Phone Astrophotography

[wind spoke]

or from the stacking process

[spice gale]

oh okay

well its 1 am for me and tmrw i gotta wake up at 8

so gn

nice chatting to you

[wind spoke]

okii

cyaa

[wild flame]

bit of a reprocess

20 min of data from a smoggy B9 sky

[lean magnet]

😿

stil good

[wild flame]

not bad for a telephoto on a phone

and the built in livestacking

I just need to wait for it to be slightly less windy and warmer

march might be the only time i'm able to hit the targets I want

[grizzled lance]

What scope

[wild flame]

S22 ultra and a dream

[grizzled lance]

Dream?

[wild flame]

yes

the full equipment list is:

[grizzled lance]

Yuh

[wild flame]

S22 Ultra
Star Adventurer 2i
Sky watcher tripod

[grizzled lance]

Ohhhh

Damn

I'm quite impressed for only 20min in b9

[wild flame]

I have pretty high hopes for this lil phone

[grizzled lance]

Yeah once you actually get the settings you start cooking

[wild flame]

I mean I was able to make out the dust lanes on andromeda with only an hour of data

untracked, mind you

half the data B3, half B9

[grizzled lance]

That's a decent pic

[wild flame]

gonna image a lot more this year

[grizzled lance]

I swear you can faintly see the satellite galaxy

[wild flame]

oh you can

bottom middle

[grizzled lance]

Yeah

Everytime I take pic of andromeda i swear bottom galaxy (for me it's upside down cuz telescope) it's invisible

[wild flame]

they're rather faint

[lean magnet]

oh you were tracked

[wild flame]

I guess you can call it that

not polar aligned, low battery

[lean magnet]

that makes a huge difference

wdym not polar aligned

[wild flame]

pretty sure I was a few degrees off polaris

[lean magnet]

oh

polaris is like a degree off the true pole anyways

we should go move it to the true pole

[wild flame]

I kinda threw it on the tripod, guessed the alignment, and imaged while I hung out with friends

well it is techincally

Polaris is just our closest reference

hence why we dont center on polaris in our polar scopes

we align it to the circle around it

which gives us true north

[lean magnet]

reasonable

[wild flame]

the livestack did its job tho

so I got a decent image

[peak trout]

All takes from an Iphone 15

10s single image on night time mode

[somber lantern]

Nope

It's a 6" scope

It can resolve way better than that

It's lack of focus and bad atmosphere

This is Venus and Saturn with my 4.5"

[lean magnet]

what

how are your rings so sharp but theres no detail on saturn surface

[somber lantern]

Idk ask registax sharpening

[lean magnet]

registax silly

[somber lantern]

This is an older saturn

[somber lantern]

I wish I had this seeing back then

[balmy ravine]

When?

[floral token]

bino and phone ap. 2 min integration. 1600 iso and 1/1.5 sec fraames

[formal notch]

guys my phone can only do 1/3sec max exposure

is it possible to get good results with it in doing widefield?

[floral token]

it should bde 32 seconds

[formal notch]

its 1/3

not 32

i checked (in deepskystacker and cross checked with openlivestacker)

[floral token]

what is your phone?

\

[coral cedar]

Just now

[formal notch]

Samsung A04e

[lean magnet]

prob not

try getting deepskycamera, it may let you expose longer

In my phone pro mode I can do 30s max but in deepskycamera I can do 130s

[floral token]

Bro most phone have pro settings

Can you come on discord voice channel? And show me your phone camera

I will guide you

[formal notch]

ik

mine dosent

i have checked

[floral token]

Damn

That sad

[formal notch]

😦

[floral token]

Check gcam?

[formal notch]

hmm

[floral token]

Or do you want to come in discord voice chat ?

[formal notch]

it isnt for samsung right?

[floral token]

Just to confirm?

[floral token]

It's for Samsung. It's googlecam

[formal notch]

okie

ill scheck it

[floral token]

First let's confirm that you have in your normal camera app or not?
I think you would have it

[formal notch]

i have checked there is no manual exposure setting

its manual ISO only

[floral token]

Okay

That's not possible lol 🤣

[formal notch]

not even manual focus lol

[formal notch]

wait ill sho u

[floral token]

It might be hidden somewhere

[formal notch]

a screenshot

[floral token]

Okay send

[formal notch]

Here

[floral token]

Go to i or setting

[formal notch]

Okie

[floral token]

Send ss

[formal notch]

Well theres nothing there that talks abt exposure

[floral token]

Then try gcam

Or wait, download procamx, it's free on play store

[formal notch]

Okie

[floral token]

For gcam you have to download from Google and all

[formal notch]

Oh

I cant go past this

Wierd right?

[lean magnet]

That's f stop

exposure time is here

[formal notch]

sry

[formal notch]

yeah

i checked

still it gets stuck at 00.3

[lean magnet]

https://www.deepskycamera.de/en/smartphones_app_nightmode.php

check if your phone is on this list

[formal notch]

it is

there

[lean magnet]

install deepskycamera then

you may be able to do longer exposures there

[formal notch]

i have it

but look

[lean magnet]

still stuck at 0.3s?

[formal notch]

yeah

[lean magnet]

😿

[formal notch]

np

[lean magnet]

you probably won't be able to do much deep sky then

[formal notch]

yeah

its only good with telescope

[lean magnet]

even then

if it can only do 0.3 seconds then your sensor definitely isn't meant to do well in low light conditions

[floral token]

Yeah

Even then you need 1 sec exposure

Maybe try learning astronomy and astrophotography until you get a rig

That's a last thing I can suggest

[formal notch]

it does fairly well (taken with my phone and 114/900 scope untracked 5mins integration time)

[zealous scaffold]

you should take darks this could actually look really good if you stack with some darks

[formal notch]

same (5mins integration)

only phone

[formal notch]

okie will try that next time i capture orion

[zealous scaffold]

you can do it now if you wanted to, just put the dust cap over your scope if it came with one, if not put something dark over it that light wont leak through, then shoot at the same exposure you were shooting at, only do around 20-50, then stack them with your data

[formal notch]

oh

ill see

[zealous scaffold]

you can also shoot flats although normally flats dont give much improvement to phone pics

[formal notch]

(i probably dont have the data anymore)

[zealous scaffold]

oof

well next time you shoot it, shoot some darks aswell

[formal notch]

each img takes 2mb

25

25mb

i have swtiched to openlivestacker now

[zealous scaffold]

surprisingly with an astrocam their not as big

[formal notch]

wh

noway

ill sho u my cam specs

[zealous scaffold]

all the lights added up are 65 gigs

i shot 1000 so

sorry i lied 45 gigs lol

i had the folders switched up

[formal notch]

thats a lot too

[zealous scaffold]

actually shoots at a slightly higher resolution than my astrocam, so thats probably why

[formal notch]

oh i seee

[zealous scaffold]

that 0.4 sec exposure time stinks. older phone?

[formal notch]

yeah

not too old

even my oppo f1f has 16sec max expo

[zealous scaffold]

oh yeah came out 2 years ago, only sells for around $100-$200 from what i can see though, im guessing its a decent phone for the general use of a phone but its camera capabilities probably arent the best

[formal notch]

yeah

[zealous scaffold]

anywho next time you shoot try and take darks and flats

darks should get rid of all the noisy hot pixels that appear over the black parts of the image

[patent zodiac]

If i were you i would invest in a star adventurer and a dslr for the price of the s23

[wild flame]

Well I already got both, I just shoot with the S22U for fun

I like pushing equipment to it's limit

Just to see what it's capable of

[formal notch]

oh i see. ill do that next time surely

[spice gale]

nice results

[lean magnet]

Darks need to be taken at the same temperature the lights were taken at

[spice gale]

finished processing conjunction photos

[iron bear]

The day seems good to test the Exos 2.
Finally, a good sky for photography after months of rain

[zealous scaffold]

Not mine, taken by @formal notch

[bronze jackal]

we're about to get some lucas bangers

[indigo abyss]

Share

Me need skies

[spice gale]

clear skies*

[zealous edge]

Bro lives in an actual paradise

[analog sable]

i dream about this

[coarse spoke]

Reprocessed this. Xiaomi 11T Pro, one hour completely untracked in Bortle 6 (didnt move the phone one bit all throughout). The gradients were so horrific it needed two GraXpert background extractions lol. Stacked in Sequator, the rest processed in Siril in GIMP.

[clear hawk]

ddi you have it resting on something or just completely laying on the ground looking straight up? thinking about trying this tonight since there is no clouds for the first time in months :D

[spice gale]

be careful on what you lay your phone

[clear hawk]

yessir

[spice gale]

what do you plan on laying your phone?

[coarse spoke]

On a tripod

[clear hawk]

probably just some sort of old shirt

that way i can ball it up if i need to angle my phone up

[spice gale]

make sure its not hard like a rock

also to be stable

[coarse spoke]

Do keep in mind that the photo had to be cropped quite a bit due to stacking artifacts. Caused by the fact that being untracked over a very long expsoure, a lot of the sky moved and didnt get the same amount of signal

[clear hawk]

thank you i appreciate it

right now i cbf carrying out and setting up my telescope so this seems like an easy test for my new phone

[spice gale]

mind if i ask what phone?

[clear hawk]

Google Pixel 8 pro

[spice gale]

nice

one of the best for astro

good luck!

[clear hawk]

hey so all of my dark frames look like this ?

thoughts ?

first run i thought maybe the room wasnt dark enough. the one above is from a pitch black room and under blankets 🤷‍♂️

[balmy ravine]

Possibly infrared lights?

[clear hawk]

its ok i figured it out

my phone was overheating + exposure time was far too long

i will cover the laser sensor though to be sure

[spice gale]

single frame?

[potent gorge]

Yes

[ivory thunder]

yummy scormpiusp

[floral token]

pleasing one

[spice gale]

clean one

[balmy ravine]

Bad contrast caused by thin clouds

[robust fog]

Let me know if that fails

May have something else you can try

[clear hawk]

I'll try it again tonight! Most of the vignette pink I discovered was my phone overheating. I did a shorter exposure and it seemed to fix it :).

I'll see if there is any noticeable difference with it covered though

[robust fog]

Vignette correction can be wiped

If needed

[clear hawk]

In post processing?

[robust fog]

Nope, at the capture level

[timid wedge]

fare well phone astro

well ig i will still do widefield phone ap from time to time soooo i wont reaaaally quit phone ap

[balmy ravine]

Moon with just my phone

[formal notch]

Insane quality for just phone

Which phone?

[balmy ravine]

S23 ultra

It's basically has built-in binoculars

[formal notch]

Yeah

Pretty cool

[clear hawk]

could you enlighten me? Also any tips of taking flats with a phone? I tried taking some again today using a bunch of different methods and every time without fail I'd get a variation of this:

I'm at a loss

stacking with these flats causes a white vignette on the corners of the final image and stacking without them causes a vignette the opposite way

[spice gale]

nothing lightroom cant fix

[balmy ravine]

Rare sun sighting in the uk

You can tell the air was all over the place

Too bad sdo has been down since november

[lean magnet]

yea that's what i did after i got my cam

[balmy ravine]

Venus: https://youtube.com/shorts/DpYXzfZXzG0

[formal notch]

stack it

[balmy ravine]

I will

[formal notch]

great

[balmy ravine]

I have no idea why the chromatic aberration is so bad, I think my phone was tilted the wrong way

[floral token]

With bino or just 10x zoom of Samsung?

[floral token]

It's not bad, in binoculars it's bad BAD

[balmy ravine]

Celestron powerseeker 60az

[floral token]

Ohh nice
Incredible resolution tho

[balmy ravine]

Look at my other videos of jupiter on my channel (same setup)

[balmy ravine]

Nvm pipp keeps failing

[floral token]

If someone is doing binoculars and phone ap, please send some of your photos (I need some motivation to go with bino ap😮‍💨)

[spice gale]

if i wpuld send ypu mine you prob will quit

maybe i would be better now

but 2 years ago...

[zealous scaffold]

we all leaving phone astro for the big '25

[floral token]

😂😭

[floral token]

Send let me see🤧

[spice gale]

ok but i warned you

first let me find them

its been 2 years

maybe i should try bino ap again

these would be the only decent onew

@floral token

[floral token]

Ay let's good dude

Well I was looking for DSO ap👽

Thought thanks for sharing

[spice gale]

no i didnt back then

[spice gale]

but to be honest i would save up for a telescope

[floral token]

Here's my try on Orion less than 2 min integration

[spice gale]

oh wowwww

better then my orion😭

[floral token]

It's starless

[spice gale]

on what software did you remove the stars?

[floral token]

No now if you try it would be very good.

[floral token]

Starnet in siril

[spice gale]

oh rly

ill check it out

this would definetly look better without stars

[timid wedge]

u can use my process

[floral token]

..

[floral token]

??

[floral token]

Yeah

[timid wedge]

nvm

[floral token]

I learned a lot yesterday

[timid wedge]

i meant like when you show someone your orion constelation shot you show that other guys process

[floral token]

Sky rocketed my processing skill

[timid wedge]

nice

[floral token]

??

Oh yeah in my phone I don't have my own try, it's on my laptop

[floral token]

I am going to try whirlpool galaxy tomorrow night

Cause after 3 am Andromeda will not be in sky

Any suggestions for galaxy ap?

[timid wedge]

not really lol i kinda suck at galaxies and i dont have any advice cuz ive never done bino ap

this is my besst galaxy shot... ew

[floral token]

No worries , I don't think people have tried bino ap other than Andromeda, Orion ,moon and sun

[floral token]

Bro it's great

[timid wedge]

walking noise

[floral token]

Need some dither and some more sessions to master

[floral token]

Yeah : (

[timid wedge]

also not enoughh int cuz sun was rising so i didnt have time

[floral token]

Hopefully I can do whirlpool galaxy 😭

[floral token]

You gotta try galaxies dude 😒

[timid wedge]

u can but no detail at that magnification

[floral token]

Yeah it's just 7x50

[timid wedge]

i also got 2minute andromeda shot

[floral token]

6.6° fov which is not great for long distance galaxy

[floral token]

Tbh I like to see people try on DSO with simple equipment

The only demotivation I am facing right now is that there is very less people who have even tried bino ap
Just astrobiscuit and some people who did and then stopped after moon or just Orion

So i am afraid 🫢

I am trying to find other people shots but getting nothing.

[timid wedge]

yh but i think if u got a dob you would get some insane pics

[timid wedge]

yh bino ap is rare

[floral token]

I am planning for dSLR set-up

But I am 100% in future I will get a dobsonian for viewing 🫡

I still haven't seen Jupiter and Saturn from any telescope

[timid wedge]

get 2 phones on the bino to get double the integration lol

[floral token]

I don't have 2 phones but that's sick idea lol

That's crazy 😂😂😭

I didn't even though even once

I am going to try for sure soon 💀

[floral token]

Thanksss❤️‍🩹

[timid wedge]

first time viewing saturn is so good

[floral token]

Yeah I bet it would be amazing first time experience

[timid wedge]

if it works it gonna be like a cheat ccode lol

[timid wedge]

borrow from your relatives

[spice gale]

nooo

just saw your name😔

also i got a question

[timid wedge]

?

[timid wedge]

i will still do widefield phone ap

[spice gale]

is planetary good with iphone?

[spice gale]

nice

check shayne

i saw today all his videos about the 15 pro and 15 pro max

one heck of a phone

[timid wedge]

its meh, ive never tried stacking a video, this is my best shot of saturn

[spice gale]

hmm

questionable results

[timid wedge]

saturn isnt optimaal to view rn cuz rings appear thin

[spice gale]

agree

but still...

maybe ill keep this samsung for planetary

[spice gale]

this mihht be the best one not rly sure

[spice gale]

ik this

[floral token]

Well yeah I will try 🫡

What about bodes and cigar galaxy?!

[timid wedge]

u will also need another phone adapter

[floral token]

Ik that

[timid wedge]

uhh idk u might juuuustt get bodes spirals

sligghtly

[floral token]

No cigar galaxy? 😭

Without it, it will lose it's uniqueness 🥲

[timid wedge]

fun fact, before doing my orion 1hour project i was thinking abt doing deerlick group, thank god i didnt

[timid wedge]

u will get it but 0 detail

[floral token]

I thought I could get the red color of cigar galaxy 😂

[subtle grove]

Deerlick group?

[timid wedge]

yes but thankfully i didnt

[timid wedge]

lol no

[floral token]

Thanks for clearing before I tried

[subtle grove]

No, what's the deerlick group

[floral token]

My as* would got demotivated if I had that much expectation

[timid wedge]

u need a filter for ha, also all galaxies except andromeda seem colorless

[timid wedge]

i thought the same

[floral token]

So without it we can't see the colours ?

Wth, why?

[timid wedge]

u need a lot of int to get colors

galaxies are all super dim except andromeda and triangulum

[timid wedge]

ha filter is for the red not the other color

[timid wedge]

its this

[subtle grove]

Oh

[floral token]

Thought with integration we can see it right? Like in 6 more inchdobsonian

So it's not impossible but it needs more integration to get colours

[timid wedge]

close up

[subtle grove]

I wish I could get those kinda pics😭😭😭

[timid wedge]

the other light drowns out the ha light so no red, except if you got liikke 100 hours of int

[timid wedge]

same

[floral token]

Damn op nick got me lil depressed today

[timid wedge]

for that red u need like 100 hours of no filtter int or 30mins of int with filter but its basically impossible with phone

[floral token]

Uhhhh😭 thought thanks for clearing 🫠

[timid wedge]

the only person who might give it a try is like lucas goncalves lol

[floral token]

Now I jealous of people who have all equipments

[floral token]

Thought I will still try galaxies

The only thing that will change is my motivation 😂

[timid wedge]

oh i have aalso tried whirlpool galaxy

but its only a 1second shot and it looks like SHIT

[floral token]

Send ittt

[timid wedge]

wait 1min

pls havee the lowest expectations for the pics im about to show you

[clear hawk]

I am going to have the highest expectations of the pics I'm about to be shown

[floral token]

Says the person who has crazy Orion nebula from phone 😮‍💨

[timid wedge]

[clear hawk]

is that live view or stacked

[timid wedge]

and also pinwheel galaxy😭

[timid wedge]

not stacked, only a 1second exposure, basically live view lol

[clear hawk]

ok that makes much more sense

[timid wedge]

https://tenor.com/view/domgcat-donkeycat-gif-24380643

[clear hawk]

I was gonna say if that's what you've got stacked with a better setup then I have no hope of even attempting to capture these

[timid wedge]

better setup? i used a 6" untracked dob andd phone😭

[bronze jackal]

tried shooting orion again

half an hour of out of focus images

[clear hawk]

perhaps I was wrong, I forgot this was the phone channel and assumed it was your new astro cam 😭

[timid wedge]

nope

[clear hawk]

I'm so sorry

[clear hawk]

absolutely post the before and after of the same targets with phone vs cam whenever you get to do it

inshallah you will have no clouds

[timid wedge]

its an old pic from the summer

[clear hawk]

ah damn

it's currently summer for me so all the really cool stuff is out but unfortunately it is also wet season so I get one clear night a month and it's always on a work night

I'm not sure my manager will accept "stayed up late for the sake of art and dopamine" as an excuse for being late

[bronze jackal]

So it turns out the first 5 minutes was in perfect focus and it slowely drifted out of focus because I just forgot to keep checking it

[ivory thunder]

here's a few from the sep lunar eclipse

as well as the day after

[bronze jackal]

I stacked the 8 minutes in focus and i'm pretty sure there is flame nebula visible very faintly

no horsehead though

I love the S22 Ultra

it's a noisy one, but it's bound to be when the focus gods ruined 70% of my subs

[balmy ravine]

I'm pretty sure the temperature changes the focus

The moon rn

[balmy ravine]

Mars, you can see a bit of surface details: https://youtu.be/fv2nhUceaxo

[indigo abyss]

What scope?

[balmy ravine]

Celestron powerseeker 60az

[formal notch]

Use some other software (like astrosurface) also try to only use one colour band (like red or blue etc)

If u want i could stack it for u

[fleet bramble]

what did you use to take the images and stack?

[robust fog]

Sorry for late reply

I'm generally fast but getting rekd by life today 🥲

Use another app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.motioncam

Disable vignette correction

Cross compare to see if it's still producing same issue

[clear hawk]

thank you so much, I actually have this app installed but I've been using deepsky camera as I'm more familiar with it :)

Also no need to apologise for late reply, I too am being rekd by life

[robust fog]

Gucci then

Use raw video or timelapse mode

Disable this

[clear hawk]

-sent by a worker with managers breathing down her neck

[robust fog]

It makes substantial difference to vignetting

[clear hawk]

huge thank you

[distant epoch]

The moon and the star spica in broad daylight

I have no clue how I photographed a star in broad daylight

[clear hawk]

I just started looking on google to see what astrophotography is like during the day specifically for stars and this is one of the questions

just in case anyone was wondering

[distant epoch]

Lmao

Here are some more photos of the star and the moon the same day, I took these a while ago

Idk how I got that quality of the moon with a phone

[clear hawk]

That is insanely good quality with a phone

[clear hawk]

what phone are you using/used for these photos?

[atomic rampart]

Its easy the star just needs to be bright enough magnitude 3 or more

[balmy ravine]

Or less* magnitude goes down with increasing brightness

My moon images from yesterday with auto white balance

[spice gale]

oh those are some nice details on the moon!

[clear hawk]

tried this and a myriad of other settings using the histogram to try and centre the peaks etc etc. I think my data set is just cooked

including my lights

but no matter what I do I get bad vignetting on my flats

Tried it on my partners phone too. same issues. Different light sources, different settings, different apps.

I think I might just be cursed idk

[distant epoch]

Samsung A13

[atomic rampart]

Yeah mb

[vague shard]

Ping me when you post pics

[floral token]

Oh okay

@vague shard 2 min integration

[vague shard]

Damn

Pretty good

I should get bino ngl

[floral token]

🫡 thanks

Remember it's binoculars not just phone

[spice gale]

wow no noise

[floral token]

It's starless that's why

With stars it's not pretty 😬

[spice gale]

its better i belive

wait in 5 min ill open my laptop

[floral token]

🫡

[spice gale]

will you be able to guide me to getting starless?

[floral token]

Right now I am in gym but later I will guide you DW

But till then I will suggest some videos

[spice gale]

ok thanks

[floral token]

Watch that first
Nebula photo siril

Nebula photo Starnet

[spice gale]

ok ill check it

[floral token]

Wait

Watch his try on Polaris dust

He will also cover other basic things also

And I am sure you will understand it

[spice gale]

ok

apreciate the help

[balmy ravine]

Mars

[balmy ravine]

you cant open mp4 in that, here is the video: https://www.mediafire.com/file/6p94y6qe0yeywht/20250107_165852.mp4/file

[formal notch]

Okie

Ill trt it myself

[robust fog]

RIP

[formal notch]

thru 114/900 scope and phone untracked

[dusk crow]

Very good for a 114newton

Is the mirror spherical?

[formal notch]

at 900mm fl, it dosent matter much

both would perform almost equally well

[dusk crow]

Ok good

[coral cedar]

This is probrably my highest image quality of mars with phone

South pole and north surface pretty visible

Its just my limit of my telescope and my telephoto of my phone

[floral token]

It's great that you are maximizing York set-up 🫡

[coral cedar]

Thank you

Looks greattt!

[balmy ravine]

Very similar to mine, what is the diameter of yours?

[coral cedar]

80mm

Not really that big

[balmy ravine]

This was with 60mm

[coral cedar]

Wow

Thats a such nice detail over there

What phone do you use?

[balmy ravine]

Samsung galaxy s23 ultra

[coral cedar]

Damnn flagship phone

Nice one over there

Todays moon

[balmy ravine]

You can see the reddish colour of that one part

[coral cedar]

Yess, idk why it make it purple, maybe its just my phone auto temperature

[coral cedar]

Dude yessirr

Craters are visible

Very sharp

Herese mine with 6x zoom

Lmao

My camera has only 2x telephoto, and i kinda force it

[balmy ravine]

Nope that part of the moon is very slightly brown

[spice gale]

the kangaroo crater!

couldnt reach focus

[coral cedar]

Yeahhh

Little bit brown and purple

[proper totem]

moon with iphone 16 pro in 15x video mode then screenshotted

[balmy ravine]

12mp 5x, here is my 10mp 10x

[ivory thunder]

do u have one of those phones with 100x zoo.

zoom*

[coral cedar]

No

10x ma,

Max

[ivory thunder]

wait how do u get Mars then
do u shoot through a telescope

[floral token]

Yeah

[ivory thunder]

ah

[floral token]

It's impossible to get mars in just phone this clear

If you only have phone, try wide field astrophography

[ivory thunder]

b7: mmm, light pollution

[floral token]

Don't worry, practice it atleast rather than doing nothing

Try to choose target which are not near horizon

[iron bear]

[spice gale]

what target

[iron bear]

I’m not sure yet. I think I’ll go for M46
Here it’s Bortle 3-4, but there’s a moon tonight. I want to test the mount.
It’s my first time using the Exos 2.

[spice gale]

the moynt looks so clean

good luck tonight

[balmy ravine]

9 Tauri and the tiniest bit of earthshine

Jupiter

[iron bear]

Liveview

[somber lantern]

What Barlow?

[floral token]

Dang

[iron bear]

First light

55s ISO 200. No guiding, Just tracking

With moon

[potent shore]

Imagine without

[balmy ravine]

What diameter? Also can you do this type of live view on the free version?

[floral token]

2 min integration Lucas with 7x50 binoculars and phone

[zealous edge]

They should make an astronomy cam that uses the Xiaomi 12's camera, just a little device half the size of a phone that only includes the camera and a 1:1 sized screen interface that you can link to other devices, so it's easier to use it as an astronomy camera without having the back half of the phone creating unbalanced weight

[iron bear]

114mm and yes.

The Samsung night mode processing made Orion looks cursed

[zealous edge]

I love that blue color your OTA has, the way it contrasts with the red of the finder-scope

[coral cedar]

Of course i shoot with telescope

Imposibble tho without telescope

[formal notch]

GSO 2x

[robust fog]

This?

😁

[lean magnet]

hey give lucas his phone back thats not nice

[robust fog]

But he gave it to me as a hand me down 😞 He's already onto the JWST AI Prism Zoom

[lean magnet]

by ai you mean built in blurx... right?

😨

[dreamy pebble]

What did you shoot this through?

[balmy ravine]

So about 3.61x the amount of light as mine

[balmy ravine]

Why are no stars visible?

[balmy ravine]

https://youtube.com/shorts/32Sr_7huf4Y

[floral token]

starlesss

[dusky crane]

My diy 50mm telescope scope 10 pounds cost

Orion also

[wind spoke]

i need to see this with an actual astrocam 😭

[dusky crane]

Maybe in the future

[potent shore]

@iron bear What telescope do you use?

[ivory thunder]

br (Mars n gemini)

[spice gale]

light pollution goes BRRRRR

[gusty zodiac]

holy light pollution batman

[somber lantern]

I think it's a 114/900 on an exos 2 with onstep

[ivory thunder]

b7 + moon nearby

[potent shore]

You know what company it is?

[potent shore]

?

[ivory thunder]

.

[spice gale]

ouch

[somber lantern]

I don't think it matters

All 114/900s are pretty much the same

[potent shore]

Just curious

[somber lantern]

At most the color of the tube changes

[somber lantern]

No idea tho

[spice gale]

sw

i would say

[potent shore]

Alright I see

[spice gale]

oh wait its not

hmm

something blue

maybe he painted it

[somber lantern]

Older skywatchers were blue so maybe

[spice gale]

its Meade

probably

[iron bear]

Toya/Shilba 114/900mm

And Exos 2 now

Only available in Brazil and Argentina probably

[iron bear]

Leo triplet

[distant epoch]

Single frame

[distant epoch]

Processed it into a mineral moon

[spice gale]

no way you used a phonr to take this

[distant epoch]

I also took this

No where near as cool as the entire moon photo I took

[distant epoch]

I did, I guess it was an incredibly lucky shot because I think it's the best one I've taken

[distant epoch]

Can anyone tell me what these black dots are

I have no clue

[spice gale]

it does look incredible

tell me more ab the image

[distant epoch]

Like what?

[spice gale]

setup

how many frames

[atomic rampart]

Looks like a crater with a shadow

[balmy ravine]

Nope look on stellarium, it seems to be way darker than it should be

[balmy ravine]

Possibly artifact from the noise reduction

[atomic rampart]

Probably that

[atomic rampart]

Its the same crater as the one in the image

Yk the one he circled

The blacks are probably more exaggerated in his image due to how his phone or he edited the image

[formal notch]

lemme cross check with my image

here

my fov is small

[echo shell]

Lmao

Isn’t that galaxies

[distant epoch]

Strange, wonder why it's so dark in my photo

[distant epoch]

One frame

Setup is literally just me raw dogging it lol, just a dob and me trying to line up my phone with the eyepiece

Like I said, very lucky

[vague shard]

I was planning to investing in a equitorial mount and motorizing it , what are the basics do I need to know to do that, what are the things needed for it ?

[spice gale]

the colors are unbelivable

good job

[distant epoch]

Thanks

[zealous edge]

not bad for a first, considering the equipment used

[dreamy pebble]

One of my very first attempts at astrophotography in 2021. Taken with an LG V60 (20s exposure, ISO 3200) through an Svbony Redline 20mm and Celestron C5+

I remember taking this shot and being totally blown away that my phone could pick up that much nebulosity

Ah I was also using an Svbony UHC

[zealous edge]

Is that the Lagoon Nebula or the Carina Nebula?

or something else?

[dreamy pebble]

Yeah it's the Lagoon

[zealous edge]

not bad

[dreamy pebble]

I do aim to capture every Messier object in a single exposure with a smartphone at some point

[gusty zodiac]

you should prob start with the open clusters

plus there's a ton of them during winters

and they're ez to capture

[dreamy pebble]

So far I've done M5, M8, M15, M16, M17, M27, M31/32, M42/43, M45, M57, M45, M81, M82, and I may have done M110 at some point but I can't find the image

There's M82 lol

[gusty zodiac]

nice

[dreamy pebble]

You can even see the massive HII region in it

[gusty zodiac]

M74 gonna be the final boss lol

[spice gale]

M40!!!!!

[spice gale]

wow this is amazing

[dreamy pebble]

Lunar halo (probably circumscribed given the uneven brightness)

[floral token]

It's just halo you can even see without phone but with phone it becomes more prevalent

[elder birch]

Jupiter with Io peeking out, on iPhone13, with a SkyMax127 and AZGTi.
(x950, 0.005s, ISO 200 in AstroShader)

[lean magnet]

wait astroshader can do planets?

[formal notch]

Ask lucas

[formal notch]

I think its cause of clouds and TIR

Pretty simple physics behimd it if this is why its happeneing

[lean magnet]

get an exos2 or eq5 and an onstep kit

adding the onstep kit is easy, plenty of youtube videos on how to do it if you arent sure

[zealous edge]

Is this manually tracked using the realignment function, or does the setup use a tracking mount?

[elder birch]

Well it’s just a straight stack, not lucky imaging

[elder birch]

Yes it was using a skywatcher AZGTi.
At 120x magnification it’s really at the limit of usability (well mine was anyway - wobbling all over the place)

[spice gale]

you use iphone?

@keen quail

[halcyon rune]

Astrophotography mode

You can choose short, mid, long integration tims

It worked for me

[ivory thunder]

the only virtue clouds have given me is to let me take pictures of the sun

[zealous edge]

nice, always neat when the clouds provide us with filterless solar astronomy. Gotta be really REALLY careful though

[ivory thunder]

same day different time lol

[dreamy pebble]

I remember this one time I was in Virginia Beach and our skies were filled with smoke from swamp fires. This was around solar maximum and you could see a few sunspots naked eye

[ivory thunder]

more moon shenanigans

[zealous edge]

Remember a while ago when the Canadian wildfires filled the east coast region of the US with smoggy atmosphere? It was so thick that you could I look at the sun and it would appear a dark orange in color.

The smog had basically made a naturally occurring filter akin to the ones used in solar eclipse glasses.

I got this photo of the event, just using my Rebel T7 Canon with a long range lense, no filters at all.

Oh come on

there we go

[balmy ravine]

Timelapse of morocco with orion

[stable sundial]

5 mins basically full moon to the left on an iPad 10th generation astroshader

[golden summit]

IR reflection?

[balmy ravine]

Yes even though I set it to manual focus

Why can deepskycamera only take 12mp raw when my phone can take 50mp raw

[ivory thunder]

very yummy but god damn that is some running noise

[stable sundial]

I’ll fix that with more int

And it’s a goddamn iPad camera

[ivory thunder]

fair

[somber lantern]

You can email them and ask them to add support, I only had 1s exposure support but then I emailed them my phone model and next patch I had full 32s support

[prisma raft]

how good is deepskycamera

[stable sundial]

Amazing, just not the price

[formal notch]

Nice (tho i use openlivestacker)

[ivory thunder]

yum

[dusk crow]

Venus at Daylight with s22 ultra 10x the sun was still high on sky

I capture this with the phone of my friend he didn’t believe me at first.😅

[spice gale]

its pretty good if your phone cant shoot raw

[prisma raft]

yeah mine can not shoot raw

[spice gale]

then if you want to stack dso you should install it

[distant epoch]

Yet another lucky image from last night lol

[prisma raft]

already did

[spice gale]

also gotta mention its REALLY hard to learn

i mean not rly but its much different from simple camera

[formal notch]

wats your max exposure?

[prisma raft]

10 seconds

[formal notch]

can i exchange my phone wiith yours?

plz

[prisma raft]

what phone do you have

[formal notch]

Samsung A04e

max exposure is literally only 1/3 seconds

i tried every way

[prisma raft]

dang i own an a55

[formal notch]

well... enjoy

anyways i stick with openlivestacker

(even when attaching my phone with telescope)

cause there is no lag in capture time

DSC takes 1.5 sec to save the 1/3 sec sub.

[balmy ravine]

Does this count?

[spice gale]

wow

no way you captured this trough a phone

[balmy ravine]

Mine?

[spice gale]

yes

looks amazing

especially the moon

[balmy ravine]

Literally just the samsung galaxy s23 ultra

[spice gale]

wow

[cosmic tendon]

Doesn’t samsung use ai to enhance photo’s nowadays?

Or is that another brand? Hm, googling…

[balmy ravine]

No only if you enable a certain setting

Here is the raw

[cosmic tendon]

You need to actively disable it. (https://wccftech.com/how-to/how-to-disable-fake-photos-on-galaxy-s23-ultra/amp/ ). No problem for me and you’re apparently aware.

[balmy ravine]

This?

What is would be concerned about are "expert raw" images which aren't really fake but they have sharpening and noise reduction applied automatically

[grizzled lance]

Quite impressed from s23U

Full moon aswell
20sec exposure 300 iso 3x telephoto

Hold on lemme send it so you don't have to download

Dc degraded the reso a lot

[balmy ravine]

Moon and Mars conjunction

[balmy ravine]

Contrast adjusted

[zealous edge]

Woah that's beautiful

[clear hawk]

what is up gamers

could having too high of an ISO on my lights create vignetting?

[floral token]

more like it will be all washed up

[clear hawk]

I was doing a full sky image and had it at 1600 because I'm silly, extremely bad vignetting and the flats just made it worse (possible I messed up the flats too)

[floral token]

i woundnt recommend if you have light dome near you like b5 up( go for 800) and if you have lower than bortle 5 go for 1600

[clear hawk]

awesome thank you

[floral token]

go for 800 or try 1250 or something

1600 is very bad if there is light dome

also try to have more round and focused star than just lengthy exposure

my best bet is 10 seconds

for default 1x zoom on phone and tripod

[clear hawk]

I noticed when I was doing my bias frames I had extremely bad vignetting on those cause my phone was overheating. I redid them at lower exposure to stop the heat and it seemed to work. I'm wondering if my phone was overheating during my lights (had it setup to auto take them (10 sec exposures) for a good 10 minutes straight) and that could be the cause?

I cannot for the life of me figure out why I have such bad vignetting when my old crappy phone didn't have an issue at all even when it was overheating

[floral token]

i didnt take any calibration frames

i think its not worth it for phone only cause i was in bortle 5

if i had higher than 5 i would take calibration frames

[clear hawk]

ah ok makes sense

I'm in bortle 7 ish

[floral token]

then do calibration frames.

make sure to have good focus

send me your some fav photos so i can see

[clear hawk]

yeah I had bias, flats, and darks

[clear hawk]

I don't have a picture of the one in currently having issues with but I have a before and after of my old phone and my current

[floral token]

thats fine send it , i will not judge lol

[clear hawk]

first image is new phone

[floral token]

its great

you have a telescope??

[clear hawk]

single take 2 seconds exposures for both

[floral token]

i think you can go with 1600 iso then

i thought you only have phone and tripod

[clear hawk]

yes! Starsense 8" Dobsonian :)

I think those are both around the 1500ish I can't remember

but yeah I haven't tried stacking with my new phone outside of the one I'm currently having issues with

this was a 30 odd minute stack from my old phone

no flats, I think just darks and bias

[floral token]

great

[clear hawk]

thats pretty much all I've got unfortunately

[floral token]

nah its good stuff

[clear hawk]

it's forever cloudy and in my so called "sunshine state"

[floral token]

heres my fav photo till now

7x50 binoculars and phone. 7 min integration. cropped

[clear hawk]

through binoculars is crazy

[clear hawk]

what are the logistics of doing it through binoculars? I assume that you have them attached to a tripod?

I can't even imagine how annoying it would be aiming and manually tracking for longer exposures either

[floral token]

its crazy lol

just having good collimation with phone and binoculars is soo frustrating

[distant epoch]

No clue how I managed to photograph Mars like that with a phone lol

My luck has been off the charts the past week

Single frame

[dusty swift]

The nighttime photos I got tonight and the daytime photos I got a few days ago, all are used with some telephoto lens thing which is just 15x zoom without that much loss of quality

[echo shell]

Holy

[dapper vault]

How did you do that

[lunar beacon]

OpenLiveStacker author asks....

How many users are around? Are you using built in camera only or also connect cameras like ASI, ToupTek etc?

[balmy ravine]

Do what?

Will this be visible? It's bright but it's close to the sun

[floral token]

Can we see the comet?

[balmy ravine]

This is all I've got, 90% sure it's a plane

[balmy ravine]

egg

[distant epoch]

Even I'm not entirely sure lol, just focused my telescope on the moon and put my phone up to it and took a bunch of pictures and fished out the best one

[dusk crow]

Jupiter with my 114/500 telescope and phone

[trim notch]

is this the 130/900 version and are you happy with it?

[balmy ravine]

Moonlight on the mountains is not a bright today

Even though the magnitude only changed by 0.05

I think it's too early

[somber lantern]

I think that's the 76/900

Which is smaller

Me personally I wouldn't get the 130/900 too big for the eq2, 114/900 is already it's limit

[formal notch]

Built in

But i cant get it to stack properly

Derotation dosemt do much effect

So from now on i put my phone on an eq mpunt and do it thaat way

Does it need really bright stars to stack?

[formal notch]

For my telescope-phone setup it works BRILLIANTLY
here is an image taken thru your software vs thru capturing with DSC and stacking with another software

right is Openlivestacker

[lean magnet]

i think you did something wrong

the dsc side should not be that bad

even if you only got like 30 seconds

[formal notch]

its not a prob of DSC

its my phone

it can only take 1/3 sec exposures

max

[lean magnet]

oh yea the dsc delay issue would ruin it then

[formal notch]

DSC takes 1 sec

[formal notch]

yeah

exactl

[lean magnet]

that's why i only use dsc for widefield now

i can do 15s

[formal notch]

nice

[lean magnet]

takes like 22s to capture

or smth

the delay is really bad idk why

[formal notch]

chat

what

why lol

[formal notch]

sae

[lean magnet]

no idea

[formal notch]

same

whats your resolution?

[lean magnet]

longer exposures take more delay time ig

[formal notch]

oh

its not resolution dependent?

[lean magnet]

4032x3024 i think

[formal notch]

oh

similar to mine

[lean magnet]

it seems to take less time when I do shorter exposures

[formal notch]

i see

[lean magnet]

I'd prefer if it would save to ram and then save to storage, that may fix the delay

[formal notch]

ye

[patent verge]

Captured Venus 3 hours before sunset, using an iPhone 15 through 8inch dob

[balmy ravine]

Saturn and venus last night

[dapper vault]

Which phone

[distant epoch]

Samsung A13

[balmy ravine]

Peakfinder overlay

[balmy ravine]

If it's the lack of chromatic aberration you are surprised about, it's the telescope that is limiting

[left coyote]

Please don’t doxx yourself

[balmy ravine]

Not my house

[balmy ravine]

Orion with binoculars

[plush palm]

Untracked?

[lunar beacon]

Do you use reduced ROI with smartphone? See OpenLiveStacker looks globally on the image - so if "eyepiece circle" appears it would lock on it instead of content.

So I suggest use smaller ROI to prevent issues with stacking.

Derotaion is for alt-az only

[fleet vector]

2 photos, one that i used in astroshader and one i just randomly took a 30 sec exposure

ignore jupiter having a beam 💀

what are some good astro photography apps for IOS?

[balmy ravine]

Yes

Single frames

[balmy ravine]

That means dirt on your camera

[subtle grove]

Moon and his little friend

[subtle grove]

Were

[prisma raft]

dang seriously?, my a13 could barely get that much good of an image

[dusk crow]

AstroShader

The best app at all

#1047623389898088579 for more info

[balmy ravine]

Marrakesh

[fleet vector]

ok so im using a good one

[somber lantern]

That's very useful thanks

[formal notch]

yeah i did use reduced roi

(2/3)

[formal notch]

yeah i use reduced roi for telescope setup (it works great)
but for widefield, when i look into preview i can only see one star (irl i can easily see abt 5 stars in the same fov). I tried different combinetions, the best one beign mono (i can see more stars with it in preview and i get better stacks with it)

but mono is mono. cant get a colour img out of it

[zealous edge]

Jupiter got turned into a Pulsar, actually looks really cool

[dapper vault]

How to fix tht

[balmy ravine]

It's usually the eyepiece that's the problem, get a better eyepiece ig?

Mine has noticeable chromatic aberration but not too bad

[formal notch]

he probably black and whhited it

[balmy ravine]

Nope you can see colour in the image

[formal notch]

hmmm

tru

its there at the edge

but

waaaay less to be noticed

it looks more like a collimation thing than a CA issue

[coral cedar]

I have chromatic abbertion also due to my cheap lens

Actually you want to fix it in lightroom

There's a fiture that can remove chromatic abbertion

But its not that perfect, so what i do i go to color mixer and see what color in there and desaturate it

[dapper vault]

Ok

[distant epoch]

Its still got chromatic aberration, I just helped it with Lightroom

[halcyon rune]

Hey guys! Is there a chance that the a54 will get expert raw with one ui 7

[balmy ravine]

Don't use expert raw its rubbish

[halcyon rune]

If you can use it correctly it is good

Taken with expert raw

30 min

But I need to know that ui 7 will bring it to the a54 or not? I'm about to crash out if we're still not getting it

[lunar beacon]

See it is up to camera quality and what settings it allows.

Honestly I have never been very successful with smartphone camera but I have seen many managed to create amazing images with good camera phones.
These usually have raw image support and allow long exposures.

I personally use ZWO and ToupTek cameras since they give much better signal. And

[lunar beacon]

I started OpenLiveStacker with external cameras USB Video Class, ZWO, ToupTek, DSLR and only last one was Android internal camera

[balmy ravine]

What bortle? I feel like you could get better results with regular raw

I tried expert raw 2 minute exposure and it was about the same as a few seconds regular night mode

[sterile parrot]

Im 7-8

[subtle grove]

Bro bought an eyepiece from aliexpress💀😭

RIP

[prisma raft]

im wondering if a55 would get expert raw or something

[fleet vector]

what are good settings for nebulae for astro shader

both andromeda and orion only

i aint got no good tele

[coral cedar]

What i know A series of samsung will never get expert raw fiture

I saw a forum posted about expert raw on A series of samsung

[prisma raft]

actually no thats true

i saw one too about it

i only want the a55 to be able to take things in raw and not just jpeg

[coral cedar]

Mine a 53

[floral token]

Some of the Samsung old phone does not have raw format

Very sad

[prisma raft]

the a55 came out in 2024

[coral cedar]

Maybe if you want buy the note series, fold, and S series

[prisma raft]

its a bit stupid how raw feature isnt even on it

[floral token]

Didn't know lol