Phone Astrophotography

[floral token]

Saw many times

It's fine, humans don't have objective thinking

[wild flame]

its an exact correlation so yes, 1 light year is a literal measurement

fair

[floral token]

Oh okay I thought I was wrong

If U know any good used telescope or mount, tag me 😺

I might not go with used myself but will go if someone experienced person says

[wild flame]

i'm not to familiar with used so I cant really help much there

[floral token]

Oh okay np

[wild flame]

usually a lot of used scopes are hobby killers so I wouldn't go out looking unless you know exactly what you're looking for

[floral token]

Yeah I also don't feel to use my money for crap on this hobby

I am also confused with the price of mount and it's accessories

[wild flame]

I made that mistake early on, now I have a crap telescope collecting dust in my room

[floral token]

Some have only mount, other with package and ahhhh I am soo confused

[wild flame]

yea you're gonna have to look closely at what they ship

thats why I just shopped on amazon for my first tracker

[floral token]

Can U help me know what with the mount and it's accessories

Like what mount contains

I know just about mount that tracks

Also about the weight that helps to keep out telescope to be stable

[bronze jackal]

Like aliphatic, s22 ultra 10x lens

[coral cedar]

hey i want to ask something so i got 600 hundred + raw images and i wanted to stack them at siril

but i got no space left, so can i stack them separately?

[floral token]

So U take pics from default 1x zoom and then after stacking, U cut it?

[coral cedar]

200 image into 1 fit files etc

[floral token]

Or did U zoom in ?

[bronze jackal]

No it's 10x zoom

[floral token]

Ohh

[bronze jackal]

Because the s22 ultra has a 10x optical zoom lens

[floral token]

That's why it's blurry

[floral token]

Nice

Try 5 x or lower, I think that would be better than 10x

Still it's a phenomenal photo 🫡

[bronze jackal]

I imagine i could improve it a lot if I had a star tracker aswell

Unfortunately I'm limited to 4s exposures

[floral token]

Don't regret, you are doing good,U can always expand your budget in future

[ivory thunder]

a3 with a71

[floral token]

Bro what are sending ?

Can't see nothing than one comet

[lofty trench]

This is a picture I took of Saturn with my phone using lucky imaging, how can I improve it?

[pastel nexus]

More data,and make sure you're recording in raw format. There's apps that allow you to do that

I think one is called pro video

[lofty trench]

On iPhone ?

[wild flame]

it's a set 10x telephoto

that's the native resolution for that camera

it might be blurry due to the regular camera app having super invasive post processing

the 10x can actually get some sharp images if you know how to use it well

I just wished they upgraded the sensor instead of switching to a 5x on the S24 ultra

I also think that image is stretched a crazy amount to reveal more data

[floral token]

What's the settings and equipment?

It's insane

[wild flame]

oh hey you can see a bit of M33 too

[lean magnet]

s20+ and tripod

forgot settings

[floral token]

It is awesome 🥸

[modest falcon]

how did you stack it?

[sour turret]

@lofty trench Motioncam app

[lofty trench]

With autostakkert

[modest falcon]

try Astrosurface. it looks like there are some stacking artifacts

[lofty trench]

Ok thx

[ivory thunder]

yesterday vs today

[grizzled lance]

Yeah it gets dim day by day

[sour turret]

Venus, McKinney TX, 10-20-2024

[coral cedar]

2 hours subs of milky way

idk why the nebula wont pop

i mean the color of the nebula

[atomic rampart]

Got a nice image of the comet from bortle 9 10s 70mm focal lenght plus some cropp and untracked 19.5m intergration (dont mind the color noise all samsung phones suffer from it)

For comparison single sub

[bronze jackal]

Yes, I stretched quite a bit. I shoot raw with pro mode, but the 4s subs are so noisy they literally fail to stack in sequator. So I denoise them all with lightroom then stack the jpgs because that's the only way that seems to work. So that's probably why it's blurry

[bronze jackal]

^

[somber lantern]

Wdym

It looks like it did

Do you mean like the nebula inside the mw like lagoon not being pink?

[coral cedar]

Yeahh sorta

[brisk glen]

What equipment??

[lean magnet]

#1020657687291252797 message

phone and tripod

from bortle 7

[brisk glen]

Is it stacked???

[lean magnet]

Yea

I wish I could get that not stacked😭

[brisk glen]

This is my best attempt on andromeda 30 seconds

On iPhone 16 pro

[brisk glen]

How many pictures did you take??? I think I’ll go out tonight and try again

[lean magnet]

That's insane

For only 30s

Mine was like 90x8s

[brisk glen]

Thank you! Also got this

1x 30s

[lean magnet]

Bro what bortle

Insane for only 30a

40s

30s I can't type rahh

[brisk glen]

Bortle 3-4 ish 😊

Perks of living in the middle off the forest with the nearest city being like 30 km away

[lean magnet]

Very lucky

[sullen parrot]

Redmi's are one of the best and underrated phones in the market

[floral token]

Can anyone help me to stack this photos?

30 of them

This are total 30 photos 800 iso 4.50ish zoom and 10 second exposure

If U can guide me, that would be more helpful

[potent gorge]

just give them to deepskystacker

[floral token]

Ol

[fervent eagle]

Put them in deep sky stacker we cant stack png for u

Wait thats phone photography

Nvm

[floral token]

I did

The stacking In dss and got a kind of white photo, I made it worse but I was following the astrobackyard tutorial

👽💀

[fervent eagle]

Can u send a pic ?

[lean magnet]

Dss didn't work for me when I first tried it so I did siril and it worked

If you wanna try siril tho you need to add the script that only uses lights

[lean magnet]

https://free-astro.org/index.php?title=Siril:scripts

Osc preprocessing without dbf

Then do this but don't delete the two lines

Add the path of the preprocessing script that was just downloaded instead as a 3rd ljne

[floral token]

I don't know how

[dusky crane]

B7 OnePlus Nord 3

[ivory thunder]

andromeda

[lean magnet]

I explained how below that message

[floral token]

Most of the things U said didn't make sense please try to explain in more detail🥲

[lean magnet]

Instead of deleting the two lines like the image says just put the path of the script on another line

So you keep the other scripts

[potent gorge]

Program files -> Siril -> scripts

drop this off there

manually removing the lines is stupid. just download the script

[lean magnet]

you still need to add it to the scripts area tho

[potent gorge]

yea i gave the directory

[floral token]

Ayy thanks

[fading bobcat]

My best attempt for the Comet on my Samsung Galaxy note 20

I'm not really good at post-processing so I may have messed something up somewhere

[coral cedar]

some carina nebula

need more integreation time

[grizzled lance]

what bortle and phone?

and telescope

[coral cedar]

Bortle 7, oppo reno 3
Telescope celestron powerseeker 80 EQ
With svbony 40mm 48 degree plossl eyepiece
I need kinda wide eyepiece, so more subs time.

[grizzled lance]

Damnn

I'm surprised b7 phone ap came out like thst

[sick kernel]

Every 5 yo with a telescope be like

Helo gajs i buy my telescope first todaj :))) it wery ekspenciv

And i bot best cemra in maj budget

And the best eyepic so i can magnifaj to 9000 time

I had a kid like this in my neighborhood

He was so funny lol

[lean magnet]

smart digital telescope?

smart scopes changed a lot dang

[sick kernel]

Hahaha lol

True

[lean magnet]

its prob plasitc lens too

[sick kernel]

Yea

It says multi coated lol

[lean magnet]

coated multiple times in dust

[sick kernel]

Hahah

Idk why but i wanna buy the camera just too see how bad it is

[lean magnet]

does it even say anything about it

or just camera

[sick kernel]

Let me check

[lean magnet]

also why does it have a lens lol

digital eyepiece

WHY DOES IT HAVE 5 STAR REVIEWS

[sick kernel]

Idk

[sick kernel]

It just says like
BEST CAMERA ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY FOR PROFESSIONAL USE

Yea it also says dropship lol

I think you can see dropship in the pic

[lean magnet]

try and find a cheaper one then

original one

[lean magnet]

for professional use

i wanna see someone use it with a planewave scope

[sick kernel]

Weri profesinal

Me too

Maybe there is a vid on YT lol

Let me check

[lean magnet]

itd be interesting to see what would happen if you paired a planewave with a camthat costs like 20000x less

[sick kernel]

https://youtu.be/Zi9ildE44I4?si=PuL1saEcB2bWFyxv

Bro why is it ok for the price

like???

I mean for 10 bucks

[lean magnet]

why do they advertise it as 10x

is it meant for a specific telescope?

does it make the fov 10x smaller than if it was just the sensor?

[sick kernel]

Idk

Maybe they meant 10mm

I really wanna buy it just to see how bad it rly is

[pastel nexus]

It's because of the small sensor that it cropped the target by 10x im guessing

[lean magnet]

but it has a lens

[sick kernel]

They arent smart enough to put it for something like that

[sick kernel]

“Lens”

[sick kernel]

Its maybe just see trought plastic

[lean magnet]

fr whyts it actually decent

[sick kernel]

Its a bit dirty but that can be fixed with a wipe lol

Whats this supposed to be

[lean magnet]

make sure you can send it back

[lean magnet]

absolutely no idea lmao

[sick kernel]

The trilangium galaxy lol

Also why does the camera look like its made out of cardboard

[lean magnet]

it prob is

[sick kernel]

ISO 620
30 exposures of 10 seconds
(I made it in astroshader

Bortle 4

[coral cedar]

Orion nebula 11 minutes
Caldwell 85 3 minutes

[bronze jackal]

A single 8s exposure of M37 with considerable noise reduction applied because the clouds rolled in within 30s of getting it in frame 😭

If you couldn't tell, it's that blurry blob

[zealous edge]

Caldwell 85 isn't photographed very often, neat

not fantastic looking, sure. But it's cool to see lesser-shot targets here in any case.

nice composition with your Orion shot, though

[coral cedar]

Yeahhh, my balcony only view south to west, so i had to pick at least 1 to photograph, and i chose caldwell 85, wanted to experiment, but suprisingly well, id call it decent result

[coral cedar]

Haha its only rotated, actually it has alot of noise, had to brutally denoise it

Since i dont take calibration frame.

[zealous edge]

Ah well, that's ok! I can tell it's denoised a lot, but we all gotta start somewhere I suppose.

What setup did you use to take those, if I may ask?

[lean magnet]

phone, bortle 7 and i think around 15 mins int time

[coral cedar]

Oh yeah, i use cheap telescope, i got 2 now, orion st80
400mm telescope with aperture 80mm, with plossl eyepiece vixen 32mm 52 degree.
Phone:
Oppo reno 3

[opaque tundra]

what phone

[lean magnet]

s20+

[lofty trench]

what would be some good beginner deep sky objects that I can stack and are relatively easy to capture?

[lean magnet]

milkyway

andromeda

orion

[lofty trench]

I already tried andromeda and it came out a little weird

Not that proud of it

[lean magnet]

phone camera doesn't really have enough focal lenfth

[lofty trench]

I attached it to a telescope with adapter

And then used Siri’s to stack

Siril

[lean magnet]

Oh

Then idk

[brisk glen]

Andromeda galaxy in the top right corner and Triangulum Galaxy in the bottom left corner, 30s exposure with iPhone 16 pro in b3-4

[dusk crow]

Hi @brisk glen do you know there is a App called AstroShader? You can use this app for even longer exposure. The app also do multiple images and Stack the images by it self.

I also capture the andromeda galaxy and I use the app for it. It was a total exposure of 7min

I use my IPhone 12 Pro Max 2,5 telephoto Zoom in B6 skys

[craggy phoenix]

Taken ~3y ago with a Oneplus 8Pro with Gcam (~5min expo?) and edited in Snapseed

[brisk glen]

Ooo I’ll try that!

[brisk glen]

Bruh god dang it I really took 30 30s exposures before, seems to me I’ll have to go out again lol

[bronze jackal]

Comet Atlas from 10 days ago that i've just got around to stacking. S22 Ultra 10x lens, 48x 4s

[brisk glen]

My first ever attempt on Orion Nebula! I took this with an iPhone 16 pro in B3-4 first photo is 30s exposure, the second is 10s exposure. Really happy how this turned out!

[dusk crow]

Bro Try this setting on AstroShader and you have a 5min exposure time picture

You can also use you 5x Telephoto camera

After the images ends you can save the data with Tiff

And you can send me the Raw data and I can process for you now

And very important is bad for having trees on the picture

[vague shard]

can the comet still be imaged ?

[potent gorge]

yes

[vague shard]

also would I need a telescope or will I be able to image it normally with my 50mm equivalent phone lens ?

shit I'm too late, finally skies cleared here

[potent gorge]

yes

[vague shard]

I'll make an attempt today then , imx 890 is enough right ?

[potent gorge]

idk

[vague shard]

guess we'll find out

[brisk glen]

I’ll try again tonight if I have good weather!

[dusk crow]

Ok, good luck

[rich solar]

my first astrophotograhy try on andromeda galaxy(M31)

can also make it M33 kinda

[dusk crow]

Oh wow Are you using iPhone?

[gaunt kiln]

def not😂

[elder birch]

This is a similar framing from an iPhone15. The newer sensors (since iPhone14) are creeping up

[floral token]

It's nothing phone 1, not even close to an iPhone,

The settings were 800 iso , 18 sec exposure and 108 light frames
Total integration time was 30 min 30ish second

[brisk glen]

Woah you also caught the Triangulum Galaxy!

[rich solar]

yes, tho i need to learn more about editing, i jsut randomly autostrech and yeah that was all some saturation but it didnt did much

[indigo abyss]

How r u guys taking this on a phone? I just got my first phone and I’m wondering if I can do this too

[elder birch]

In general you want as long exposures as the phone will let you - to capture the most light.
The other settings (ISO, white balance, etc) you may need to play with. Then shooting a whole load of images and stacking them will bring out more faint detail.

If you lookup Shayne Mostyn or AstroBackyard they have some good guides for phone astrophotography. As well the astrobiscuit videos of course

[lean magnet]

Stacking

[timid wedge]

1 hour integration orion with phone and 6" untracked dob

[tough nest]

Nahh what

What app do you use and how much magnification?

[timid wedge]

i used a 6" untraacked dob

[tough nest]

I don't think you understand

[timid wedge]

i ddont

[tough nest]

Ok how many times did you zoom in

And question 2 is which app did you use on your phone

[timid wedge]

ohhhhhh

[tough nest]

I'm sorry

That was really really condescending

[timid wedge]

astroshader and 20mm eyepiece with 1200mm focal lenght

[tough nest]

Would there be a difference using astroshader and pro mode on your phone?

[timid wedge]

u can stack and process a bit with astroshader

[tough nest]

Did you just say you could stack in astroshader

I need to get myself an iphone this second

[timid wedge]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-nod-nodding-nodding-cat-gif-21995841

[tough nest]

You're messing with me right?

[tough nest]

From b9?

[timid wedge]

b4

i went to b4 for 2 nights

[tough nest]

Oh thank god

I was about to say that I have no excuse now

[tough nest]

This is a little off topic but what does the Orion neb look like visually for you

[timid wedge]

in b4 or 9?

[tough nest]

B9

[timid wedge]

REALLY faint smudge and stars

[tough nest]

This is what it looks like for me

Everybody on the server was flabbergasted

Bc it is so so bad

[timid wedge]

yes u are cooked

https://tenor.com/view/benjammins-cooked-hes-cooked-you're-cooked-ur-cooked-gif-6506674444416174542

[tough nest]

The nearest b4 is 2 hours away💀

From 2016 light pollution map😭

[dusk crow]

I need one a half hour for a B4 we cooked

If the light pollution map would update for 2024 than I probably would need more.

Maybe There are now b10 areas

[zealous edge]

Always has been, they're just getting bigger.

[lean magnet]

tokyo:

[opaque tundra]

why are iphone pics so poop even with a tracker

[timid wedge]

its just a skill issuee, i get nice pics wwithout one

[grizzled lance]

Mid pics but I'll do better hopefully

[pallid sparrow]

4 min exposure with Google Pixel 7 Pro with the 116.2mm equivalent lens, barely edited. I'd say the 17€ amazon tripod I bought recently was worth it

[opaque tundra]

send proof

[timid wedge]

@opaque tundra

i took that with iiphone 14 pro

[opaque tundra]

Nah I meant like wide field with just the phone alone

[ivory thunder]

i thought you and frogonthemoon were the same person and you were talking to yourself bc i thought the pfps were the same

[somber lantern]

I can't wait to get tracking, will ask for what I'm missing for onstep this christmas, this was a single 8s hand tracked so I can't imagine how good a 30s would look, let alone stacked

[lean magnet]

how do you hand track

[tough nest]

How do you hand track

[spice gale]

rly, from b7 it looks so much better

and the difference from b7 and b9 is not big

[tough nest]

YES IT IS

especially when it comes to nebulosity

[spice gale]

well that's sad

damn I need an iphone to use astroshader

[tough nest]

Ikr

Like what the hell

YOU CAN STACK IN ASTROSHADER

[spice gale]

why android can't do something like it

[spice gale]

ik it's insane

so much easier then transfering all the images on pc and then stack

[tough nest]

Do you think I could get it on my 16 gigabyte Green iPhone 3?

[spice gale]

idek how to stack

[spice gale]

hmm good question

no.

[tough nest]

Deepskycamera or pro mode it is:(

[spice gale]

my pro mode is so trash it only does 10s 3200iso and no raw

[tough nest]

You can't adjust the iso and exposure time?

[spice gale]

gonna change the phone (maybe) this black friday

[spice gale]

I can but those are the max

and deepskycamera is traaash

hate using it

[tough nest]

ESPECIALLY AFTER THAT STUPID ASS UPDATE

[spice gale]

yeah

before it was hard to use now it's even harder

[tough nest]

And my phone camera cannot see any sort of infa red

[spice gale]

also do you know anything ab open live stacker?

[tough nest]

So this is what I get

Same as visual

[spice gale]

oh DAMN

well atleast my phone ain't that dumb

[tough nest]

Probably could have cranked the iso a little

[spice gale]

but still gotta wse filter to get decent images

[tough nest]

I want a UHC filter so badddd

[spice gale]

it's life changing

belive me

[spice gale]

fs

[tough nest]

How big is your scope?

[spice gale]

6"dob flextube

[tough nest]

Yooo

I guess mine is 20mm smaller

[spice gale]

h got the 130mm

[tough nest]

You or me?

[spice gale]

you

[tough nest]

Yeah

[spice gale]

great

[tough nest]

And i scratched the mirror while trying to clean it bc I thought it was dusty but it actually just wasn't in focus

(when I first got it)

[spice gale]

damn...

I hate this school

bc I have less time for astro

[tough nest]

I have fall break rn but EVERY SINGLE NIGHT has been cloudy

[spice gale]

sad

o had loads of clear but didn't go out

[tough nest]

yeah, so if my scope isnt pointed above 75° or below 35° all stars (especially bright ones((this is Jupiter))) look like this

[tough nest]

I never go out lol

Maybe like once every 4 months

[spice gale]

lol

[spice gale]

damn it's so sad

[tough nest]

Yeah

[tough nest]

Kinda thinkin bout getting a new one for xmas

[spice gale]

yh you could

ot would improve ur images and seeing

[tough nest]

Probably would scratch it again while installing it

[spice gale]

lmao better be careful

[tough nest]

How expensive is a UHC filter?

My city might have LEDS

Craaaaaap

[spice gale]

like 50$

[spice gale]

oh damn

[tough nest]

F-woooooooooorrrrrdddd

They want to fully transition by 2025

Are there any filters I could use to get around that

[spice gale]

gosh where do you live?

[tough nest]

Not rlly right?

[spice gale]

idk tbh

[tough nest]

Paris

Nearest b4 is 2 hours away

[spice gale]

b11

[tough nest]

The planets are basically affected by light pollution

[spice gale]

yh this is insanity

[tough nest]

This is dead middle of the night

(without the light from the Eiffel tower)

[spice gale]

cloudy right?

but even with clouds it looks like day

[tough nest]

Yeah it doesn't look as bad when it is not cloudy

Prob yellow from all the smokers here Jesus

[spice gale]

unlucky

[somber lantern]

(only works with eq) slowly move the right ascension to match the sky

[lean magnet]

it doesn't wobble?

[grizzled lance]

🤯

[dusk crow]

My Old IPhone 8 can handle AstroSahder

[tough nest]

Ok well....

Mine is 5 generations younger

[spice gale]

yo ur name is the same as my future setup

[vague shard]

4 min of exposure @potent gorge

[opaque tundra]

Oof the walking noise

[opaque tundra]

Which iPhone is that and what bortle

[north spindle]

comet

[spice gale]

looks great

[vague shard]

Yep

[timid wedge]

iphone14 pro bortle 2

[vague shard]

Was not able to collect much data but here it is stacked

[opaque tundra]

Wish Iphone had astrophotography mode stuff like Samsung

With an actual pro mode

[timid wedge]

i use astroshader and its like 10 times better than pro mode could ever be

[timid wedge]

also heres the comet taken ONLY with my phone and nothingg else

[vague shard]

How tf

[vague shard]

Does your phone have telephoto lens ?

[timid wedge]

yes

[vague shard]

Which one is it ? S23 ultra ?

[timid wedge]

iphone 14 pro

[vague shard]

Ohh okay

[tough nest]

Dither

Or

Die

[timid wedge]

die

[tough nest]

Too late

[dusk crow]

With My IPhone and Celestron Astromaster 114eq

[opaque tundra]

I use it aswell but that weird noise in the image is always annoying

Has anyone tried using darks and bias and see how much of a difference that makes for iPhone pics ?

[somber lantern]

A bit

That's why I only managed to get one good looking frame

I took like 20 but all were terrible

[lean magnet]

as a very bad dob user i am scared of breathing near my mount

(this actually happened the last time i imaged, when i was breathing too close to my mount my stars trailed)

taking a step trailed my stars even tho i was at least 5 meters away

[grizzled lance]

Lmao it's a solid set up

[zealous scaffold]

(that wasnt you breathing it was me, sorry)

[lean magnet]

😨

Whenever I do astro I always feel like I'm being watched by something

but idc me want image

[wild flame]

real

I always have a feeling farmer tom is watching me from across the field

[lean magnet]

i once got jumpscared by my cat

he walked up behind me completely silent

[pastel nexus]

I had that happen with a random cat a few times too

And it was a black cat at night too, so pretty much invisible lol

[lean magnet]

normally my cat just stops me from doing astro tho

i have to sit on the ground to use my very cursed setup

then i cant get up bc my cat sits on my lap

[lean magnet]

its a microsoft surface pro 4 with no screen so the motherboard and battery is exposed, i have it connected to a old monitor but it refuses to give a display out unless i connect a specific 2015 samsung tablet to it

i have absolutely no idea why or how that works

😼

[lean magnet]

nice, but what causes the stars to do that around the center?

mine dont do that

[dusk crow]

The Ring nebula I Stack by my self and I only have a Mac for stacking. You can only download Lynkreos for stacking and I always have problems.

I only can stack the point I do Markt

But some times it looks funny for example the Whirlpool Galaxy

[spice gale]

agree

[tough nest]

Just

3

Messages

Woohoo I have the 20.000 message!

[elder birch]

I think this is radial (barrel) distortion. Similar to what occurs with a fisheye lens. But it’s made worse by the spacing of the smartphone lens to the eyepiece.

The orientation of the distortion is perpendicular to a line through the centre and the effect worsens in scale with distance from the centre - which are classic signs.

The major difference is probably the eyepiece. Actually I believe you can by “flat field” eyepieces, but I’m not sure if they would completely eliminate the effect

[grizzled lance]

Bruh I got jumpscared by this

While stargazibg

[ivory thunder]

this is brighter than my cloudy sky at sunset jfc

[somber lantern]

La criatura

[tough nest]

Bro I got jump scared by these stupid groundhogs

They made this demonic howling/screeching noise

[tough nest]

https://youtu.be/zk1mAd77Hr4?si=P9T9wdfFTcJzAXgE

It was this thing

[vague shard]

Taking data for orion nebulae

[lofty trench]

hello, I recently went to a bortle 4 sky to take images of the milky way and stack them later, but for some reason when I compared the stacked version to the single exposure the single exposure was way better and more detailed (I took the single exposure with the regular Iphone camera app and photoshop and the stacked one with nightcap and siril and photoshop), did I do something wrong?

[vague shard]

1.5 hours of integration time
Exif : nothing phone 2 , imx 890

[vague shard]

Does drizzling increase resolution,if yes then can I do it with phone ?

[potent gorge]

it doubles youre image at the cost of snr

[vague shard]

I see , so its double edged sword

[tough nest]

What's that?

[tough nest]

Anyways, this is really cool

[vague shard]

I was gonna ask the same , thought that was some other nebulae so I boosted saturation a bit there

Its NGC 2238

Looked it up on star map

Holy shit ,its the rosette nebulae

[tough nest]

Yeah that is what I was about to say

[tough nest]

But is the really bright orange star Beetlejuice?

[vague shard]

Yes

[tough nest]

Then it doesn't quite make sense

Maybe I'm looking at it wrong

[vague shard]

Why though ?

Here

My framing

[tough nest]

Oh you're right!

Sorry

[tough nest]

Yeah I didn't quite get like the perspective

[vague shard]

Well I just blindly framed it so that makes sense

I'm just lucky lol

[potent gorge]

rosette nebula

[dusk crow]

Do you use any Telephoto Camera? Zoom?

[vague shard]

Nope , nothing phone 2 primary camera

[zealous scaffold]

I can shoot again yayy

[zealous edge]

Somewhat recently (a few weeks ago) I stayed at a Bortle 4 location for a couple days, as opposed to the Bortle 8 I live in. It's a yearly trip for me and my family, staying at our relatives mountain house in the middle of nowhere. Easily one of my favorite places to be, not just for how beautiful and serene everything is, but for the dark night skies too.

There, I would capture my current best image of the Andromeda Galaxy.

A total of nearly 17 minutes of data, taken with my iPhone 12 and my Orion StarBlast 114mm dob. Photographed and Stacked in AstroShader.

In addition to this, I got a pretty alright image of the Orion Nebula too, which I'll probably share eventually.

[tough nest]

That means I need 2 hours of data to do this from b9

[spice gale]

them astroshader users

[tough nest]

Frick astroshader

My phone can't even see infared😭

[spice gale]

I'm not jealous

[tough nest]

Uhh...

Yeah

Deepskycamera is way better dude

[spice gale]

my phone can't do more then 10s exposures

[tough nest]

I love bortle nine

[spice gale]

yeah

[tough nest]

Aren't your stars trailing

[spice gale]

Come ooooon where is that black friday

[spice gale]

4s I got startrails

[tough nest]

Then why do you need 10 second exposure

[spice gale]

for mw

when I go

to b3

[tough nest]

But the problem is, is that there are always scary animals that jump scare me everytime I am in dark skies

[vague shard]

Currently at b4 , last night here , collecting as much data as possible

[tough nest]

Last time in Normandy it was like 4 of these screaming like 10 meters away from me

It was scary as hell

[zealous edge]

I use AstroShader because it's all I have access to

Nothing I can do about it

[tough nest]

Nahh bro why was this in the HoF 😭
🙏

[tough nest]

Nothing I can do about stupid arse deepskycamera

IT IS SO BAD

SO F-WORDING BAD

[vague shard]

Just use gcam

[tough nest]

qu'est-ce que c'est?

[spice gale]

fr, we used tostreet light

couldnt agree more tbh

[tough nest]

What is gcam?

[tough nest]

The other time we were staying at a wild boar infested place

We had to clap so they wouldn't come and eat us

[vague shard]

Google camera, has dedicated astro mode that works pretty well, auto stacks images and noise reduction

[tough nest]

Yeah only for mw

[lofty trench]

these are stacked images I took the other day using nightcap and siril, but I have single exposures that are much better, what did I do wrong?

[fleet bramble]

im assuming the left is stacked?

[lofty trench]

They are both stacked, this is the single exposure

[lofty trench]

I don’t understand why this looks better

[fleet bramble]

did you include the foreground when stacking?

[lofty trench]

Yes, but then cropped it out and added it back later

[vague shard]

More data

[zealous edge]

oh goodness

[potent gorge]

🔊

[vague shard]

Is it good or too saturated ?

[potent gorge]

Cooked.

[vague shard]

What does that mean 🧍?

[tough nest]

You didn't just cook it

You

1. Fried

2. Baked

3. Grilled

4. Roasted

5. Sauteed

6. Braised

7. Broiled

8. Poached

9. Toasted

10. Seared

11. Steamed

12. Boiled

13. Smoked

14. Caramelized

15. Barbecued

16. Sautéed

17. Crisped

18. Simmered

19. Glazed

20. Candied

21. Blanched

22. Blackened

23. Charred

24. Pressure-cooked

25. Stir-fried

26. Slow-cooked

27. Parboiled

28. Sous-vide

29. Deep-fried

30. Pan-fried

It

[potent gorge]

[vague shard]

I don't undedstand these slang terms , just tell is it positive response or negative

[tough nest]

You overdid it

Too much

Over processed in this case

[vague shard]

I see

[vague shard]

How would you process it ?

[tough nest]

It is better for it not to have rainbows in the background for sure

(I can see how that can be mixed up with nebulosity)

[vague shard]

I see , so what's the fix for that

[tough nest]

Uhh

Idk

[vague shard]

There's a channel that allows sharing data and other people process it right ?

[tough nest]

Yeah

[vague shard]

I'll share data there and see if anyone helps

[vague shard]

@tough nest better ? @potent gorge

[zealous edge]

Oooh I'm not either of the people you tagged but I can say that looks a lot better

[vague shard]

thank you , I've also shared my data in processing section along with subs if you want might want to give it a try

[tough nest]

WOW

[tough nest]

A lot lot lot better

[vague shard]

Can it be better ? With blurx terminator maybe ?

[tough nest]

Probably but I just process with LR mobile

[vague shard]

I processed this particular one using pixinsight and photoshop

Blurxterninator sharpens the image right ?

[somber lantern]

Hmmmmm

[coral cedar]

Moon hdr again i guess

[lofty trench]

How did you take this

[zealous edge]

It's a composite image, so a combination of multiple different exposures. Not really easy if even possible to get a single exposure image or even a stacked image of the moon that looks like this, without using some method of composite imaging.

[lofty trench]

How would I take it?

[floral token]

I have nothing phone 1, is it really possible lol. I might try this view, can U send settings, like did U zoomed in or just 1x cropped, cause without 1x we can't get raw image, right??

@vague shard need help Brodie 👽

[coral cedar]

Its easy, 3 shots

Full moon, current phase moon, over exposure moon

Then you wanna blend them together in photoshop

Or any app in mobile.like ibis paint could be possible

[vague shard]

I used gcam for this ,because I didn't had enough storage for all raw subs , you could get cropped raw with gcam , just use dedictaed astrophotography mode along and centering the frame every 2 shots and that's pretty much it

[floral token]

Also use nebula photos siril guide, it was really helpful for me

[vague shard]

I don't process with siril , I've provided data for it , you might give it a try , I wanna frame this particular photo in my room so I want the best lol

Still not happy with nebulosity but sam helped me with blurxterninator and it looks a lot better

[vague shard]

And , is it available on youtube ?

[floral token]

this is single exposure of Orion constellation by my nothing phone 1 with untracked tripod, 1600 iso, 13 exposure, default zoom. Is this good for a single sub or should i increase my iso or exposure? what do think about it? (also i think discord will decrease my photo quality and create a green circle but ignore that)

[floral token]

Yes it's best

Wait I will share a video that can help you

[vague shard]

Yes , that's what I got , maybe try framing rosette in this too because why not ? 😄

[vague shard]

Much appreciated 🙏

[floral token]

https://youtu.be/H9AuuTJ44Ik?si=U08GD1Nk2W1mcTAf
This is for siril guide( do not get afraid, it's complicated at first but then it will be easy if you follow him, he is a great teacher)

https://youtu.be/P_qqLA0WKJg?si=7Njy6958X8H-oMQv

This is for making barn door tracker ( star tracker to increase our exposure and in future getting a camera )
I will be doing this project

[floral token]

Thanks, can U share your single exposure raw file so can I see the difference and improve.

[vague shard]

I have made motorized version too lol, my heatsink was bit loose so it overheated and the driver malfunctioned , that's why I did untracked

[vague shard]

I've shared in that gdrive

[floral token]

Oh okay

[gaunt kiln]

1. Baked
   2. Boiled
   3. Broiled
   4. Grilled
   5. Roasted
   6. Fried
   7. Sautéed
   8. Steamed
   9. Smoked
   10. Braised
   11. Simmered
   12. Poached
   13. Toasted
   14. Caramelized
   15. Seared
   16. Blanched
   17. Parboiled
   18. Blackened
   19. Crisped
   20. Charred
   21. Confit
   22. Slow-cooked
   23. Sous-vide
   24. Glazed
   25. Candied
   26. Marinated
   27. Infused
   28. Seasoned
   29. Scorched
   30. Basted
   31. Scalded
   32. Reduced
   33. Deglazed
   34. Stewed
   35. Melted
   36. Fired
   37. Cured
   38. Brined
   39. Pickled
   40. Dried
   41. Tenderized
   42. Fermented
   43. Crisped-up
   44. Foiled (wrapped in foil and heated)
   45. Overdone
   46. Underdone
   47. Flash-fried
   48. Oil-sealed
   49. Rendered
   50. Bubbled
   51. Toasted-up
   52. Juiced-up
   53. Deep-fried
   54. Zested
   55. Flamed
   56. Bruléed
   57. Microwaved
   58. Half-cooked
   59. Gravy-ed
   60. Ovened
   61. Pressure-cooked
   62. Pot-roasted
   63. Salt-crusted
   64. Infused-in
   65. Wine-bathed
   66. Scalloped
   67. Braise-fired
   68. Egg-washed
   69. Nut-roasted
   70. Broth-bathed
   71. Herbalized
   72. Wood-fired
   73. Flame-roasted
   74. Griddle-fried
   75. Pit-fired
   76. Oven-blistered
   77. Cheese-smothered
   78. Sear-marked
   79. Burnished
   80. Toast-tanned
   81. Glaze-finished
   82. Sizzled
   83. Herb-basted
   84. Heat-shocked
   85. Vinegar-soaked
   86. Shallow-fried
   87. Skillet-seared
   88. BBQ’d
   89. Flash-seared
   90. Sugar-glazed
   91. Fry-crisped
   92. Wok-fried
   93. Dough-baked
   94. Crust-browned
   95. Butter-browned
   96. Malted
   97. Sweetened
   98. Paprika-dusted
   99. Oven-crisped
   100. Home-cooked

[tough nest]

You used chatgpt didn't you

[coral cedar]

hdr moon again i guess lmao

[tough nest]

How

[coral cedar]

Its actually 3 images blended together
1 image if current phase moon
1 image over exposured one
1 image full moon
You wanna blend them together in photoshop/ibis paint or any software that can blend images together

[gaunt kiln]

Oh, absolutely not! I mean, ChatGPT? Why would I ever need to use that? I have my own… uh, completely original, human-based sources for responses. Yeah, definitely nothing artificial here. Just a regular, totally normal conversation. No high-tech, AI-powered assistance happening at all.

So, uh… any other questions?

[tough nest]

Beep bood

Bop

[ivory thunder]

01101011 10111010 01101110 11110101

[gaunt kiln]

Oh, wow, “Beep boop bop” and binary? That… definitely doesn’t sound like something I’d say. No, not at all. I mean, I don’t even speak in ones and zeros!

Just good old-fashioned letters here, like any normal, non-robotic conversationalist. You know, no binary, no “beeps” or “boops”—just me, doing my usual totally human-like thing!

[zealous scaffold]

45 61 72 74 68 20 69 73 20 66 6C 61 74 20 61 6E 64 20 6C 69 66 65 20 69 73 20 61 20 73 69 6D 75 6C 61 74 69 6F 6E 2E

[gaunt kiln]

Oh, “Earth is flat and life is a simulation,” huh? Well, that’s… quite a statement! I’d say we’re more likely on a round planet spinning through space than in some elaborate simulation. But hey, anything’s possible, right? Just as long as nobody finds the “edge” of this flat Earth—or spots any suspiciously glitchy moments in this so-called simulation!

[zealous edge]

My most recent image of the Orion Nebula, not sure if I consider this one to be my best or not. It's a little sharper than my previous image of Orion and has better colors IMO, but also has less nebulosity visible.

About 13.5 minutes of integration time, 800 x 1 second exposures. Taken on my iPhone 12 using AstroShader. Star diffraction spikes are manually edited in because they look nice I think.

[lean magnet]

how does it look without the spikes?

they look off imo

[zealous edge]

It looks alright, the stars being just pinpoints. I just like having the diffraction spikes on the brighter stars, it just feels nice.

[zealous scaffold]

How do you do diffraction spikes I've never tried them out

[somber lantern]

You get a newt with a 3/4 thing spider

[lofty trench]

Im planning on trying to take a stacked image of the Milky Way from my bortle 7-8 sky and I’ve seen a few tutorials online but most of them were for android, what would I have to do to take it with iPhone

[zealous scaffold]

does astroshader work for MW? you should just be able to set it to take a bunch of subs, idk how astroshader works tho bc i have android

i do recommend if available to do MW tracked so you can get more data and not lose detail due to stacking artifacts

[zealous edge]

They appear naturally with sufficiently long exposures, on telescopes that have an obstruction on the front end of the OTA, so a secondary mirror spider, or a mask. Basically the light gets more concentrated in the parts of the front of the OTA where the obstructions aren't, so you get these flares that form diffraction spikes.

Four legged secondaries will create four pointed stars, three legs will make six pointed stars, and two legs will make two pointed stars.

In my image I just added them artificially, but it's entirely possibly to get nice looking diffraction spikes just using a phone and a reflector telescope.

[zealous scaffold]

i have a 6se if that helps

[zealous edge]

Heck, if you're using a phone for astrophotography, you may get diffraction spikes even if you're using a refractor, as oftentimes the inconsistencies in the phone camera's assembly can create aberrations and diffraction spikes

[lofty trench]

I do have a tracker but do you rhink it is possible with an iPhone?

[zealous edge]

MW Astro is definitely possible with any phone I'd say, you just need sufficient exposure time.

Tracking helps too, I'd imagine

But it's not completely necessary

[zealous scaffold]

i got this with my phone so yeah probably, although this is android, iphone has good cameras tho

this was 30 mins untracked on cygnus

[zealous edge]

Oh wow that's gorgeous

[zealous scaffold]

i have heightened saturation mw too bc i prefer more saturation and vibrance

plus some star removal

bc it was a tad cluttered

[zealous edge]

I got this with only 30 seconds at a bortle 4.5, iPhone 12

obviously not great at all, but it was only 30 seconds lol

[zealous scaffold]

atleast u could see it with 30 seconds lol

i took like 3 mins til any mw was visible

[lofty trench]

In a bortle 7?!

[zealous scaffold]

b6.5

[zealous edge]

nice, how much integration time was that?

[lofty trench]

30 seconds

[zealous edge]

Oh wow ok

what bortle was that taken in? Also what phone did you use for it

[lofty trench]

Bortle 4 with iPhone 14

Heavy processing though

[zealous edge]

Damn alright

I guess the iPhone 14's night mode is just that much better than the iPhone 12's

[lofty trench]

yeah but you have to consider that 1. from the image you probably weren't pointing it at the core but the zenith ( consider that I got a similar picture by pointing at the zenith) 2. I denoised, stretched, and boosted saturation on photoshop

has anyone tried to take an image with the pleiades tracked and stacked? need advice

[royal fern]

WOAH

[royal fern]

Can u show

A 3 min exposure

[zealous scaffold]

i dont have a 3 min exposure

3 mins of like 5 second exposure stacked until mw was visible

[royal fern]

Oh

I wanna see MW from b6.5

[royal fern]

Can u show me any of ur MW capture

[zealous scaffold]

^

[zealous scaffold]

^

i shot cygnus

[floral token]

It's good but editing needs to be improved

It's like a ai did the editing 👽

[zealous edge]

I haven't done a tracked image of the Pleiades (none of my images are tracked lol), but I did take a 7.5 minute long stacked image (150x 3 second exposures) of the Pleiades once, I should honestly try and get a better shot of them now that my equipment and experience is better

Here I'll send it

I didn't realize at the time that it was somewhat out of focus. Also it got denoised to hell and back, since my experience in post processing wasn't exactly very good lol

some walking noise is somewhat visible too

[zealous scaffold]

i would go out and shoot pleiades rn but its about to rain soon and its a tad bit cloudy

[royal fern]

WOAH

[gusty zodiac]

cygnus is barely inside that but awesome shot nonetheless

[zealous scaffold]

well it was aimed at cygnus but im guessing during setup and shooting it moved out of frame a little bit, but u can see it on the right

[lean magnet]

i should've redone my Cygnus before it left

i mean it's still here but it's not in an area i can shoot anymore

[iron bear]

Single sub with 32/125mm Mini Guide scope. With/without blurx

55s iso 400

[lofty trench]

How?

What app did you use

[tough nest]

He just has a dslr

[fickle mulch]

Kkkkk

[smoky scaffold]

this is phone astrophotography

[tough nest]

Ik

[smoky scaffold]

he used a phone

[coral cedar]

He uses xiaomi 14T

[tough nest]

I just don't like to admit to myself that it is real

[coral cedar]

Which has great sensor for astrophotography

And dslr wont pop the circle thing also

[coral cedar]

Got another sub

Still have alot of noise

[iron bear]

xiaomi 12.

[coral cedar]

Oh sorry my bad

[iron bear]

🗣️

[coral cedar]

Idk why u dont want use dedicated astrophotoraphy tools

Way better actually

[iron bear]

The only major advantage I see is not having the distortion from the eyepiece. But now I have an UltraFlatfield eyepiece that greatly reduces the distortion caused by the afocal method. The noise and dynamic range of my phone are already quite decent for astrophotography, and an astro camera here in Brazil is pretty expensive. I will probably upgrade my mount before considering buying a camera.

[coral cedar]

Make sense

Wish you the best on astrophotography

Id love to see your pic further

[iron bear]

Thanks!
I should get back to taking more photos in December. My college exams are over, so I have more time now.
The only problem is that it’s Autumn/summer here, and it’s raining almost nonstop because of the Atlantic and Amazon rainforests. Clear nights are hard to come by. Right now, it’s raining, and it has been going all day for about four days straight.

This winter, it rained so little that fires started everywhere, which made the sky very poor and hazy. That’s why I took few photos this year. Complicated weather around here. 💀

[coral cedar]

Ahhh weather issue, same as here, i live in city b9 right now, clear skies are pretty hard also, since the polution got worsen, live southern, its pretty damn hard to took picture also, but yeah, cant predict weather innit

Lmao

[coral cedar]

Hahaha weather had mood also

Lmao

[iron bear]

Yeah, Bortle 9 is a problem too. I usually go to the countryside to take photos, but when I went this year, it was either cloudy or the sky was smoky. All the photos I took this year were from only three clear nights back in March.

I live in São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil (and in the Americas), so the night sky here is B9++++ 💀 . I use a CLS filter when I take photos from here, but the sky transparency needs to be perfect; otherwise, it reflects more light and blows out the photos. I think it’s just not higher than B9 because the scale stops at 9. I tried to photograph the comet, but it was too low on the horizon, so everything was blown out. I live in a skyscraper/apartment, so I have to take everything to an open area, which is tiring. This year I didn’t even bother trying to take photos from here (except for the comet) since the results are really bad.

Both photos were not taken with the same eyepiece, so the one I took from here in B9 has much more distortion. But you can get an idea of how much signal is lost due to being in B9. The emission region only didn’t disappear because I use the CLS filter, which intensifies its capture... Otherwise, it would have disappeared as well.

My guiding on the photo taken in B4 was also terrible. It was very windy. That's why I want to upgrade my mount first.

[tough nest]

Ugh stupid deepskycamera doing it's thing

[zealous edge]

oh my goodness the spherical aberration 💀

[iron bear]

Yeah, the guidescope is f4 and have no FF

[coral cedar]

Same here comet isnt visible in this b9 city

[coral cedar]

Nice result from a b9 pic

[coral cedar]

So this cls filter

Is just like a narrowband filter, but it just capture the light of the nebulae?

[zealous scaffold]

Do you have an alt az or EQ? Id assume with the long exposures your able to do an eq

[iron bear]

it´s just a single sub on both

[zealous scaffold]

Also finally got some tape to cover the LDAF on my phone camera so I can finally shoot through the eyepiece now, just gotta wait for this rain to go away, can only shoot on Sunday and Monday bc of the rain lol

[iron bear]

Cls is broadband, but a little more restrict.

[iron bear]

Eq. Generic eq3 with onstep

Since it was very windy and I hadn't finished modifying it yet, the guiding was pretty bad, which made the photo a bit blurry.

[zealous scaffold]

I've seen some of your widefield, how much int time do you normally get? I did my first ever mw with only 30 mins int time untracked and I'm extremely happy with it

[floral token]

It's great fishy 🫠👽

I can see some aliens twerking over middle right

[zealous scaffold]

Omg circle it

[floral token]

5 dollar

[zealous scaffold]

I've been wondering what this is lol

[gusty zodiac]

Brocchi's cluster (Cr 399)

also known as The Coathanger

[zealous scaffold]

Ooh ok, I wasn't sure if it was a satellite or something else, thanks!

[floral token]

Fishy what are your settings and device ?

I am in northern hemispheres, so no Orion for me 🤡

[gusty zodiac]

its not actually a cluster tho... but still rly cool-looking star formation nonetheless

[gusty zodiac]

fr? You have to be really far up North if Orion is too low for you

[floral token]

It's visible but quite low and the core is not much visible

[zealous scaffold]

I have a Google pixel 9 pro fold, it's been a few weeks since I shot that image but I believe I did like 5 or 15s light exposure, beforehand I tested iso by shooting at different ones til I found a good middle ground that wasnt overexposed but wasn't super dark either

[floral token]

I have nothing phone 1 not good but atleast not trash

Try Orion constellation @zealous scaffold

[zealous scaffold]

I have shot Orion neb in the past when I first got into the hobby, here's my first ever nebula picture after only 2 months into the hobby

[floral token]

It's not with phone but it's amazing

[zealous scaffold]

I plan on shooting it again at the end of November or sometime in December but it's been raining out a lot, rain doesn't stop till Sunday

[zealous scaffold]

It's shot with phone

Thru a scope obc

[floral token]

Telescope

I am talking just phone 🫠

[gusty zodiac]

judging by the height of Aquila that's rly not that bad. Orion should prob be at like at least 30-40° above the horizon at highest point

[floral token]

Yeah

[gusty zodiac]

though if lp is present I can see how that might not be optimal

[floral token]

I will show my last night photo

Orion constellation

[zealous scaffold]

I could try it but Orion is only high in the sky pretty late at night so

[floral token]

Yeah

[iron bear]

It depends. With a fixed tripod, I usually take around 50-70 subs of 20 seconds each, and it tends to work well.

.

I took this one of the northern Milky Way, but I used my Eq. However, since it was only 30 subs, you can easily achieve a similar result with a fixed tripod. This region of the Milky Way is quite low from my latitude in the Southern Hemisphere. So it’s easier to capture it in the north.

[zealous scaffold]

I'll probably shoot towards cygnus again since it's nearly straight up, I'll have to find a way to attach my phone to the top of the scope so I can do tracking this time

If I do that I'm aiming for prob an hour and a half of data which tbh is a bit overkill for MW lol

[iron bear]

In 2019, when I didn’t have a good tripod, I used to do it like this

[zealous scaffold]

I don't have a tripod so I'll just have to rely on taping it down or something lol

[floral token]

Stacking and editing done by mami. Thanks mami!!

Mami: cropped version

Stacking and editing done by cai

[zealous scaffold]

How much int time

[floral token]

Around 40min, 250 frames, 10 second each

Iso 800

Is that rossete nebula ?

[zealous scaffold]

Uhhh

Do a plate solve on it

[floral token]

I don't know and I didn't did editing and stacking

My laptop is in Asus service center 💀

[zealous scaffold]

You can do a platesolve in #🤖-ask-a-bot

[floral token]

Oh to check the objects right

[zealous scaffold]

Ye

It'll tell u the constellations

[floral token]

Yeah thanks

[red ridge]

I've been trying to get a chance to capture those for ages

[coral cedar]

I see

Alot of differences huh

[coral cedar]

I see

Whats differences between them?

[dusk crow]

You did this with a phone?

[floral token]

Yeah, it's quite unbelievable for me too. The device was nothing phone 1(doesn't matter much), 800 iso, bottle 5 (medium horizon light though) , 10 second exposure. TOTAL INTEGRATION TIME was around 40min.

I didn't did the editing and stacking, it was done by other members in discord.

If I had done, it would be trash

[dusk crow]

Yeah Crazy how much Details can a phone get with amount of exposure time

[floral token]

Yep, didn't take any calibration frames, next time I will make sure to take those frames to make it more promising

[distant epoch]

Without a phone adapter either

Just managed to keep still enough lol

[zealous scaffold]

first time shooting with my new phone

[wild flame]

whats the full setup? (if you dont mind sharing)

[zealous scaffold]

Celestron Nexstar 6SE, the phone is Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold, and I'm shooting through a Celestron 17mm Plosll Eyepiece

[wild flame]

solid setup
send the pics when they're ready, I haven't really seen the pixel 9's performance yet

[zealous scaffold]

yeah for sure, i have a sub i can share rn

object is pleiades for reference

3s exp lights

[wild flame]

cant tell if it's a tad out of focus or an artifact

[zealous scaffold]

650 3s exp lights, a total of 32.5 mins

12 gigs of data

[zealous scaffold]

i dont have a bahtinov mask but we'll see lol

[wild flame]

ah

[zealous scaffold]

i focused it best i could but its hard when this is all that Deepsky cam shows you

[wild flame]

you can always use digital zoom to your advantage to dial it in

[zealous scaffold]

yeah i did, i got it as best i could lol

[wild flame]

then yea you're set, how's the eyepiece?

[zealous scaffold]

so originally i bought a 4se from an elderly man who was selling the scope on facebook marketplace, and he hooked me up with a whole briefcase of eyepieces and filters which ive discovered costs $300 on its own, along with a bunch of books and maps of the sky, the eyepieces are probably a few years old but their in really great condition and i havent really had any issues with them other than the length of them

[wild flame]

thats good, my friend has the same eyepiece kit and we have no complaints with ours

[zealous scaffold]

yeah their great, i believe plossls are specifically pretty good at preventing CA

[wild flame]

I see you play Fisch

[zealous scaffold]

ive been fishy before i played fisch

but yeah i play fisch

[wild flame]

truly the only good game to play right now

wish they had a more diverse amount of rods

[zealous scaffold]

yeah, truly is lol, ive been so bored lately, im good at phasmophobia and love the heck out of that game but none of my friends ever wanna play with me

[zealous scaffold]

they just dropped a massive update

[wild flame]

thats real, its been collecting dust in my steam library

[wild flame]

oh right I only glanced over the changelog and didnt notice that new rod

[zealous scaffold]

i believe they have huge plans to add a bunch more rods with new abilities and stuff

[wild flame]

nice, i'm stuck grinding 100k for that rod the travelling merchant sells

[zealous scaffold]

oh yeah that ones good i believe

although im not sure if its as good compared to the newer rods

i have steady rod, magnet rod, and another one i dont remember the name of

[wild flame]

fortune?

[zealous scaffold]

yeah fortune

sorry brain not worky

[wild flame]

real

its what I use with the 10,000 kg enchantment

I rarely can catch mythics since its impossible to keep it steady

[zealous scaffold]

yeah i use steady rod for mythics and legendaries

if u ever wanna play lmk, not much socializing would be done on fisch tho lol so not much of a point haha

[wild flame]

I usually have an abundance of time so i'd join whenever ur on

plus playing with friends vs alone is better either way

[zealous scaffold]

yeah for sure

[wild flame]

coo i'll pm my user

[zealous scaffold]

kk

[wild flame]

and to not get muted for off-topic convo, heres an andromeda picture from my phone

[zealous scaffold]

ooh very nice, ive never been able to get the arms only core, also ive been timed out like 40 times so its not a big deal

[wild flame]

I really wanna get cleaner data cuz I think my phone has the potential to take a good image of the andromeda galaxy without a telescope

[zealous scaffold]

what phone do you have?

[wild flame]

I use my slightly broken S22 Ultra for phone AP

SIM card connector isnt working so I exclusively use it for imaging nowadays

[zealous scaffold]

ah rip

foldable phones are amazing for widefield, you dont even need a tripod to keep the camera pointed at the sky

[wild flame]

unexpected convenience

[zealous scaffold]

yeah lol its the only reason i took my widefield MW

i also learned how to do a starmask with this image which was sweet

[wild flame]

that pallete itches my eyeballs in a very pleasant way

[zealous scaffold]

thanks

if itching your eyeballs is a good thing then thank you very much

its actually just a dull mw image i took that i put into photoshop and increased saturation on lol

i was gonna image jupiter tonight but i couldnt lower exposure enough to get good detail on it

[wild flame]

for context this is mine

[zealous scaffold]

how much data?

[wild flame]

probs no more than 30 min

[zealous scaffold]

mines only like 15-

wait what bortle

[wild flame]

yours is so much softer and nicer on the eyes

probs like 4

[zealous scaffold]

the softness comes from the starmask lol

lemme find the original 1 sec

[wild flame]

and mine isnt as saturated

[wild flame]

gonna bump that up hold on

[zealous scaffold]

idk how well saturation will work on that with how much it pops already

[slate bone]

I took a couple crapshoots with my phone

Each single picture beats the best I could do last year pre dob

Everyone needs a dob.

[zealous scaffold]

i have a schmidt-cassegrain and it works quite well, obviously its on a tracked mount so

[wild flame]

when i'm not using my bare phone, I have a mak

[tough nest]

Don't call those crapshots!

[wild flame]

(1400mm at F/13 )

[tough nest]

Here's what the Orion neb looks to me from b9

(this is 2sec exposure)

[zealous scaffold]

man you cant even see it thru a scope naked eye can u?

i can see nebulosity of it through a scope naked eye

[wild flame]

what scope

cuz uh

must be kinda small

my friends 10in dob and my phone got this

[zealous scaffold]

i need some of those

[wild flame]

dobs are nice but since I do mainly AP, I dont have the expendable budget to get one

[zealous scaffold]

10 in must be sweet, i got a 6 in SCT and even that gets a bunch of detail so

[wild flame]

our bortle 9 skies make it almost useless but in a dark sky, you can see so much detail

ring nebula with the naked eye

detail in orion

[zealous scaffold]

i couldnt image jupie thru that, i can see the bands of jupiter with my naked eye thru the scope, and the moons, so it must look incredible thru a 10 inch

[wild flame]

its really nice

idk if I have pics rn but it was surprising how well you can see it even with a phone mounted

[zealous scaffold]

i love orion neb one of my personal favorites

[wild flame]

oh 100%

[zealous scaffold]

the fact that you can visibly see nebulosity is wild

even if its black and white

[wild flame]

for fun, I wanna redo this image I got of it with like 10 min of data

[zealous scaffold]

ooh sweet

[wild flame]

most of my phone pics were taken untracked so it set the exposures to like half a second on it's astro feature

[zealous scaffold]

i really wanna do widefield on orion sword but deep sky camera uses digital zoom and wont let me use my telephoto zoom so i cant do it without losing detail

[wild flame]

yow

thats why I love samsung

the Ultras get their own dedicated astro mode in it's RAW app

and it livestacks for you

[zealous scaffold]

well my phone has 5x zoom thats real and then everything above that is digital zoom

i have a pixel phone so it has an ap mode built in that live stacks aswell

[wild flame]

5x is solid for most targets

[zealous scaffold]

it also gives me a cool video of the live stack

[wild flame]

my 10x only has a 10mp sensor

thats cool

I wish they didn't ditch the 10x telephoto for a 5x

[zealous scaffold]

yeah so my issue is that i cant use my 5x telephoto zoom with DSC

because dsc doesnt let you switch to a different camera

[wild flame]

I hope they implement that feature soon

[gusty zodiac]

you should also check out Ring and Lagoon nebulas

[zealous scaffold]

i have shot lagoon neb in the past but i didnt get the greatest data on it

[gusty zodiac]

still, if I can see nebulosity with my 3 inch in like a B7-8ish area, they have to be pretty darn bright

[slate bone]

Heh, i mean, compared to what I can get with my RC, those are crap.

But compared to the very best I could manage without special equipment, every single one of those beats that.

[tough nest]

5.5 inch

[spice gale]

@tough nest i might get an iphone

so ill leave deepskycamera and join astroshader

[zealous edge]

Ok so unfortunately, iPhones tend to be worse at Astro than Samsung or Pixel phones, especially anything less than the 12 model. The 15 is probably alright, I'd hope so atleast.

[spice gale]

i am getting the 15 pro lol

i hope so

[dusk crow]

I have the IPhone 13 and a IPhone 12 Pro Max. it’s work good

I also have my old IPhone 8😅

Many noises

[spice gale]

i am exited to try astroshader

when ill get the 15 pro

if ill get it

[lean magnet]

why airdroid screen mirroring

just use link to windows

[zealous scaffold]

link to windows does have screen mirroring

or well it does

but its not available for my phone

[lean magnet]

😿

[zealous scaffold]

i did it

[pastel nexus]

https://tenor.com/view/noice-nice-click-gif-8843762

[opaque tundra]

@timid wedge what settings did you use on astroshader for that orion?

[timid wedge]

12000 iso and 1sec exposures (i forgot to put 0.5 sec it was an accident) so i recomed 0.5 sec

[dusky crane]

Zoom

OnePlus Nord 3 20min of exposure

Crop

Comet a3

[bronze jackal]

weather gods after pulling the oldest trick in the book deciding to give the uk non stop cloud either side of the new moon and let it clear once the moon is out again: https://tenor.com/baA69.gif

I might try stay up tonight to get a photo of orion

[floral token]

Someone did the editing

[vapid ledge]

Phone AP during a visual session

EdgeHD 800 with a phone mount

[calm sigil]

pardon but that was taken with your phonr?????

i tried hooking my 8+ up on a phone mount and it didnt work at all lmao

[vapid ledge]

Try use the astroshader app