red tapir]

Stacked?

[lean magnet]

yea ofc

i could never do that with a single sub😭

even with my new astrocam

[red tapir]

How much frames to put?

[lean magnet]

As many as you can

More integration time better

[red tapir]

But the photos are diffrent😭

[lean magnet]

Wdym

[red tapir]

And is getting out of Field

[red tapir]

Beacuse of this

[lean magnet]

Yea just keep moving it

Put as many as you can before it gets close to the edge

If you accidentally put too many you can stop it early

[lean magnet]

Then move it back, do the exposures again, repeat

[red tapir]

Ok

Thanks

[somber lantern]

They dont have to be exact

It's better if it is because you can have a bigger field but it's not necessary

Also take short exposures like 0.5s or 0.3s if 1s shows trailing

[red tapir]

I can't stack them

I tryed on siril

[spice gale]

Try dss then

[spice gale]

Deep sky stacker

[somber lantern]

Yeah try dss

[shy snow]

Try DSS and you gotta keep centering the object after every few subs

[simple crow]

Bro 1 minute how

[dry falcon]

Took some photos of the M13, M57 and M27 with a celestron astromaster 130eq and an iPhone 11. Any feedback?

[simple crow]

Uh

The first one

I can only see when I look off to the side

Pretty much

That's uh

[dry falcon]

Maybe turn your brightness up (idk why it wasn’t a bright image)

[vernal tide]

120 × 0.5 second exposures

[simple crow]

Oh yeah ur right

[runic socket]

from a s23fe

no scope, just phone

[spice gale]

tell me more ab the image pls

[runic socket]

8mins of 30s subs taken in Pro Mode of my phone, frames stacked and edited in pixlnsight on the 2 Milky Way pics

6m30s of 30s again for the Andromeda pic (and if you look under it you can just make out Triangulam Galaxy)

[spice gale]

They are beautiful

Do you thing the s23 ultra will do better?

[runic socket]

the ultra is a bigger mb camera so in theory yes the ultra should be better

[red tapir]

How do tou stack video?

Videos*?

[runic socket]

Use a program called AutoStakkert 4 for videos (my pics are just frames, no video)

[spice gale]

And you also use the pro video mode

On your camera

Better than regular video mod

Bc you can focus and change brightness

[dusk crow]

First time Orion Nebula

[zealous edge]

Those trees in the foreground are making the Geiger Counter in my room go off

[zealous scaffold]

do you use a tripod or something to hold up your phone, i always have to prop mine up against an object then nudge my finger behind it to press the shutter button and its so annoying lol (if you do use a tripod please tell me what tripod, i need one desperately)

[terse smelt]

couldn't you set a delay?

[timid wedge]

Nicee

Orion with 6inch dob and phone

[potent gorge]

data was from a while ago, only processed now bc i forgor 💀

galaxy s20

[runic socket]

I use a cheap tripod yes

[zealous scaffold]

nice, ive been browsing at a $15 one that extends 60 in up, prob gonna purchase it so i dont have to go through the pain of leaning my phone against stuff

[runic socket]

I'm currently at work so can't do a link but once I finish in the morning I'll give you a link to what I have - all I bought was a cheap metal phone holder, took of the holder bit and screwed it on the tripod bit (your see what I mean when I send a few pics jn the morning) - all in all I spent about £40

[zealous scaffold]

ah ok thanks, take ur time

[somber lantern]

I got my tripod for $6 it kinda broke down after a year but for the price it's amazing

[simple crow]

Hey s23fe gang

[runic socket]

You got 1 as well? I'm speechless with it

[simple crow]

Wdym speechless with it?

[lean magnet]

bortle?

That's insane

[runic socket]

my previous phone was a s20 so the jump in quality to the s23 made me speechless lol i was not expecting milky way shots like this

[runic socket]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Victiv-Camera-Portable-Aluminum-Detachable/dp/B0B8YHTWGY/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2AEXUTWCV4CD6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.g5Xx3ANMGrCQdwFPgWOyIeXEcJ4AbFbrqjBEfIQgPINohgnopMBSFV8-tlMq1xS9v-n3iwKbPehP6sqgKFSKAgREh7WGHJ5rEKZTrRJ6LSDB6jBqJmpRbK4t8FeQh0emnPgef-Iwwau07DsVafKmt2SJQZpmy1l29wDmd84sotYBRZP3Um3tf82r1RTOZE5QR10qv4i6lZLlynoDtAUOS5RnuSJHUdNGFLXSvp9wnpU.VZWh2HgMY4_5OaeXuP5LVnVsJEtT-AkyT39mDvCIo_U&dib_tag=se&keywords=vivitar+camera+tripod&qid=1724082990&sprefix=vivitar+camera+tripod%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-3 - this is the closest i found to my mount

[ancient rampart]

Recently reworked some data i had, not the best but quite better than my last processes

[spice gale]

Looks so good

[simple crow]

Yeah I like the s23fe camera very much but it does have these circle artifacts that go along the whole image

[runic socket]

That's nice, yeah I've only tried it for astro once so far so will be interesting to see what it can really do

[zealous scaffold]

taking a digital photography class so i get access to an actual camera, hopefully will be allowed to use it for my telescope

[potent shore]

That's actually epic for a s23 fe, I used the same phone to capture milky way as well in a bortle sky 5 but comes nothing to yours

stacked through sequater

[dusk crow]

Full moon with Eyepiece. Astromaster114eq telescope.

[runic socket]

all i did was capture about 20 RAW frames in Pro Mode, think i was either 800 or 640 ISO, then stacked and edited in pix

me personally i would of done all sky and no foreground so i can use Graxpert (its free) as it will make a huge difference especially with Graxpert de-noise

[clear hawk]

captured using my partners phone and my 8in dob

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/774642899811303424/1275080053742375064/20240819_225911.mp4?ex=66c53f16&is=66c3ed96&hm=00d1f37e0b6c0f37c998385a721721383e278a381468fdd87092a71597eb793f&

also a cool live view of the earths rotation while looking through the eyepiece

[potent shore]

My settings were a bit different with iso 800 and 10 second exposures, I got about 45 raw frames. I don't know though, might check out those websites your talking about

[fiery rover]

268 frames

from yesterday's moon

minimal editing...just cropping, sharpening, improving the contrast just a little bit and maxing out the black level

oh also a bit of denoising done with astro surface...pretty useful tool

shot on a Heritage 130p

[spice gale]

Wow looks so nice

[somber lantern]

The moon and venus

[fiery rover]

damn that was shot with a phone?

which phone do U have?

[somber lantern]

Moto g13

[spice gale]

very nice mineral moon

[potent shore]

the moon and saturn

through the powerseeker 114eq and s23 fe

[fading bobcat]

1. Discord compression sucks omg
2. It probably isn't that great anywho, but I haven't touched my gear in months.

[potent gorge]

what filter did you use

and scope

looks cool

[fading bobcat]

I used a generic astromaster solar filter I got for the eclipse, I want to upgrade but before I do that I want to upgrade my OTA

It was a generic 130mm newtonian

Like 20 5s videos stacked togehter.

[fiery rover]

damn...U did a hell of a job with that moon... absolutely spectacular

[somber lantern]

Thamk

[iron bear]

[spice gale]

As usual, Lucas with yet another banger!

[iron bear]

Widefield Milky Way

• Reprocessing

Exif:
📷 Xiaomi 12 (IMX 776), 24mm F1.7 + EQ3 with OnStep
⚙️ 251x55s ISO 400
📌 Munhoz, Brazil. Bortle 4~

For better resolution, check the photo on my Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/kcmzoy/

[smoky scaffold]

oh come on…

[fading bobcat]

I'll get better equipment soon dw. I had to use a 20mm on a 2x barlow

Here's one from 2022 for comparison

[vague shard]

Milkyway season is over for me here , but I had a question is imx 890 as capable as 776? Will it be able to resolve like this ?

[iron bear]

The 890 is basically the same sensor. Same size, same pixelsize etc... Only difference is that the Bayer is WRGB instead of the RGGB of the 766. The W serves as luminance, giving more signal to the other filters. So yes, you get the same result

[vague shard]

I'll have a nothing phone 2 w me next season so it'll be fun

[vague warren]

This was fun, tried the periscope telephoto lens on my pixel 7 pro.

Max sub length is 16" which is annoying, but threw the phone on my skyguider pro and got like 13 min of data + calibration frames.

Surpassed my expectations tbh

Bortle 8+ light dome to my south as well lol

The lens that was used

[runic socket]

133x30s subs on a s23fe

[lean magnet]

how did you get your stars so good

[smoky scaffold]

blurx

[lean magnet]

Cry

[lean magnet]

i got an astrocam so no more phone with scope but until i get widefield stuff phone is still my only choice for that

[dusk crow]

My new Setup

Really hard to focus!

[terse smelt]

are you using 2 eyepieces as a scope??

[lean magnet]

looks like it

[zealous edge]

That definitely belongs in the cursed setups thread, oh my lord

[lean magnet]

white corners fixed

[dusk crow]

Yes a 40mm eyepiece for Collect light and 6mm eyepiece as a eyepiece and you need to focus with your hands by doing a space between the eyepieces

[terse smelt]

neat

didnt think the optics of that would work

[dusk crow]

Yeah I doing weird think and I always find something

I look at The andromeda galaxy it’s very dark

[nimble harness]

Cleannnn

[tough nest]

Clean but why does mw look so blue?

Is this unprocessed?

[smoky scaffold]

processed in the camera app

the sky just came out pretty blue but then I bumped saturation

[tough nest]

Can I have the unprocessed?

[tough nest]

👍

Ill try my best in Lightroom lol

[smoky scaffold]

nevermind idk how the sky got so blue

[tough nest]

I'm just really bored

[smoky scaffold]

alright

[spare ravine]

Way to overprocessed

[tough nest]

I look back on it, and holy crap that is very overprocessed

[spare ravine]

I like this version the best, the blue really makes the image pop

[spice gale]

whatsapp

[dusk crow]

M31 with IPhone 12 Pro Max. B6 5x85

[potent gorge]

google drive

[formal notch]

def not cloud storage

[shy snow]

You sonuva witchhead nebula

[vague shard]

I used to do that lol, its convenient for less files but slow internet is an issue for me

[spice gale]

For me not, and I only stack planetary șo yeah

[coral cedar]

How did you manage to get the color of nebula?

[tough nest]

Xiaomi

[potent gorge]

processing

[minor basin]

Memory card for my dslr, discord dms for my phone 💀

[smoky scaffold]

Discord will compress your files

[minor basin]

Ik, I haven’t don’t much, mainly just to get it on pc to send to some friends

Otherwise I’d use google drive prob or just plug my phone in to my pc

[runic socket]

I'm looking into a ioptron startracker pro for my phone, anyone got 1 and how good are they?

[potent gorge]

No more seestar

[iron bear]

Saturation and curves

Range selection to protect the background and select highlights

[runic socket]

100% seestar, it's my main rig 😂

[opaque tundra]

Um actually it's a toy ☝️ 🤓

[potent gorge]

youre a toy.

[runic socket]

its a real telescope 😝

[patent zodiac]

Orions nebula thru my friends begginer refractor

[timid wedge]

15x30sec exposures in Bortle 2 with my phone

[atomic rampart]

Damn lucky the darkest ive ever been to is 4 with light pollution surrounding you

[simple crow]

Same

[atomic rampart]

Lier lier pants on fire

Youve been to a bortle 2

[iron bear]

Galaxies and Milkyway arm - Magellanic Clouds

• 2022 processing, but with new pixinsight tools.

📋 Exif:
📷 Xiaomi Mi9T (imx 586), 24mm f1.8
⚙36x35s ISO 1600. Tripé fixo
📌 Contryside of São Paulo - Brazil. Bortle 3-4
this image in astrobin: https://astrob.in/thnh7l/0/

[spring viper]

What are these new tools?

[iron bear]

Basically BlurX and star reduction

[simple crow]

What no

It was not bortle 2

It said on the light pollution map it was bortle 2

But it was like bortle 4

[atomic rampart]

Its bortle 2

[simple crow]

u weren't even there😭

[zealous scaffold]

Light pollution map is data from 2015, it's outdated, best to assume it's a bortle or 2 bortles higher than what it says

[simple crow]

Yeah

[tough nest]

Bro really has my dream view😭

Bucketlist view😭😭

[terse smelt]

mercury

(7mm eyepiece, celestron 102az samsung s21 fe)

[edgy talon]

Make some salt water and bring that bortle down 😎

[zealous scaffold]

Better than mine

[sick kernel]

Took these shoots off saturn the other day i think they are ok

Sry if i dont respond i got school tomorrow

[terse smelt]

dont think i can get much more detail with the small scope and phone

[coral cedar]

At least i can see the double band tho

This is my jupiter tho..

[nimble harness]

For some reason mine was super bright

[shy snow]

Mine was hella noisy (cant even see the soft edges 😭)

[zealous scaffold]

did u lower ISO before shooting?

my jupiter

[nimble harness]

Yeah ik how to do it all its just after putting it into registax it kinda messed it up

[zealous scaffold]

huh weird maybe you had a few frames that were brighter than the others, or a frame where light leaked into the lens

[nimble harness]

Possibly. I am getting a planetary cam soon so I'll be able to get better details

[zealous scaffold]

yipppeeee, im just gonna buy a DSLR because id like to spend money on something i can use for normal photography and astrophotography

[nimble harness]

Yknow I shoulda thought of that before I went and bought a planetary cam

[zealous scaffold]

lmfaoo its all good, planetary cams arent as pricey as a 585 mc pro which is what i was planning on getting

[nimble harness]

I also should have focused on getting tracking before getting a camera

[zealous scaffold]

oh yeah tracking might be nice hah

[tough nest]

I think less magnification would do you some good