Phone Astrophotography

[simple crow]

🥝

[somber lantern]

How small the scope

[terse smelt]

102mm

[somber lantern]

Yeah doubt it

I need to see the lmc one day

[tough nest]

Me too, it's literally bucketlist for me

[tough nest]

That's messed up

[iron bear]

To the naked eye, they are gigantic. And you can see them well. Think about how the moon practically looks like a star in a cellphone lens; now compare that with the LMC, which remains relatively large even through a cellphone lens... They are immense

The LMC occupies 10 degrees of the sky; by comparison, the moon occupies only 0.5 degrees. The LMC takes up the area that 20 moons would... Gigantic

[somber lantern]

No wonder it's the large magellanic cloud

Might go to a b5 this summer

[smoky scaffold]

and it's only magnitude 0.9....

or 0.13 which is what wikipedia says

such a bright massive object

[simple crow]

what I'm just saying it's green so it looks like a kiwi

[tough nest]

I got that

[simple crow]

how is that messed up.

it's a harmless little joke

how is that even close to anything messed up

[smoky scaffold]

it is literally a kiwi

[terse smelt]

chromatic aberration pog

also atmospheric dispersion pog

[zealous edge]

Sometimes, the chromatic aberration in my images looks like eric cartman from south park lol

[nimble harness]

What

[gusty zodiac]

can relate 😔 #1020657687291252797 message

[fleet bramble]

failed north american nebula attempt

[simple crow]

it was a completely experimental version

[tough nest]

🍉

[elder birch]

If you stretch the image really far you can see it starting to appear at the bottom of the image.
Looks like it was cropped out of the FOV a bit

[fleet bramble]

Oh wow

What edits did you do?

Ill try a longer exposure time tonight

[elder birch]

I just brightened the image and stretched the histogram, a lot 😅

[cobalt brook]

Wish my Jupiter was this good

this is maybe a tad better...

[elder birch]

Unexpectedly good conditions on a trip.
B4 location but nothing but an iPhone and phone stand.
Attempt at shooting the North America nebula:
iPhone15, 6 seconds x200, ISO 4000. Stacked and edited on the same phone

Crop of North America nebula

[zealous scaffold]

It was just a 3 min video tracked and then I stacked all the frames together

[cobalt brook]

I don't have tracking unfortunately

[zealous scaffold]

You can still get good Jupiter data, you just gotta record for 3 mins and keep Jupiter in frame

[sterile spoke]

i want to get into astrophotography and ive got no idea where to start is there anyone i can talk to for advice/recomendations?

[vernal tide]

This is a single 6 second exposure I took back in February (handheld)

[zealous edge]

How big of an aperture does your setup have for that to be only six seconds?? That's nuts for six seconds

[zealous scaffold]

#🤓-ask-a-nerd or ask in #💬-general-chat , I recommend looking into a telescope, specifically telescopes called dobsonians. If you need any help when it comes to phone AP you can ask here

[zealous scaffold]

Bortle?

[timid wedge]

bro this is 25sec integration in b4

how did u get that in 6 goddamn sec

[nimble harness]

I rested my 40 lb 10" newtonian on my leg to take this

It was like 10 sec exposure

That was 2 years ago

Or no

Last year

[simple crow]

sorry handheld???

[iron bear]

Probably rotating the Mount axis by hand to follow along a bit..

I did that a lot in 2021 when I didn't have OnStep 💀

[zealous scaffold]

I'm just waiting for Orion to return bc it's one of my favorite objects to shoot, like I have 0 clue what to shoot when it's gone

[vernal tide]

12"

[vernal tide]

4.5

[vernal tide]

Yes, I took that with a 12" Dobsonian telescope, 32mm eyepiece and a Google Pixel 6

[shy snow]

bortle 4.5 and 12 inch aperture and this result with 6 seconds handheld?

im jealous

[elder birch]

Milky Way from B4. iPhone15 4s x600, ISO 3000
(Excuse the shameful amount of walking noise)

[zealous scaffold]

My best milky way (it's extremely faint bc of the moon but it's barely visible to the right of it)

[sterile parrot]

Whats that bubble thing

[opaque tundra]

I think moon glare

[sterile parrot]

Oh alr

[zealous scaffold]

Reflection of the moon on my lens

[opaque tundra]

Why are all my pro mode pictures coming out soo bright like this?

I’m doing 30s exposure and 800 iso

Anyone with a Samsung know what to do?

[lean magnet]

normal

[lean magnet]

that's normal when you go to process it'll be fine

also use deepskycamera

[opaque tundra]

i tried using that its alot more confusing compared to the ios app

[lean magnet]

it's not confusing whar

[opaque tundra]

idk its worse than astroshader by alot imo

i was trying to only take 1 image but it keeps taking 100+

[zealous scaffold]

The DSC update is kinda annoying it's hard to tell which tab does what because it doesn't have text that says anymore it's just an image

[lean magnet]

go here and set it to 1

[lean magnet]

ig but the icons are fine imo

[zealous scaffold]

Yeah I just dunno which icons do certain things lol

[fleet bramble]

are you using the astrophoto mode in the expert raw app?

[opaque tundra]

i dont have that mode on the S20Fe

[lean magnet]

bortle 6-7

[somber lantern]

Wow that's really good

I should try the milky way one day, sadly it's too low for me

[lean magnet]

oh damn i made andromeda too bright

i gotta fix that

[zealous scaffold]

looks good, discord compression kinda screws it over a bit lol

[lean magnet]

not really

the original image is not much better

[zealous scaffold]

i mean its really good for a phone tho

esp for b6-7

[lean magnet]

i need to get something to stop doing phone tho

i will get a cheap widefield setup in the future

i have no idea when "in the future" is though

after i get a better mount for my scope but idk when that is too

[lean magnet]

like 25 min int time

i think

yea 96x15s

24 min

[zealous scaffold]

do you just use a tripod and point your phone up at the sky with DSC or something?

[lean magnet]

exactly that

well i use the pro mode in the normal camera app first to find my object

then i do that

[zealous scaffold]

when will google add pro mode to pixel phones cri

[lean magnet]

pixel phones dont have pro mode??

[zealous scaffold]

nope

i think they added it for the pixel 7 pro, the 8, and the 9, but 6 doesnt have it which is what i have

[lean magnet]

pixel 6 was released in 2021 and doesnt have a pro mode

how

[zealous scaffold]

dunno

[slate bone]

Samsung Galaxy S23 ✌️

[spice gale]

What telescope?

[slate bone]

SVBONY SV503 102ED with the 0.8x reducer

and i was using a dual narrowband filter

[spice gale]

You stacked?

[slate bone]

yes

I dont remember the length of the subs or how many i stacked though

it probably wasnt much more than an hour or so on both

[spice gale]

What software you used to stack?

[slate bone]

i think these were stacked in DSS

[spice gale]

Ok, very good pictures btw

[slate bone]

thanks

[shy snow]

tracked?

[spice gale]

.

[dusk crow]

Nice details M33 also there @lean magnet

[vague shard]

Southern hemisphere perks

[slate bone]

Yes

[shy snow]

Which tracker can i ask?

Crazy images btw

[slate bone]

Skywatcher EQM-35 Pro

[zealous scaffold]

what happened to the focus slider on deep sky cam? i cant find it anymore ;(

[lean magnet]

no m110 tho 😭

[lean magnet]

i just set it to infinity in settings and it works fine

[zealous scaffold]

they moved it to settings?

[lean magnet]

It's this button if you have it on manual

but i just leave mine on infinity in settings i dont use the focus slider

[coral cedar]

I set the focus to 0.66

[zealous scaffold]

how much int time on the first one if you know?

[coral cedar]

8x15s

2 minutes

[opaque tundra]

Some of the pics I took with the Samsung came out pink

How do I make em normal?

[sterile parrot]

White balence

[final pasture]

How do you stack with phone? Do you import your lights to the computer and stack it in program like DSS or do you stack on mobile? And how?

[potent gorge]

Dss

[opaque tundra]

What do I set it at and from where

[sterile parrot]

U can on iphone i think and on registax 6

Registax will be better if u do rgb align and rgb balence

[opaque tundra]

I took them on Samsung

All the raw images came out pink

[sterile parrot]

Oh

Import to pc or laptop

Open registax 6

Open images

Rgb align and balence

Done

[opaque tundra]

Dope thanks

[potent gorge]

are you processing planetary data?

@opaque tundra

[spice gale]

wait registax free right?

[potent gorge]

yes

[spice gale]

and for phone stacking registax better then dss?

[potent gorge]

i would say no

registax isnt for dso

[spice gale]

for planetary?

[potent gorge]

then yes

[spice gale]

oh well for planetary I use autostakkert

[potent gorge]

yea thats better

[spice gale]

good

I've wanted to learn how to stack dso for so long

got like 7 raw pics of m27 just to try

to learn

but I have to watch some more yt tutorials

[potent gorge]

get 30

[spice gale]

7 won't make a difference?

[potent gorge]

remember: the stacking process is the averaging of pixels. adding more data is better

[spice gale]

well I'll have 2 consecutive clear nights

also deepskycamwra is such a pita to use

but it's the only way to have raw

unless there are some other apps

[potent gorge]

if youre on ios, use astroshader

[spice gale]

android

[slate bone]

The Pleiades from 10 minutes ago through my dob.

[spice gale]

clean stars

[slate bone]

Surprisingly

Normally the phone camera introduces some kind of field warp or astigmatism but these were pinpoint.

[spice gale]

ik

[slate bone]

[shy snow]

Hello

Fellow pixel peeper here

You stars are ever so slightly trailed

Not noticeable without zoom

[smoky scaffold]

bro just had to ruin it

[opaque tundra]

No, just milky way

[nimble harness]

Quick lil sub

[timid wedge]

i re processed it

i think it a lil better

[spice gale]

it does

[sterile parrot]

Thats sick

[zealous scaffold]

anyone know of any good phone mount 3d models i can 3d print

[timid wedge]

before and after

i also flipped it

better comparison

[timid wedge]

thx

[sterile parrot]

Np bro

Yeah the new one defo brings out more contrast if thats the right word idk 😭

[timid wedge]

yh contrast and saturation

[sterile parrot]

Ye

[zealous scaffold]

core is less overblown, colors are less dull 👍

[exotic merlin]

andromeda galaxy (not proud of this)

[zealous scaffold]

better than mine, i stacked 400 subs together and got a smudge lfmao

fyi this is a single sub of it

[timid wedge]

heres my single 1 sec exposure of andromeda

[spice gale]

damn

as good as my 8 sec

urs even better

[zealous scaffold]

stacking my andromeda again lets see how it turns out lol

[spice gale]

ok

[zealous scaffold]

i got this this time

[gusty zodiac]

r e d

[spice gale]

hmm

[zealous scaffold]

red

[spice gale]

red

[zealous scaffold]

i dont know why its so red but its red

infact there is apparently no green or blue values whatsoever

it is only red

[spice gale]

well, ig the data can go to trash, more storage

[timid wedge]

and a lil more defenitiion

[timid wedge]

u use iphone?

[zealous edge]

Huh, I'd say there isn't a more appropriate time to share my most recent capture of Andromeda! Considering everyone's posting their andromeda pics atm, I'll share mine too

[zealous scaffold]

dont forget to tell int time its very important to me

[zealous edge]

This is my most recent capture of M31, taken using my iPhone 12, shot through my Orion StarBlast 114mm dob, imaged and stacked via AstroShader.

Integration time is nearly 12 minutes, at 32,000 ISO.

unfortunately M110 got cut off the final image, hope to do a wider field eventually.

M32 just made it in frame, though.

[zealous scaffold]

only 12 minutes and you got the spirals to show? what bortle??

[zealous edge]

Ok so, I live in a Bortle 8.

However.

The night I took this image was by far one of the clearest, stillest, and darkest nights I have ever experienced where I live, genuinely I could've sworn I could see the arm of the MilkyWay with just the naked eye. I had never seen anything like it.

Idk what happened in my area for the night sky to be as clear and beautiful as it was that night, but there was just so much more visible, it had to be equivalent to a Bortle 5 ~ 6.

Usually, the light pollution is bad enough that you only really see the couple dozen brightest stars with just the naked eye.

That other night, there were thousands.

[zealous scaffold]

maybe someone drove into a power line or something and caused a power outage in the direction of andromeda which resulted in less light pollution

literally only plausible explanation i can come up with lol

[zealous edge]

That could definitely be it, my school recently suffered a huge power outage, enough that they had to do an online day. Idk if they leave the outside floodlights on at night when nobody's there, but if they do, and those were off because there was no power, that might've been it.

[zealous scaffold]

i just did 40 mins of andromeda data in a b6 (atleast thats what light pollution map says) and its stacking now, so hopefully it'll actually show something

[zealous scaffold]

ah okay nice

[zealous edge]

I would sure think so, considering I got as much as I did in a probably worse bortle with less integration time

[zealous scaffold]

its also the first thing ive shot in like 6 months and it was in the direction of dowtown so there was hella light pollution, but we'll see

[zealous edge]

Ah ok

[zealous scaffold]

i aligned with like 8 stars nearby andromeda so it'd track the best i could possibly get it to

but it still moved around a bit

[zealous edge]

well, good luck with the imaging and eventual processing!

[zealous scaffold]

i have no clue how to process ive always got Prizmo to do my processing lol

[zealous edge]

Oh lol

[zealous scaffold]

mainly because they own some really expensive processing programs that i cant get my hands on

[serene jewel]

iPhone or Samsung?

[zealous scaffold]

who we asking here

[timid wedge]

no walking noise stacking on astroshader? how

[zealous scaffold]

my data is bad

[timid wedge]

yes

[zealous scaffold]

im blaming there being no stars on doing 1000 ISO

because i forgot to change it as i was originally shooting ngc40

[timid wedge]

just change to max iso

[zealous scaffold]

should i try a reshoot on andromeda tn or should i go with what i was planning to shoot tonight which is dumbbell neb

[timid wedge]

re shoot

[zealous scaffold]

yes sir!

hopefully my mount doesnt die because i dont have any spare batteries

my goal this year is to finally get a good galaxy image

because i feel like with how my images come out i could get a really good one

[timid wedge]

no walking noise stacking on astroshader? how

[zealous scaffold]

also reason my data is normally good is because i normally get about 30 gigs of data in 40 minutes

[zealous edge]

So the original raw file extracted from AstroShader had some noise to it, although I wouldn't really call it walking noise, maybe a tiny just barely noticeable amount of it.

The processing I did afterwards did get rid a lot of the noise though.

[timid wedge]

ooh ok

[lean magnet]

reprocess

b6-7 40x8s i think

[spice gale]

nu

ssmsung

[spice gale]

crazy

[timid wedge]

turned out well

[shy snow]

Thats sounds like it turned into more like a bortle 3-4

I live in a 6.5 and your description is nowhere close to what i see

[lean magnet]

yeah, thousands of stars??

seeing the arm of the milkyway?

that is not a bortle 5-6

[zealous edge]

Ok well, perhaps not thousands. But far more than I could usually see, either way.

[lean magnet]

still

seeing the arm of the milkyway

ive been to bortle 5 never seen it

[spice gale]

then it wasn't b5

I was in b5 and was visible

in b6 is max

[lean magnet]

few months ago i thought I was in b5

now on my images i saw b6-7 but it's probably b7+

[elder birch]

…I might be wrong here but have you tried playing with your focus. I’m thinking this as Andromeda is visible as a blur and the background glow of the sky is bright - so you would definitely expect to see stars in the FOV, whatever your ISO was

[zealous scaffold]

last nights data wasnt as bad, although it wont stack because its not detecting stars unless i put the star threshold up to like 1000

[spice gale]

better then the last time

what bortle are you in btw

[zealous scaffold]

b6 according to light pollution map but its prob more like b7 because thats data from 2015

[zealous scaffold]

cant even stack because it only detects 2-9 stars in each sub

[elder birch]

Another Milky Way shot dragged into mediocrity by walking noise…
iPhone15, 5s x250, ISO 4000

[nimble harness]

Yeah there aren't a lot of stars around andromeda

[zealous scaffold]

sadge, ill be shooting lagoon neb later tn and hopefully bodes galaxy by next week

[nimble harness]

I was able to get some really good stacks with lagoon since there are so many stars

It's def a good target for untracked

[zealous scaffold]

ill be doing it tracked, but yeah i bet with all the stars stacking is really easy even shooting untracked

if i do andromeda again im gonna get a reducer so i can hopefully get more stars in the image

[gloomy kiln]

Mine looks similar just with noise

[zealous edge]

This is the first time I've been able to capture real diffraction spikes on a star, this was taken last Thursday when the night was unprecedentedly clear and dark.

Prior to this I had never seen real diffraction spikes on a star just looking at I through the eyepiece, and they certainly look even more impressive after about a minute of exposure, as is seen in this image.

Star shown is Vega, btw.

[zealous scaffold]

lagoon neb stacked finished with flats added finally, will update on how good the processing is lol

[somber lantern]

I experienced this when I first saw sirius, I've only ever seen them on sirius, alpha centauri and canopus since mine are pretty dim because my scope's spider only has one thingy (this also makes it so it's only two spikes instead of 3 or 4)

[zealous edge]

Oh nice, it's cool seeing the different patterns that different spider designs make

[somber lantern]

I swear I had a pic of Sirius can't find it

[somber lantern]

This is alpha cen

[zealous edge]

Back when I used my 56mm monocular to do AP, it would produce two pointed diffraction spikes, which is interesting considering it doesn't have a secondary mirror spider at all

since it's technically a refractor

[somber lantern]

I think it happens when a lens isn't properly cleaned like to the sides instead of in circles

[zealous edge]

Ah. That would definitely explain it then, I always wiped the lens off in circles lmao

guess that wasn't a good idea then

[formal notch]

Yes they do. The spikes look very very thin but bright. Somewhat like this but thinner and tons zoomed out (this images was taken thru phone)

Wait this is more like how I see

[shy snow]

Found this on google

[zealous edge]

It is interesting, how the three legged spider produces six pointed diffraction spikes, rather than three pointed

[lean magnet]

Its the same way the one arm spider makes two spikes, just add that 2 more times

[shy snow]

Each leg of the spider produces a diffraction line perpendicular to it

[simple crow]

perpendicular?

so like that? lol

[shy snow]

the yellow lines on the spider represent the diffraction lines (scattered light)

same for the 3 legged

[iron bear]

Mine has 3 legs. I think it’s the most beautiful spike type

[opaque tundra]

Now thats a true twinkle star none of that crappy small round circles we see

[sterile parrot]

I got 4

[slate bone]

[raven tiger]

Does anyone have any tips for deep space phone astrophotography? I can take pictures of planets easily, but my deep space pictures show no nebulosity in things like the Orion nebula.

[zealous scaffold]

are you taking subs or tryna do single image, also what equipment do u have

[somber lantern]

Mines the first

[zealous edge]

You have to take long exposure imagery to do things like nebulae. Image stacking is also highly recommended. So if you have an iPhone, there's an app called AstroShader that works very well for this. If you have a computer, you can use any free software like DeepSkyStacker to stack your photos.

Equatorial tracking mounts are not absolutely necessary, but they can greatly simplify the process and make it easier in the long run, especially if you don't plan on tending to your mount the whole night of imaging.

[iron bear]

You need more exposure time. Both for each sub and the total integration; Here I take 55-second subs and still stack more than 200 subs usually.

[timid wedge]

do u think ii should use atroshaders auto stack, get a 3 min stack of 500ms exposures, then nudge to the left take another 3min stack and then a lil more for like dithering? and finally stack all the stacks?

[exotic merlin]

what phone

[iron bear]

Xiaomi 12

• 114/900 newton with eq3

[sick rain]

How do you automate dithering when using your phone?

[iron bear]

I do manually... Only in deepskycamera pro will automate dithering

[iron bear]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDGnqxXtyHE

[grave ether]

My first proper atempt

Shot with samsung A54 and a phone mount. Bortle 5.

[tough nest]

Sorry, but I don't like the new pfp

Like, is that a mugshot😭

[grizzled lance]

Bortle 5-6 honor 90

[autumn prairie]

Vega and Epsilon Lyrae - Backyard Phoenix, AZ - S22 Ultra on a tripod

[sick rain]

Ok I'm gonna try figure it out somehow

[raven tiger]

Is there any way to take long exposure images without a tracking mount?

[grizzled lance]

Stack

[zealous edge]

Yes, actually. Basically, you just take shorter exposure images, like 0.5 ~ 1 second, five seconds if you're really pushing it and/or your magnification isn't enough for trailing to be extreme after a few seconds.

Take lots of shorter exposure images, the equivalent of or more than the integration time that you'd use with a tracking mount. Basically, if your setup doesn't have auto tracking, but you can manually track the object across the sky and are willing to monitor your setup for a while, instead of taking a single five minute exposure, take 300 one second exposures. It's the same amount of integration time, and once you stack all the images using something like DeepSkyStacker, you'll get roughly the same results as a tracked five minute exposure.

[ivory thunder]

literally just delphinus

[edgy talon]

Yeah

[elder birch]

Andromeda galaxy:
iPhone13 + SVBony guide scope + AZ GTi mount
Captured in AstroShader: 10s x 105, ISO 6000
Edits in AstroShader and iOS photos

[grizzled lance]

Ring nebula s23ultra skywatcher 150/750 bortle 6

[raven tiger]

What software did you use to edit that pic?

[fading bobcat]

Photoshop

[somber lantern]

Yummers (single frame)

[somber lantern]

Final image looking real good

[fleet bramble]

difference between a normal and 1 minute photo

[opaque tundra]

Nice what bortle are you

[fleet bramble]

5 or 6

[opaque tundra]

is there a way to use a phone with a SW Gti for Mw?

[edgy talon]

Yes you can definitely print a phone mount

[opaque tundra]

how would you set the mount up for it?

unfortunately i cant print a mount and dont have any access to a printer here

[edgy talon]

Never got to it before I gave my phone mount to my friend but I used to screw one part of it into my Newtonian’s tube rings (where you would attach a second dovetail bar) and then put my phone in there

The screw matched it perfectly

[raven tiger]

Best image I've been able to take of the moon. Heavily edited.

[sterile parrot]

Cold

[iron bear]

Just use a dovetail with a 1/4 screw to attach a ballhead... It's easy to adapt. I use it this way here

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805619604762.html

[opaque tundra]

Gotcha

[zealous edge]

Just realized I never shared the image I took of M57 some time ago.

about 5 ~ 6 minutes of integration time, iPhone 12, 114/500 Orion StarBlast dob. Diffraction spikes were added in post, individual exposures were 250ms I think.

[sterile parrot]

Cold

[grave ether]

Picture i took off the moon few days ago

This is tonights full moon, unfortunatly cant wake up for the eclipse tonight. But was able to capture this.

Kinda proccesed weird tho

[ivory thunder]

holy mooning

and this (epic Sagittarius)

[fading bobcat]

Samsung Note 20 5G

[vague shard]

Is there any fix for this type of noise ?

[slate bone]

dithering

that's kind of a pain to do manually though

[shy snow]

wtf is going on here?

[gaunt kiln]

Dither

[shy snow]

whats wrong with the mount

[gaunt kiln]

Nothing Dithering is what you have to do to stop walking noise

Every few frames you have to shift the position

[elder birch]

As others say dithering is the main fix.
Although this would be resolved in the app if you could shoot a dark frame to be incorporated into the live stacking

[shy snow]

Ik but why the mount left and right and lef and right and left and right

[gaunt kiln]

It’s dithering

[shy snow]

Does it really move that much?

[zealous scaffold]

It's a time lapse, moves way slower than it looks like it is

[shy snow]

Ik

But i thought it just changes the position ever so slightly

[vague shard]

Yeah, watched an tutorial and I think I'll try it next time

[exotic merlin]

how to i get pointy stars with my phone

[shy snow]

You mean sharp focus or diffraction spikes?

[exotic merlin]

difraction spikes

[zealous scaffold]

For diffraction spikes I like to scratch my lens aggressively in a star shape so it brings out the diffraction spikes more (don't do this it's a joke)

[vague shard]

Why do people prefer star spikes ? I've seen people artificially add them , what's the point lol

[nimble harness]

It looks cool

[lean magnet]

idk why you want that but since a phone lens is really small string should work

[nimble harness]

I usually take low grit sandpaper to my mirrors

[zealous scaffold]

I find exacto knives to be much more precise

[edgy talon]

Everyone has been looking for this

[ivory thunder]

aaaa

[zealous scaffold]

bbbb

Lunar eclipse btw ^^

[ivory thunder]

cccc

[zealous scaffold]

(I have an 8 min video I plan on stacking)

[zealous edge]

they look pretty, and add some character to the image if that's what you're trying to go for.

Most if not all space telescopes end up having naturally occurring diffraction spikes in their images too, so perhaps telescopes like Hubble, Chandra, and even James Webb may have popularized them.

[fervent whale]

kinda cheated, I used the eyepiece

[lean magnet]

wdym

[shy snow]

Are you using just a phone or a lense/telescope?

[exotic merlin]

Telescope 70/700

[exotic merlin]

for taking pictures with a phone what iso and exposure is reccomended for each frame?

5 sec and 6400 iso?

[royal fern]

Realme 8i+ celestron powershitter 76Az

[royal fern]

Depends upon target and environment

[sterile parrot]

My first EVER astrophoto with a celestron powershitter 76/700 and iphone 8

It was out of focus lol

[exotic merlin]

well my skies are honestly kinda bad

[sterile parrot]

My newest photo that i have on my phone i have newer on my laptop and better

That was a dslr tho

[royal fern]

What bortle level?

[royal fern]

🦫

Damn

[sterile parrot]

Its bad tbh

[royal fern]

U also have the same powershitter

[sterile parrot]

Nah

[royal fern]

Powershitter army

[sterile parrot]

I did in feb

[royal fern]

[sterile parrot]

I upgraded to a bird jones

Not rlly a upgrade tbh

[royal fern]

Nice

[sterile parrot]

But u know what i mean

[royal fern]

No

[sterile parrot]

Ye my first telescope

[royal fern]

Alr

[sterile parrot]

Powershitter 76

[royal fern]

Same

It's my first telescope

[sterile parrot]

Nice brk

I only kept mine for like a month or 2

Now i get these images in just 9 months

Very noisy

But still good

[royal fern]

Damnn

Bro that's sick

[sterile parrot]

Thabks

Thanks

[exotic merlin]

What is that

[royal fern]

Light pollution level

[exotic merlin]

Something like this

[royal fern]

Yes!
Scroll a bit more

Then you'll see the Bortle level

[exotic merlin]

Mine is class 5

[zealous scaffold]

Hey that's not bad

[royal fern]

That's pretty good

[somber lantern]

This image is wrong

‼️

[zealous edge]

powershitter is now my new favorite slang insult for the Celestron bird jones scopes

[royal fern]

Found it on google

[zealous scaffold]

this one uses stellarium's light pollution slider so its pretty close

i used to have a really good one but i cant find it

[shy snow]

Im using a 60/700, i used paper and copper wires to make a sort of lense-cap type thing

Going to school rn

Will send a picture when i come back

[shy snow]

For phone you can bump up the iso and you can use online calculators to find the exposure time

Depends of your scope's aperture and focal length

[exotic merlin]

What? I cant even see the app was kinda wrong?

So ig its 6 or 7

[exotic merlin]

Okay thiy one is correct

[shy snow]

that image shows really long exposures for b1 - b6 and just drops the exposure at b7,8, and 9

[exotic merlin]

ahh

[iron bear]

Despite the smoke from the wildfires, I think I'll be able to test the upgrades on the telescope. I hope the larger secondary mirror has solved the issue of missing spike on the edge of the eyepiece

[autumn prairie]

Digizooming with a r60s on the front of the s22 to shoot this again.

[grizzled marten]

Saturn with galaxy 23S in class 5 bortel scale, I decided to go for a raw image, raw unprocessed no exposer nor played with image quality and hand held this is the result
I'm proud of it since like I said this is as raw as it can get, u can see the sphere of Saturn, the rings are a kinda, there blurry

[sour turret]

Saturn 9-19-2024 McKinney TX

[autumn prairie]

Lightroom fun

[fleet bramble]

How far did you need to zoom in?

[tough nest]

Equipment

?

[nimble harness]

Saturn

[grave ether]

Bottom right one is edited

[runic socket]

When you have clouds but make the most of the lunar glare lol

If you look closely you can see a star 🤣🤣 I hate UK weather

[balmy raptor]

Just took this using my open window as a tripod 😂

[shy snow]

With the new eyepiece and cooled phone?

[shy snow]

@exotic merlin

It goes in front of the scope

[shy snow]

dont worry about the bendy wires

they get stretched and straight when put in front of the scope

i used some hard chartpaper for the main ring and copper wires for the wires

[shy snow]

heres heres a guide if you want other spike patterns

[grizzled marten]

90x

[exotic merlin]

Tysm!!

[shy snow]

most welcome ! : )

[gloomy kiln]

The Moon with my phone and the moon with my telescope + phone

[ivory thunder]

moon with phone and moon with binocs + phone (using the eclipse pics bc those are the only ones I've used both on)

[sour turret]

@tough nest Celestron Astro master 130 + LG Velvet 5G phone

[tough nest]

How long was the video? And also hand tracking?

[sour turret]

@tough nest single axis RA motor tracking and 7 minutes raw video taken from Motion cam app

[tough nest]

Wow

Crazy picture btw

[sour turret]

@tough nest I was stoked it came out that good too. 1/13 sec exposure time, iso 100. 3 mm focal length eyepeice (6 mm + 2 x barlow) = 217 x magnification. And I'm in bortle 5!

@tough nest 5498 raw dng, preprocessed in PIPP, 30% best frames stacked in AS!4, and post processed in Siril. I did a very small touch of sharpening in Darktable.

[tough nest]

So how many frames in total.

?

(were stacked)

[sour turret]

since PIPP duplicated frames when it produced the SER file, a total of 9621 frames, 30% of those were used, a total of 2886 frames stacked.

[tough nest]

Can you think of any reason why my motioncam app just doesn't work?

[tough nest]

It says like: "there was an error something something" whenever I try to hit record

[sour turret]

@tough nest have you set your app to store your videos to your internal storage?

@tough nest send screenshot

[tough nest]

Nvm

Suddenly started working😁

I've messed around with it for hours before what the heck!

[tough nest]

What phone adapter do you have?

[sour turret]

@tough nest Celestron brand phone adapter

[tough nest]

So do you just crop out the circle around the around the eyepiece?

[tough nest]

Or like that "vignette"

This is what I mean

Ew

Whyd it send like that

Likethis for example

You know what I mean

[sour turret]

@tough nest if you take long exposure, like for galaxies and nebulae, you'll want to crop out the circle, yes. When capturing planets you wont see the circle for two reasons 1) because the object is small and will be cropped out of the dark space later when processing and 2) because exposure time is a fraction of a second, eye peice dark space blends in with the darkness of space

[tough nest]

Oh makes sense, thank you so much tho

But after getting my new eyepiece, it's going to be raining for the whole week

[sour turret]

@tough nest ha ha yep. Clouds and wind make me grumpy when i want to gaze the stars 🤬🌫️🌬️

@tough nest also, I use DeepSkyCamera Free for galaxies and nebulae, which my setup is not optimized for. Need field flattener and or coma corrector since the Astro master 130 has spherical mirror 😦

[tough nest]

I think it's the same for the heritage 130p

Can't you just take flats?

That might sound stupid

I don't really know what flats, darks, etc do

[sour turret]

@tough nest next time I shoot orion nebulae I should use 20 mm eye piece and take multiple 3 second exposures, as recommended by a friend who had a similar set up

@tough nest as for flats dark and lights, your lights are your images. Your darks and flats are taken in very specific ways and are used as calibration frames. Darks for instance you take with camera in complete darkness (no light getting to the sensor). This is so you only capture the noise your camera produces when taking photos. Flats are taken only allowing light in the sensor such that the histogram is peaked in the middle. One way is to put a white shirt over the aperture of the scope and taking frames with the exact focus and camera setting you took when you captured your target, but do so early in the morning or late in the evening to get the historgram right. Others have used artificial light produced by a monitor, bulb, or ipad to get the right amount light. The purpose for doing this is to capture the out of focus artifacts in your image due to dirty optics and thermal noise produced by some cameras.

@tough nest another term for using calibrated frames is called NUC (nonuniformity correction) typically a term associated with midwave infrared cameras but can also be done with color cameras

[autumn prairie]

My r60s has a 30mm Kellner, should be fun this evening

[potent gorge]

why are you clowns pinging each other in your messages

[zealous scaffold]

@potent gorge ??

[potent gorge]

@zealous scaffold ??

[zealous scaffold]

@potent gorge hi, how are you?

[potent gorge]

@zealous scaffold I'm doing amazing wbu?

@zealous scaffold did I tell you my milkyway image came first place for my unis Astrophotography comp?

[zealous scaffold]

@potent gorge im doing good, other than the fact that my google pixel 9 pro fold was delayed by 2 days, so now i dont get it today but get it on monday instead ;(

@potent gorge you did not tell me thatt!! congrats!! im assuming "unis" is university?

[potent gorge]

@zealous scaffold yep! So I believe I've won a $1000 bintel gift card. Awaiting to receive it and if my omega nebula image won anything

[zealous scaffold]

@potent gorge what is bintel?

[potent gorge]

@zealous scaffold the binocular and telescope store in Sydney

[zealous scaffold]

@potent gorge oooh thats sweet, get me a ap modified dslr while your there!

@potent gorge anyways i gotta get back to playing surf, have a fantastic phenomenal supercalifragilisticexpialidocious day! :)

[potent gorge]

@zealous scaffold cya

[sour turret]

@autumn prairie im excited to see what you post 😁

[autumn prairie]

just did a test run and my phone attachment doesn't work with the eye piece. 🎉

Tried to shoot Arcturus to align everything for Vega in a bit, I'm west coast.

[tough nest]

I don't know if it's better to shoot Orion neb like that or with 25mm piece

Do you have an opinion?

[sour turret]

@tough nest I dont have a 25mm eye piece. I have a 6mm, 10mm, and 20mm and a 2x barlow. I could get a 25mm eye piece but i just havent yet. i'll make that judgement based on the results from the 20mm.

[grave ether]

Which one do yall think is better? The one with Color or the one more brownish

[tough nest]

Left looks way more natural

[grave ether]

Ye i thought so too

[tough nest]

👍 lmk when you get a chance to shoot it

[grave ether]

The color is accurate right?

[tough nest]

Something is a little off if you look at it really close but not rlly

[grave ether]

That sucks lol

[tough nest]

This maybe?

[grave ether]

Ye that looks better fr

These are unedited

[grave ether]

Looks amazing thanks!!

[spring viper]

I looked out the window a couple of hours ago, the stars were not shimmering with different colors, and the sky was in a small haze, it was decided to go to the planets. In general seeing was just amazing, the eye could clearly see the stripes and GRS, I looked at 200x magnification . The Moon was in the smallest details, it felt like in orbit. Mars was already possible to see, you could see the disk and some detail, but still small.
I took this photo with IPhone XS using AstroShader program, all processing was done only on the phone without using PC. Eyepiece projection through 6mm 66°, 2x omni + tube from another Barlow, SW 130PDS, SW Eq3-2 OnStep.

[solar nymph]

I like it

Good work

[zealous scaffold]

really really good Jupiter for phone

crop the frame so its centered though :)

[spring viper]

Thanks!

[somber lantern]

Probably the best Jupiter I've seen on a phone

[timid wedge]

nice which one u think has more detail

[gaunt kiln]

2

[sour turret]

@timid wedge the one to the right

[shy snow]

→

[tough nest]

Left has better detail but star trailing

[timid wedge]

yh

[ivory thunder]

i find it funny how all the saturn imgs for the next year or so will look like a circle with a line in the middle
idk y it's just funky

[distant epoch]

Yeah

Goofy planet

But cool planet

Probably my favorite planet

Is there any effective way to get rid of atmospheric distortion while using a phone? I'm assuming there is a filter, but I haven't really dabbled in filters yet, don't have the money

I don't mean a phone filter lol, I meant a telescope filter

[grizzled lance]

Uhhhhhhhh

You'd have to have good weather for thst

I live in the UK atmosphere is mid sometimes it's best to have low humidity and no to less cloud cover

Atmosphere is a natural thing and you'll have to check weather when is best for stargazing

[dark ridge]

Quick phone edit

[zealous scaffold]

New phone

[solar nymph]

Is that MaxVelocity I see?

[zealous scaffold]

yep, max velocity and im also in ryan hall's server

[zealous scaffold]

going to be testing the astrophotography mode when it gets dark out

[iron bear]

Sky full of smoke and with the moon. I could only manage a timelapse, and even that went somewhat wrong because the tripod was a bit loose and the framing shifted during it

Xiaomi 12, 25s iso 400
Contryside of São Paulo, Brazil. B3~ with moon

[zealous scaffold]

Astrophotography mode on the pixel 9 pro fold

[timid wedge]

Quattro bumper has processed it for me

And here’s mine

[gusty zodiac]

good thing I was able to get some semi-decent data last year #1020657687291252797 message

[dark ridge]

Ayy thats me

Congrats

[zealous scaffold]

Same phone?

Oh on the screen on discord hahah

Mb brain dumb

[dark ridge]

Lmao its alr

Nah not the same phone

[somber lantern]

j

[zealous scaffold]

k

[zealous scaffold]

ive never shot widefield of the sky, any recommendations??

[lean magnet]

cygnus

[shy snow]

orion

[zealous edge]

Orion Molecular Cloud Complex is a pretty easy and neat target

[zealous scaffold]

I aimed straight up and shot cygnus although my data was noisy so I am going to reshoot tonight

This is what I got, second image is just autostretch

[iron bear]

Let's try capturing a comet in São Paulo today 💀

It's very bright, so I think even from here, which is Bortle 9, I should be able to capture some details of its tail.

A photo a friend took with a 60mm Sharpstar and an S23. Too bad it's appearing at 5 a.m. with the sun rising. I'll have to try to capture it around 5 a.m. just before sunrise

[sterile parrot]

Thats still rlly cool

[somber lantern]

I might be able of getting it this weekend

But it won't be with a phone so no post here, don't wanna wake up my parents by moving the scope

[iron bear]

Go to Atacama 🗣️

[somber lantern]

💯

[shy snow]

clouds

[gusty zodiac]

aimed straight up and shot Ursa Minor?

dayum how north up do you live

[iron bear]

The comet was supposed to be here. The Goto is aligned and hit the right position, but since the sky is full of smoke, I won't be able to capture anything from here

Moon

[opaque tundra]

Do ppl take calibration frames for phone mw?

[iron bear]

I always take calibration frames. Currently, I don't take a new photo without Darks.

[iron bear]

It’s already dawn. I’ll try the comet again tomorrow. The telescope is well aligned, so I think I won’t even move it from the place.

[opaque tundra]

probably dont take flats tho right?

[somber lantern]

I'd take everything just in case

But they're probably not even necessary

[zealous scaffold]

Kansas

[shy snow]

thats airdroid right?

how did you get it so well in sync?

[iron bear]

Stellarium is connected to the mount's Wi-Fi, and AirDroid is just showing the screen of the phone that's attached to the telescope's eyepiece. If I move the telescope using the hand control, the position in Stellarium will change, and consequently, the framing on the phone will also change

Stellarium pulls the coordinates of where the telescope is from the mount systen when i do the GoTo align. From then on, it will always be synchronized (unless there's significant backlash in the mount)

[shy snow]

Pretty nice system you got there

I wanna do the same when i start earning moneys

[ivory thunder]

holy b7

I didn't know my phone alone can do this

m13 is there

andromeda here

[indigo shell]

I don't know what options I pressed in pro mode of my redmi note 12 mobile, this is my first astro photograph 😊

[spice gale]

never would have guessed u used a redmi note 12

[muted sedge]

Did you perform stacking or is this a single sub?

[indigo shell]

Single sub, I don't know how to do stacking and any staking software even though I have a laptop 🥲

[somber lantern]

Woah that's amazing why is it red tho

[iron bear]

Reprocessing the Carina. I was already thinking the processing I did in March was bad.

[crude egret]

Shot on iPhone 14 Pro

Bortle 2(Yosemite)

[zealous scaffold]

i boosted sat on the right one to try and make mw pop more

[somber lantern]

How about the highlights instead

[zealous scaffold]

i did star removal and star recomp then boosted highlights

[zealous scaffold]

on this img

[ivory thunder]

yummy Sagittarius

[vague shard]

Shot with realme narzo 50 pro

[tough nest]

You look like freakin' Michael Phelps😭

[somber cargo]

Has anyone tried airdroid?

[vague shard]

Lmao yeah, my upper part seems elongated

[shy snow]

Lucas uses it

I cant get it to mirror properly

The stream is kinda laggy with almost a 3 second delay

[shy snow]

@iron bear someone needs help

[sick kernel]

Toom this picture if the sun yesterday

Took

Not the best but i think its ok

[zealous scaffold]

did you use a sun filter

please tell me you used a sun filter

[sick kernel]

I did?

Of course i did im nor stupid lol

[zealous scaffold]

ah ok it just looked really bright for a filter so i wasnt sure lmfao

[sick kernel]

Yea my telescope isint collimated well so i cant focus it the best

[zealous scaffold]

did u turn down exposure it seems a little overexposed

[sick kernel]

I did not i forgot to 😦

:-(((

[zealous scaffold]

ahh that makes sense lol

only reason i didnt think there was a filter is because its over exposed

[sick kernel]

Yea

[zealous scaffold]

thats why i was a little worried lmfao

[shy snow]

Sunspots

[shy snow]

I didn't use a filter 😬

[sick kernel]

Ye 100%

[zealous scaffold]

damn dude that sucks i hope the suns ok

[sick kernel]

Idk why but my telescope erects everything so it looks upside down

lol

[shy snow]

I hope so

[somber lantern]

Every telescope does that

It's normal

[zealous scaffold]

every scope does

[shy snow]

I dont own a filter and i have several solar images

[sick kernel]

Well i had scopes that didint

[sick kernel]

How

[shy snow]

Sunrise and sunset

Its dimmer

[sick kernel]

Ye

I get it

[shy snow]

Thanks to my damn f/12 powerseeker

[sick kernel]

One thing

Why nobodey talk about snapseed

Yiu can littery stack images on phone

[shy snow]

Why get more apps when dss gets the job done

And you need to get on pc to process anyways

[zealous scaffold]

stacking on phone doesnt seem reliable and seems like it'd be extremely slow, i feel like its just better to stack on a laptop or pc

[sick kernel]

As i said my brother BROKE MY FREAKING PC

Good thing im getting a new pc in October

[somber lantern]

They were probably for normal viewing like a spotting scope, those are designed so it inverts the image so it looks normal, in astronomy it's not necessary and since it's cheaper they just don't include it

[sick kernel]

Ye

I gtg bye

[iron bear]

Carina Nebula

• Reprocessing

📋Data:
🔭 Toya 114/900, Eq3 Mod withOnStep. 18mm 65° UFF Eyepiece. No filters
📷 Phone, Xiaomi 12 (Imx 766). 136x55s iso 400: 2 hours of total integration
⚙ Munhoz, Brazil. B4~
@lucasgoncalves_js

Full res: https://www.astrobin.com/jcu4y8/

[gaunt kiln]

2023 a3

With my phone up to the eyepiece

[zealous scaffold]

nice!

[spice gale]

yo that is so good

can you tell me more about the setup you used?

[zealous scaffold]

#1160693147521777715 they've put everything in there that their using

[spice gale]

oh ok

[gaunt kiln]

That isn’t with my phone tho

[spice gale]

ooh

[zealous scaffold]

ah thats mb i didnt know that lol

[gaunt kiln]

Those ones in #1160693147521777715 was it my dslr

[spice gale]

that was the reason I asked

I wanted to know ab this image in particular

cuz I am a dedicated phone ap

[gaunt kiln]

This photo was just a 8” dobsonion and me holding my iPhone 13 up to the eyepiece

[zealous scaffold]

man if i didnt have school in the morning i would def shoot it

[spice gale]

wow is it really that bright?

compared to the last comet

[zealous scaffold]

tmr morning the mag here is -0.01

[spice gale]

same

[gaunt kiln]

Check #1160693147521777715

That will show you how bright

[spice gale]

daaayum

[zealous edge]

How does the sun get dimmer at sunrise/sunset? It's the same amount of light, like when the sun is obscured by a partial eclipse it'll still damage your eyes to look at it

I feel like that's a risky thing to do, what you're doing

[zealous scaffold]

i know if its extremely foggy or hazey you can shoot it through the fog and haze without solar filter because its not as bright, but still extremely risky and i would only do it with phone

[timid wedge]

BROTHER WHAT

[gloomy kiln]

That is insane

[exotic merlin]

Bro flew out in space and took a picture directly infront of the nebula

[iron bear]

Some single subs from the night I made this Carina that I sent above
1x20s ISO 400-800

Reflection of the Milky Way in the 18" mirror. I just mirrored the photo

[somber cargo]

Hey you use airdroid ?

Does it work well for you ?

[iron bear]

Yes, I use it to control my phone remotely when it's on the telescope

[iron bear]

.

[somber cargo]

Awesome

Cuase I was debating between getting a regular telescope vs the seestar

Do u use a dob?

[iron bear]

Mine is a 114/900 equatorial with onstep

[somber cargo]

Yikes that's too big for me

Nice tho

[shy snow]

The light has to travel through more atmosphere and so less photons actually make it through

You know how people watch sunsets? Thats cause its dimmer

And i would never point my scope at it if i cant look at the sun without squinting my eyes

[nimble harness]

10000% get an 8" dobsonian. You'll be able to clearly see saturns rings and Jupiter's gas clouds

And Many other things

[zealous scaffold]

saturns rings not so much because of the tilt but yeah you'll technically be able to see them really well when they are actually visible from the top again

[nimble harness]

Yeah that's true. An 8" dob would still be an excellent choice tho

[zealous scaffold]

big warning: once you get a scope your gonna be wanting to get more stuff to add onto it, it will set you back thousands of dollars lol

but its worth it

i recommend starting with something cheap and small (not a hobby killer) and if you really like it you should start investing in stuff thats better, because theres some people that enter ap as a hobby and end up buying like a $2000 scope, not enjoying it, then being down $2000 lol

which is quite rare tbh but its a lot of problem solving and its really fun

[wild flame]

emphasis on the "not a hobby killer" part
I bought a $250 telescope off amazon and its caused me nothing but trouble from a wobby tripod to poor optics and a plastic focuser

get a solid and well rated dob or eq mounted newtonian from a reputable brand like Orion (fly high🕊️ ) and Celestron

[zealous edge]

But you still need to squint your eyes to look at a sunset or sunrise though? Like it's still too bright to look at it for extended periods of time without getting those green/purple after images in your vision

[nimble harness]

Assuming it was an orion observer?

[shy snow]

Idk man if it works, it works

[vapid kestrel]

With Redmi 10

[wooden goblet]

Bortle 1 15 sec exposure

[wild flame]

Nah it was some Chinese resale brand 114/500

From what im seeing even worse quality from the orion observer since it had an alt/az mount

and they replaced what very few metal parts there were with more cheap plastic

[opaque tundra]

My best phone Milkyway

Samsung ftw

[lean magnet]

Insane

I wish that much of the mw core was visible for me 😭

[iron bear]

What's your latitude? +70? 💀

[lean magnet]

this is the most I get

wait is it possible to combine these into one image?

the images won't send

[iron bear]

Maybe Astropixelprocessor can align then

[muted sedge]

Deneb

My first time trying an EQ platform!
Specs:

• Bresser f/6 8" Dob
• 30mm eyepiece

Stacked 42x6-second exposures

Stacked in

[cobalt brook]

Has anyone done astrophotography with the s24 ultra? Anyone able to share some pictures?

[zealous scaffold]

I'm sure it's very capable, pretty sure it has a better camera than my phone

[cobalt brook]

Is this that comet thing? Sorry don't remember the name.... Is it still visible?

[opaque tundra]

Benefits of lat 25-26

[opaque tundra]

If my s20Fe can produce nice results I’m sure that ultra is a lot better

You just need to find the right settings

[lean magnet]

yea but what's your summer temps😨

[opaque tundra]

Haha I was waiting for that

[lean magnet]

i suffer past 20c

[opaque tundra]

30c - 45c

Lowest is the coolest it gets at night and hottest is peak daytime temp

[lean magnet]

The hottest temp I've ever gotten is prob 35c

[opaque tundra]

It was 25-28c at night when I took those pics from the dessert (it’s considered good weather for summer)

[opaque tundra]

Oh you’d love it here then

[lean magnet]

im sure I would

🔥👍

[opaque tundra]

The desert goes through a complete personality change in winter tho

It’s 5c at night and under 20c at day

[lean magnet]

that's not bad

5c is comfortable

[opaque tundra]

That’s cold af for us lol

[opaque tundra]

Humidity is super low so it hits harder

But the seeing is amazing during winter there

[lean magnet]

I suddenly want to go to your desert

I have never gotten excellent seeing once and my normal seeing is below average-poor

[opaque tundra]

Are you from the states?

[timid wedge]

ik i didnt dither and bla bla bla but damn this is nice for phone and 2 months of experience on milky way pics

[spice gale]

very nice

[timid wedge]

thx

[spice gale]

what phone?

[timid wedge]

iphone 14pro

[spice gale]

and where u stacked?

[timid wedge]

astroshader

[spice gale]

oh ofc, why android doesn't have astroshader

how many frames?

[timid wedge]

15x30sec exposurres

[spice gale]

oh nice

[timid wedge]

in bortle 2

[spice gale]

very nice image overall, got some sweet nebula in there but kinda noisy

[spice gale]

[timid wedge]

shot in summer when i went to crete

[spice gale]

nice place

[timid wedge]

first time ever geetting so far away from the athens glow

[gusty zodiac]

this hits close to home

I remember going to like a B4/3 place and I wasn't able to photograph anything

it was around 37-38C at night like wtf

[sick kernel]

Just took my first Jupiter pics
(Not the best but im proud)
Toom this in bortle 4

Took it with my skywatcher 76/900 Eq2

[sick kernel]

This is the final stacked image

• a bit edited

[nimble harness]

Dude awesome work

This is actually pretty decent for your first try

[indigo shell]

I managed to stack my first astro photograph using the deep sky stacker software, how do I share it with someone for post processing?

[wild flame]

you usually just send the master file that it created

you could share it here, i'll see if I can process it for you

[indigo shell]

Yes but it is in fits or tiff type file and I can't see it in my file manager unless I open it using dee sky stacker

[wild flame]

is it set to show all files?

do you know where it sent the fie

file*

[indigo shell]

It is in the light folder but I am live under the rock I don't know much about my laptop

[wild flame]

just send the tiff file here

[indigo shell]

Here

[indigo shell]

Did you got that?

[wild flame]

it's pretty out of focus but i'll see what I can do

how long was the exposure

[indigo shell]

30 pictures of 10 seconds exposure or 5 minutes and its my first time of phone astro photograph

I have binoculars but I don't have a phone adapter and stand

[wild flame]

try to find a more open area and get that focus dialed in next time

it's more in focus with the buildings than the sky

[indigo shell]

Yes I will do that next time but I had set manual focus to maximum

[wild flame]

yea you usually wanna set it below that max

try to use digital zoom while you're manually focusing to get the focus as good as you can then you zoom back out

[indigo shell]

I didn't understand much but I will try to get it in focus from next time

@wild flame

[wild flame]

👍 no problem

darker skies will definitely help

[timid wedge]

jjust enough resolution to camture the baby solar system

[indigo shell]

That small star near two big stars?

[sick kernel]

:-))

[silk gust]

just between the two large bright stars is a small (albeit blurred) dot. This dot is a proplyd, or if you want the whole name, an ionised proto-planetary disk. This isn’t necessary a solar system, rather it’s a star surrounded by a large disk of gas and dust.
Though, over time it’s theorised that the gas and debris is able to collect into regions through gravitational pulls from more dense areas and form bodies such as planets.

There’s actually a couple in Orion, which can be resolved with a decent telescope and proper imaging, but because of how small they are you often need very good seeing and PA to actually resolve them in nicer detail

[mossy verge]

No idea if this helps but this was a 10 second 800 iso shot lying on my car roof in a bortle 3 area

[indigo shell]

Let me know when you finish processing.

[vapid rock]

How's this?

[vapid rock]

[indigo shell]

That's really cool, but still little bit blurry

[vapid rock]

How to fix it

?

Well, it underwent a lot of change. The actual pic was straight up mid

[wind spoke]

u toaSTED it a bit

[vapid rock]

Ig yeah

[wild flame]

to be honest, there isnt much I can process out of this

other than a bit of a change in contrast, it would look the same

theres simply too little data to form anything out of this, especially with the blurry focus and lack of interesting tarrgets in that portion of the sky

If you really want a target that doesnt require too much data to look interesting, shoot the constellation of Orion or if you have a 3x or greater camera on your phone, go for the Andromeda galaxy

[wild flame]

it also doesnt help that you were shooting between a few lit up buildings

[tough nest]

Why did you just randomly post a pic of the moon here?

[tough nest]

Oh!

Sorry

Thought this was a thread lol

[grizzled marten]

Reallyike the depth in the black spots, and also the craters are pretty good for a phone

[coral cedar]

Full moon hdr

[wind spoke]

turn down iso a bit.. lotta noise

increase contrast

[timid wedge]

exactly

[silk gust]

Still really cool regardless : ) I actually took photos of them with my dslr and newt the other day, could resolve 2 nicely

[indigo shell]

I am fine with that because it's my first time

[wild flame]

so yea, just brighten the image you have and that'll be all you can do

[indigo shell]

I don't have any software that's the problem.

[wild flame]

I mean you kinda need to get at least basic editing and stacking software to get any good images

GIMP and Siril are both good free editing software you can get started with

[formal notch]

@wild flame beacuse of you, organic chemistry is troubling me : (

should i rename to aromatic hydrocarbon?

[indigo shell]

I have deeps sky stacker software and siril software downloaded in my laptop. Can I edit stacked images in Siril software like you said?

[potent gorge]

yes

[indigo shell]

Do I need to stack images in Siril software first or I will be able edit already stacked images?

[potent gorge]

stack in siril first and process it there

[indigo shell]

this is my first ever processed astro photograph. 😃

I don't know how to send it in photo format

[gloomy kiln]

How does someone make that shiny thing around the moon

[wild flame]

Convert a copy of it to a PNG and resend it

[wild flame]

^

[lean magnet]

I just put it into gimp and export as png

[indigo shell]

I don't have gimp, I have deep sky stacker and Siril only

[lean magnet]

You should get gimp

very useful

[indigo shell]

How? Do I just put gimp free download? Because I am broke and I am student so I don't have money

[potent gorge]

yes

imo - siril is all you pretty much need

[indigo shell]

You think Siril, gimp and deep sky stacker are the trio for astrophotography?

[lean magnet]

Personally I use siril, graxpert, deepskydetail, gimp, and starnet

All free btw

[indigo shell]

For stacking I think deep sky stacker is simple and fast, and siril is best for post processing

[lean magnet]

I use siril for my stacking

It does what I need fine and I've heard bad things about dss

[indigo shell]

My monkey brain can't use Siril properly for stacking

[potent gorge]

all praise siril

[lean magnet]

it's just a 1 button script

[indigo shell]

And I WAS TRYING TO DO STACKING MANUALLY WITHOUT LOOKING AT TUTORIALS!!!

[lean magnet]

Oh and astrosurface for planetary stacking and processing and registax for planet sharpening

[indigo shell]

[lean magnet]

these for dsos tho

starnet not always needed but the rest I use on every image

Starnet is just to stop your stars from overpowering your image, if your stars are fine no need to use it

[potent gorge]

at least read the siril documentation

[potent gorge]

ideally, starnet is something you should be using all the time since its far better to work on a starless image and then later recombine your stars

you get a ton more control

[lean magnet]

On all My phone widefields I absolutely need starnet but on my dso images they seem fine without it

[potent gorge]

theres no criteria for what needs starnet and what doesnt.