Phone Astrophotography

[balmy ravine]

Venus

[balmy ravine]

More accurate white balance

[grizzled lance]

This was my try a week ago

[grizzled lance]

What scope do you use? And phone

[balmy ravine]

Celestron powerseeker 60az, Samsung galaxy s23 ultra

[grizzled lance]

Quite impressive for 60 az

If it had no chromatic aberration then it'll look real good

[dreamy pebble]

One of my attempts at the Swan Nebula in 2021

[zealous edge]

Oh nice, acquisition details?

like what telescope, phone, integration time, bortle, etc?

[dreamy pebble]

Celestron C5+, forgot what eyepiece, Svbony UHC filter, 20s, Bortle 7 (moonless)

[zealous edge]

Oh wow, that's only 20 seconds??

[dreamy pebble]

Yeah with an LG V60

RIP LG my beloved

[zealous edge]

that's pretty incredible tbh, i figure the swan nebula is relatively bright?

[dreamy pebble]

Yeah, I'd say if I had to rank the nebulae in the northern hemisphere, the Swan is the third brightest

Orion Nebula being #1 and the Lagoon being #2

I can't wait to pull out the SV240 on the summer nebulae

Lagoon Nebula with the same setup

And there's the Eagle

I cannot see the Eagle nebula in my B7 skies without a filter

[spice gale]

Galaxy season is finally here with some disappointing results in the first night

[lean magnet]

Try m51

I got this with 5 minutes

[spice gale]

Incredible honestly

But rn its too low

[lean magnet]

nah not really

i took that late

galaxies were leaving, it was around same height it is rn

[spice gale]

Well the lower stars of the ursa major constellation were low, and right in front there is a big shop with annoying parking lights

So untill the constellation will rise ill try photographing something else

Also i got a question for you

[lean magnet]

?

imma go to sleep ill answer tomorrow

[spice gale]

What phone are you using?

[lean magnet]

s20+

[spice gale]

Oh ok

[distant epoch]

I also attempted to take a photo of Venus, but it's surprisingly hard to

At least with my phone and telescope

[grizzled lance]

Damn b7??

[distant epoch]

Made a composite of the moon and venus

[ivory thunder]

mon

30x zoom ver

[modest fern]

(Out of my class window)

[zealous edge]

Damn, what telescope?

that's nuts for only five minutes

[lean magnet]

heritage 150p

[zealous edge]

oh damn, I didn't think a small truss tube like that could even hold the weight of a phone

[lean magnet]

no it can hold stuff completely fine

it's not the trusses it's the focuse

focuser

it cannot hold the weight of a phone, focusing is extremely hard because i have to get focus while the phone is on the bottom side of the focuser

if it's on the top the weight of the phone spins it

[zealous edge]

Ah ok

I managed this with my Starblast dob, and i thought this was pretty alright for 6.5 minutes...

the usual equipment and processing

It is my first ever shot of M51, to be fair

I'd like to get a better image, but I'd also like to try getting the Leo Triplet and/or M81 & M82

[lean magnet]

my mobile data is too slow to load the image😿

or send this message

[lean magnet]

this was on a really good night though

im bortle 7-8 but that night it was like b6

a lot of people had their lights off iy

ig

[zealous edge]

Oh nice

There should be a "lights out" day (or multiple) every month, where everyone around the world turns their lights off at a specific time, so the night sky can be seen and appreciated in its full splendor

[lean magnet]

there would also be the people who would spend like thousands on the brightest lights they can and turn them on when its lights out day

when you try to have something nice someone will try and ruin it and when its something like the sky that you don't own you can't stop them

[zealous edge]

Yeah, true

I just don't know who would actually go out of their way to ruin such a specific niche thing

It'd be pointless

[lean magnet]

and that is how some people are

[dusk crow]

Also happens to me! it was heavy cloudy at the other side of the City and the light pollution went down. I could Easily see the Milky Way Galaxy with my eyes in B6

[tardy rain]

mine just arrived, now you got my hopes up with that photo 😩

If you have any tips im all ears, didnt even try it yet and im hoping to get some pics but im super newbie

[lean magnet]

it'll take some time

that picture was extremely painful to get

i don't use the heritage bc it's good i use it bc it's the only longer focal length scope i have

[tardy rain]

ye i hear the focuser was ass

[lean magnet]

it's perfectly fine for visual

absolutely hate it for ap

[tardy rain]

i got a phone adapter aswell with the scope, ill check how it goes soon

did you take pics with the default phone app?

[lean magnet]

deepskycamera

don't use the default camera app

I've seen some people here liking openlivestacker but i don't think it works on my phone

I can't set the exposure time higher than like 150ms on it

[tardy rain]

guess i only have astroshader in IOS

Lets me slide exposure time, focus and ISO

[balmy ravine]

Cloudy today

[distant epoch]

Moon with Earthshine and Venus composition

[fleet vector]

https://tenor.com/view/look-up-scared-willem-dafoe-gif-17761333

[distant epoch]

This is possibly the most detailed moon photo I have taken with a phone

[lean magnet]

Tip for next time, lower your exposure a bit

You should always slightly underexpose when doing planetary since some bright features may be clipped

Like rn you have a really bright crater that is clipped pure white

[distant epoch]

Yeah idk why its so exposed, I have the ISO to 100, the lowest I could get it to go

[lean magnet]

Lower your exposure time a bit

[distant epoch]

My phone doesn't have that option

Trust me, I've looked everywhere for it

[lean magnet]

you don't have a pro video mode?

[distant epoch]

I do, but my phone isn't new enough or something

[lean magnet]

my phone is 5 generations old and has it

[distant epoch]

This is what it looks like for me

[lean magnet]

s20

[distant epoch]

I have an A13

[lean magnet]

ah that explains it

yeah samsung is pretty silly with the budget phones and doesn't give simple features they easily could've given, like this

[distant epoch]

Normally it's not that bright, so I'm not sure what the issue was

[lean magnet]

try to find an external app that allows you to have proper pro mode

[distant epoch]

This is with the same settings

[dusk crow]

Only the main camera app

I have some free apps and I can do anything

Best of all AstroShader no android have it only IOS

[lean magnet]

that's not an iphone

[faint cypress]

Ring Nebula and Jupiter

[spice gale]

Nice

[grizzled lance]

What scope and phone?

Looks decent

[faint cypress]

Celestron Nexstar 8SE (On equatorial wedge)

2x Barlow for Jupiter

iPhone 14 Pro with the camera app AstroShader

[spice gale]

How did you film jupiter, im having a hard time focusing and everything else

[balmy ravine]

Do you have a phone adaptor?

[spice gale]

Yes

[cyan island]

Do you android/samsung users use the default camera app or are better options available?

[balmy ravine]

Depends, my phone has a higher resolution using the default app

[bronze jackal]

I bought ProShot but i've not had much luck with it

though i've only tried using it a handful of times i probably just didn't get some settings right

[cyan island]

ProShot looks to have a good set of options, wil do some more research on it, thanks 👍

[bronze jackal]

the in app previews are low res so its hard to tell if you took a good image and its slightly inconvenient to have to keep flipping between gallery and back

but that's probably a limitation of all third party camera apps

[scenic glen]

Whatcha think?

[modest fern]

My favorite pictures I’ve made of the moon by far!

[scenic glen]

yea , they nice

[balmy ravine]

🥛

[dusk crow]

Leo trip galaxy’s only 10min exposure with my 114/500 telescope and IPhone 13.

[lean magnet]

nice but whys hamburger so dim

when i imaged them it was not that dim compared to the other 2

[dusk crow]

Idk I even do ISO 32000 with 1sek exposure

I probably do something always wrong and it make everything worse

[balmy ravine]

Someone ate part of it

[spice gale]

Default for planetary and deepskycamera for dso

[robust fog]

We got better android options 😁 It can be a jungle but we got far superior capabilities for third party apps. Example, MotionCam - which in next versions will get in app luminance normalization, so if you shoot a day to night raw timelapse for example it will smooth the exposure changes on its own before you have to edit it
https://youtu.be/9zxqaCJuob8?si=_EFSCJgxlugKSk_e

[robust fog]

There's a plethora for photos, videos and raw images

[robust fog]

@bronze jackal proshot is good but more meant for general photography

You are best off with other apps for astro, Deep Sky Camera is the workhorse of choice for many

[somber lantern]

I use openlivestacker personally

So far it's been giving me better results than taking the frames and stacking them on dss/siril

There was also a small difference in processing of course, but the first one is from openlivestacker and the second from dss, both processed by me in siril

I only use the default camera for planetary, I actually just screen record the live view, I can't take raw video so there's not much use to trying to get an actual video anyway

[robust fog]

Yes you can

If your device can shoot raw images

Then raw video is possible as well

[grizzled lance]

Guys I bought a 40mm eyepiece from aliexpress I'll let yk if it's a scam or not someone told me to buy it few months ago fogort who

[balmy ravine]

Edited to make it look like SDO image

[ivory thunder]

pink sun pink sun

[balmy ravine]

Yeah my solar filter blocks a little more green light than red and blue light

[ivory thunder]

is the sun strawberry flavour now

[somber lantern]

Wait really?

[robust fog]

Yeah man 🙂

It's available on Camera2API, raw stream

Only MotionCam has implemented raw video but nothing is stopping others

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

[zealous edge]

Betelgeuse, my favorite Red-SuperGiant star.

Don't go supernova just yet.

[zinc heart]

Jupiter last night, (not my best image).

[spice gale]

No way thats only abailable on android

[robust fog]

Yes, MotionCam specially is android exclusive

[spice gale]

[robust fog]

There's something for raw video on iOS but... It's far inferior

Less mature

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sr-raw-cinema-camera/id6590601552

Subscription only and limited device support

Also resolution caps

[spice gale]

So the default would be better

[robust fog]

Hard to say, never tried it

[spice gale]

But i cant focus or choose iso and things to capture the planets

[robust fog]

Should have manual mode

But again, it's hard to test

[spice gale]

Hmm

I can only choose exposure

-2 to 2

[robust fog]

I honestly have little data on it

[spice gale]

Oh ok

[balmy ravine]

Yesterday

[balmy ravine]

i have figured out why the colour of the moon in images is different

[dreamy pebble]

That is amazing

[faint cypress]

Thank you!

Do you guys happen to use this app?

It’s way better than just the default camera app trust

[dusk crow]

AstroSahder is the best 10/10

[opaque tundra]

The creator is among us in the server

[faint cypress]

Oh who?

[zealous edge]

-# a... among us?

[zealous edge]

their name here is astrshdr, I won't ping em but that's their server name

[faint cypress]

Astrshdr you the 🐐

[halcyon rune]

Ios?

[fleet vector]

yea its on ios

[thorny bobcat]

m86, m84 and some nearby galaxies on my pixel 8pro

[spice gale]

Nice

[ivory thunder]

when my handle is jewelled

[ivory thunder]

we yoink that sploink

[fading bobcat]

These are not my best images by far, but was just messing around with my phone and the svbony 48p and just having fun. I know it can do lunar, but seeing Venus was a spectacle in itself!

[fading bobcat]

This might be the most I've seen the abberation from the 48p, but not disappointed.

[zealous edge]

Well, if we're all sending moon pics

Single exposure, the usual equipment.

[dreamy pebble]

Requis fingleberry strikes again

[grizzled lance]

Best moon shot I could get 😔

Red chased by atmosphere

Caused

[lean magnet]

did you get early access to the lunar eclipse

[grizzled lance]

😂

[ivory thunder]

he preordered the moon

[fading bobcat]

Is it smoke?

Like I've seen wildfires cause the sky to be a bit red, but don't know if that's the case here?

[formal notch]

Pretty cool app, i tested it out and the results were better than DSC. The shutter lag is waay less.

[robust fog]

It's shutter lag free

It captures raw stream completely so can be captured with a gap or no gap if you prefer

The disadvantage is DSC uses a bypass method for long exposures which Motioncam doesn't

So DSC can override limiters on some devices via a secret sauce exploit

Still, of your device works with MC, it's far superior

[grizzled lance]

It happened last time when some wild fire happened in Canada

I captured it with my old telescope it looked like this

Mid pics

[balmy ravine]

Guess my phone is better than a telescope lol

[grizzled lance]

It was a de collimated 80/800 reflector 😭

[grizzled lance]

Still crazy pic tho that's looking niceee

[dusk crow]

Venus and Mercury though my telescope🔭 114/500 6mm eyepiece and 2x Barlow =166x magnification

[ivory thunder]

mon

[balmy ravine]

I still need to post my lunar liberation timelapse here

[ivory thunder]

also separate pics

[balmy ravine]

Here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/telescopes/comments/1fsudqc/12_day_timelapse_of_the_moon/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Beware the first few gifs are fast

[balmy ravine]

With just phone?

[ivory thunder]

yep
s20 ultra

[dusk crow]

My new IPhone 20 Pro max is so good, it have a 226 mega pixels camera

Ok the mega pixels are to Creazy it destroys the Jpg data because of the size

[formal notch]

Yeah, SNR matters more

[balmy ravine]

What is it actually?

[grizzled lance]

226mp damn

[balmy ravine]

The setup

[grave narwhal]

Thats the photo of lateksy comet that i took in 2024 summer

[tardy rain]

I know its garbage but here is my first photo ever on a scope (heritage 150, iPhone 13)

[timid wedge]

lol thats how i felt exactly when ii upgraded from phone to ares c pro

guys i have voices in my head telling me to do one last phone astro pic.... idk if i should do it, it feels like i have some unfinished buisness to do, like my phone and dob astro journey isnt over, what should i do?

[ivory thunder]

mon

[tardy rain]

can you show me some of your pics? also got a 6' dob and im just beggining the hobby

[zealous scaffold]

try a MW widefield pic with ur phone if u havent yet

[spring viper]

it's worth it, just 30 min of exposure with moon in bortle 4

No vignette, No artifacts, no eyepiece problems

30min with my phone in bortle 2

[timid wedge]

i have

[tardy rain]

That was with a phone? Insane

[timid wedge]

yeah

[balmy ravine]

Lucas 2.0

[balmy ravine]

moon hdr attempt

oh my compression

[timid wedge]

hell no, he is 100 times better

[spice gale]

Tracked?

[timid wedge]

no

[spice gale]

Hiw

How

Realigned?

[timid wedge]

yes

[spice gale]

Idk why it doesn’t work properly, the realignment

[timid wedge]

i told u before, u have to be extremely precise

[spice gale]

Yea

[balmy ravine]

Is my new pfp too dark?

[blissful grotto]

i took this picture

[grizzled lance]

Nah it really blends in with discord dark mode for me

Looks sick

[ivory thunder]

every naked eye planet except Saturn in the space of 5 minutes

Venus and Mercury
jupiter + aldebaran
mars and the heads of gemini

[grizzled lance]

Moon shot this is the best my phone can do 🥲

[floral token]

Precise+ continuous work at that fl

[balmy ravine]

Telescope vs just phone

[dreamy pebble]

> buys Ritchey–Chrétien for imaging
> uses smartphone camera

I shot that freehand with night mode

[coral cedar]

quick edit with my mineral moon

[tame kraken]

exposure time and how many did u stack? that's insane with a phone my brain doesn't understand

[timid wedge]

1hour exposure time, abt 3600 1 sec exposures

[tame kraken]

omggggg insane man insane!! Did u use Siril to stack?

[timid wedge]

i used siril and also most frames were livstacked in the app i used to capture the subs called astroshader, it was stacking 2min stacks of 1 sec exposures

[tame kraken]

Ive tried astroshader a couple times and clearly i just wasnt using it right because i never had any decent outcome. Also i thought AS only went to 1000 exposures at once did u set it off multiple times?

[lean magnet]

i really wanna see someone do phone ap with a super expensive setup

like a cdk or smth

[faint cypress]

If it’s in God’s will..

[potent gorge]

Going to the obs on Saturday so probs can

[robust fog]

Hoping I get to see clear skies

Testing out the new MC highlight reconstruction

Should allow me to clip the moon a bit while ETTR ing and catch it after it breaks from shadow

I'm hyped

Dying for a lunar eclipse timelapse

[ivory thunder]

same lmao

[balmy ravine]

Looks to be clearing up here

[wind spoke]

is there any astro stacking software

fo phone

[nimble harness]

Some people use astroshader but I prefer deepskycamera because you can import them onto your computer and stack them in dss or siril or whatever.

You can't stack in deepskycamera tho

[faint cypress]

For me AstroShader is the way to go

I got results like this

[robust fog]

Clouds

Gg me 😭

[robust fog]

Yes

For android you can stack with eagle image stacker

Or photomate R3 for a free option, less specialized tho

[faint cypress]

Guys totally real lunar eclipse I promise

That’s actually a uhc filter in my hand I swear

[potent gorge]

[terse smelt]

pay to win my beloved

[distant epoch]

These are the best total ones I took

[faint cypress]

Final Photo (sides cut out cause it looked weirdly ovular)

[distant epoch]

Nice, I like the colors, you can see the blue really well

[faint cypress]

Wait what blue

[floral token]

Colorblind 👽

[prisma raft]

are you colourblind

[distant epoch]

No, the blue towards the edge of the eclipsed part

[prisma raft]

oh ok

[distant epoch]

That part

From the outer edge of Earth's atmosphere

[prisma raft]

i think thats just lenseing

the thing where you see yellow and blue when looking into a lense

[robust fog]

Sky gods have had mercy on me

Needs some processing but caught it on 115mm and 230mm, woot!!

[dreamy pebble]

Nope, it's due to the ozone layer!

[robust fog]

Will finish it tomorrow as I only used 1/3 of integration data to stack

Very satisfied tho

Unassisted, 115mm Pixel 8 Pro with MotionCam

[elder birch]

You can with AstroShader too.
Just save all the subs as RAW, TIFF or whatever then stack them on your laptop

[nimble harness]

Oh awesome. There is that too.

[robust fog]

ISZ mode

Needed more merging

[balmy ravine]

Don't think so, looks like the white balance was shifted towards blue due to all the red

[balmy ravine]

Going to use this image to calculate pi

[distant epoch]

Ah

[balmy ravine]

i got 3.1384817999210645377622759083193

[faint cypress]

I thought it was called chromatic abberation

[balmy ravine]

its the white balance

[balmy ravine]

what phone is that? crazy dynamic range

[distant epoch]

A Samsung A13

For the first 3 I made composite photos

[prisma raft]

god damn

[balmy ravine]

99.9% accuracy, much higher than i was expecting

[thorny bobcat]

Max eclipse

[faint cypress]

Nice!!

Clouds covered totality for me 😅

[zealous edge]

more details in 🪐 -solar-system-pics

[shadow idol]

the dynamic range was absurd i was doing 1/1600 second for the early bit of the eclipse (no red) then i gradually went up to 6 seconds

[grizzled lance]

I think i captured m51 in such horrible conditions

[distant epoch]

There is that one

Or there is this one

[timid wedge]

yeah

[ivory thunder]

the moon is elliptical confirmed

[balmy ravine]

How much would that actually affect the result as I used a 45° line? Here is the video showing the full thing: https://youtu.be/C41DJA-p-yc

[grizzled lance]

Mid

[balmy ravine]

Get an adaptor

[grizzled lance]

I do i just aligned it bad

[grizzled lance]

2 second exposure

[balmy ravine]

Image of sun i took yesterday with just my phone and no solar filter, sunspots are visible

[dreamy pebble]

tell the sun to get some pimple cream

[coral cedar]

kinda bored..., so i made a black hole

i know its so irrelevant lmaoo

my bad

[zealous scaffold]

#🎨-user-art people will appreciate this in that channel

[coral cedar]

No access?

[zealous scaffold]

click on channels and roles at the top and tick the box next to user-art

[grizzled lance]

Dayum

What phone

[balmy ravine]

which pfp is better?

or this

[zealous edge]

Second one

[distant epoch]

Second this

[echo sage]

iPhone 15 pro 30 second exposure

Using the native camera app

[zealous edge]

Wow, what bortle?

[echo sage]

3

[balmy ravine]

No wonder

[wind spoke]

wat dat

[grizzled lance]

Double cluster I think

[dreamy pebble]

yeah Double Cluster

[wind spoke]

this thing?

[dreamy pebble]

Yup

[wind spoke]

cool :3

[balmy ravine]

That but rotated 90° clockwise

[gilded relic]

Hi

Hi guys I have a question

Which is more important in planetary astrophotography with your mobile

Resolution or fps

I'm having some issues with my laptop storage so which one should I be using?
UHD 60 fps
UHD 30
FHD 60
FHD 30

My issues occur when using UHD 60 fps

So which one is a better substitute for that?

My phone is S20fe

[plush palm]

My computer isn't even powerful enough to process 30 frames, let alone 200+ 🙏🙏💔

[formal notch]

I can help you out

Upload to gdrive and ill see what i can do

[formal notch]

Fps is important if you can get some surface details. If you just get bands, then choose higher resolution

[fading bobcat]

If Ewan isn't available, I can offer a hand. Just need a drive with the images

[plush palm]

Thanks, the images are still loading so it might take a while 😅

[fading bobcat]

Are you sending them here?

Or uploading to drive?

[plush palm]

Uploading to drive

[plush palm]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1--QjCrle2QikY6vrXw6EtfGPnK-EHAO- here @fading bobcat and @formal notch

[lean magnet]

resolution if it looks better with uhd than fhd

if they have the same amount of detail then fhd

[fading bobcat]

Hey thanks I'll do it when I have the time tonight! Would you like just the final stacked or would you want it processed?

[plush palm]

Would love to see It processed but stacked would be just as fine thanks!

[fading bobcat]

I'll see if I can do both and provide both!

[plush palm]

Thank you so much

[fading bobcat]

Just a little warning that I'm not the best with processing though, you may get better results trying it out yourself also.

[plush palm]

Well as long as you process it I'll be happy

[fading bobcat]

I should be able to in the next hour or so

[fading bobcat]

Honestly this is tough because I've done both 8k 24fps and UHD 60 fps and I think my 8k 24fps turned out better

I used the s20fe before switching to the note 20 and I would like to say resolution does have a large factor? I wouldn't think you'd want 60fps of something that looks terrible because poor resolution

But I'm not entirely sure on that. Honestly if anyone else could help provide an accurate awnser I'd appreciate it

[dusty swift]

Did I over-edit this

[fading bobcat]

@plush palm Give me permissions in the drive so i can upload the tif?

actually dms

[dusk crow]

Didn’t know that m78 is so dark

[nimble harness]

Is this only one exposure?

[robust fog]

Are you doing planetary?

If so, I got a fun solution lol

1280x720 sensor crop raw video 😁

It's crop so pulls only the sensor area needed instead of binning it and lower resolution

Saves data

AND gives raw data

I'm sure it can hit 30fps

The central area would be pure maximum quality but you discard the pixels on dead areas outside FoV

[fading bobcat]

Honestly not really. My svbony 48p is not a planetary scope. I've only done the moon and Venus with it. I was just trying to give my knowledge from my older 130mm newtonian I used to use

[formal notch]

Yeah i was gonna say that but how will do it? One way is to use openlivestacker and it produces fabulous results

But i wamt to process the data mayself, idk if the rejection methord that it uses has any impact

[robust fog]

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

[formal notch]

I am using it

[robust fog]

Don't need paid, it's gonna give you 5 seconds per burst

Set up a custom resolution

[formal notch]

Aaah i see

[formal notch]

I was using an older version mb

[robust fog]

Its crop not binning

So you get the 12mp capture let's say

It crop to 1280x720 or whatever area you want

Press ADD

So you can capture full resolution without all the waste excess data for outside area of interest

[formal notch]

Yeah

[formal notch]

pretty good data, even tho lens distortion killed it, orion was beautiful,you got barnards loop, flame, orion's dimmer parts and even horsehead

[formal notch]

Sigma clipping one-(90 stacked)

Mean one-(96 stacked)

[marsh sluice]

with iphone 13 and skywatcher 200p telescope

[balmy ravine]

Is the umbra really that dark that you can see stars? How long exposure time?

[marsh sluice]

yup stars were easily visible, this is 2-3s with the normal camera app on iphone

[plush palm]

Nothing crazy, I was bored and took 8 lights, M45

[nimble harness]

You got uranus too

[lunar beacon]

You can check "save all frames" in OpenLiveStacker and it would save all the intermediate frames as tiff and you can take them to whatever program you want. Just make sure that if you take darks/flat check "save all frames" since OpenLiveStacker saves the result calibration frames as float32 tiff that is usually not readable by other astronomy programs.

[lunar beacon]

Do you have an original OLS stack? Because it is interesting how it compared to post processed one.

[lunar beacon]

Question to OpenLiveStacker users...

1. Do you use it with tracking mount?
2. Do you succeed plate-solving?
3. Are you aware of the fact that OpenLiveStacker now can control the mount over wifi via indi drivers that run on Android (including syncing it via plate solving)

[arctic zodiac]

Jupiter through binoculars

Zoomed in digitally

And swallowed by the evil samsung AI

Taken on s24 FE through an old ass pair of 10x50s

[arctic zodiac]

25mm eyepiece?

[somber lantern]

I don't think so, but they're both different datasets a year apart, both done with the exact same equipment under similar conditions

[marsh sluice]

Yes

[arctic zodiac]

Looks really cool, love the color too

[formal notch]

i have done save all frames but it saves in w and black, even if i choose color, (i have only tried it with deepsky mode)

[formal notch]

1)No
2)ive tried but it wont work as i am a phone with eyepiece user
3) -

[lunar beacon]

If you stack in software outside you probably need to define bayer pattern if you use raw16 images (look into info.json - bayer field)

[formal notch]

Aaah i see, will try that tonight

[formal notch]

test stack abt 10mins

b9

pretty good, 4gigs for 10mins data is acceptable

[solid socket]

walkinggg noiseeeeeeeee

[lunar beacon]

What tool did you use? OpenLiveStacker or something else?

[formal notch]

Openlivestacker for capturing and astrosurface for stacking

I used OLS because it has the cropping of sensor resolution so it would save size and also has very less shutter lag as compared to deepskycamera.

[formal notch]

also i am abt 87% sure i am not in focus, what is the focus point in OLS typically?

[grizzled lance]

Mw in b6-7

But barelyy

[elder birch]

Cygnus region (re-edit from last summer with a new tool)
x400, 5s, ISO 4400, iPhone15

[desert talon]

M42
Untracked, 128 1s exposures
128s total time
ISO 32000
Taken using AstroShader, edited in Lightroom
iPhone SE 3
Bortle 8-9

[lean magnet]

its been a while since i have done phone ap

gonna do some tonight

[floral token]

Welcome POOkie

[fair trellis]

M13. 10s exposure. Skywatcher 5mm UWA. Skywatcher quattro 250p.

[tame kraken]

Nabbed this last night M31 peaking through there

iPhone 15 30 secs b3 skies

[desert talon]

Very nice. I have to drive almost 2 hours for a b3. (I live in b8-9)

[tame kraken]

ty ty yeah im mad lucky to live in the countryside

[spice gale]

ayy this looks nice, could fix the temp later

[tame kraken]

yeah not edited yet but will defo

[spice gale]

yea, overall lovely pic

you could install astroshader

since you have an iphone

[tame kraken]

yeah i use it often its done me well i love it

[spice gale]

Oh cool

[tame kraken]

Yeahh with assistance from my telescope and my phone AstroShader helped me get this beauty image of M51

[spice gale]

Holy

[tame kraken]

obviously nothing special compared to some of these guys with crazy set ups but proves a phone is just fine haha

i legit have a dslr in my drawer as well i just cant use it as my telesope dont prime focus 😭 😭

[spice gale]

I mean its a phone

I never captured m51

I hope ill go in b3 this spring

[tame kraken]

its been so cloudy the whole week i cant even see the moon its actually killing me

[spice gale]

Same

[nimble harness]

No solar filter?

[ivory thunder]

the clouds were my filter

[potent gorge]

@solar nymph another gooner imaging the sun unfiltered

[solar nymph]

https://discord.com/channels/794642864218439681/1234346571781505045

Clouds are not a safe filter

[potent gorge]

brown dwarf worthy

[ivory thunder]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1265348955076558888/1323230742444245053/uncaption.gif

[coral cedar]

maybe another hdr moon

[gusty zodiac]

Something went very, very wrong here

The light side is literally the bottom part of the dark side rotated ~90 degrees anti-clockwise

[coral cedar]

Nah, i dont do the calculate, just make a quick edit

[coral cedar]

Lmao rip, this should be hall of shame right now

[formal notch]

Post this in solar sys pics on 1st April

[zealous edge]

wait am I stupid, I don't see what's wrong here, it just looks like a moon HDR image with some background composition and lighting edits

chat am I an idiot

[gusty zodiac]

Here is his image rotated to match the normal moon pic to the left, which should make the issue very clear. I'm not sure how'd you miss the lack of any Tycho crater or how the moon is like 90% Mare but yeah

[coral cedar]

Well, just sharing my pic, i dont do like analyse or something, id like what i consider its good, just to fullfill my hobbies 😄

[zealous edge]

Oh wait what the hell

how did I not notice any of that

I might be stupid

[gusty zodiac]

dw man, keep doing what you love

[coral cedar]

Thank you, you too

[coral cedar]

make a quick fix also, and reduce clarity

[balmy ravine]

Why no glare on the dark side???

[coral cedar]

Its composed, i dont want to expose it too much

[spice gale]

Its great tbh

I cant decide if i lile it mineral or simple like that

[coral cedar]

Thank you so much!

[balmy ravine]

Mine has loads of glare

[coral cedar]

Yeah since u are shooting with clear skies and its a single frame

Mine was 3 frame stack into 1

[dreamy pebble]

🅱️eehive

[spice gale]

Nice one

[dreamy pebble]

Entirely freehanded on a whim!

[spice gale]

Oh rly not bad for freehanded

[dreamy pebble]

Yeah I had to fight the autofocus, because I can't shoot in night mode with manual focus on my phone. But that one turned out surprisingly well

I know there are apps for unlocking more of your camera's potential, but I wasn't even thinking of doing this seriously

[balmy ravine]

Sunset sun

With just solar filter

You can see how the bottom part is darker due to the light passing through more atmosphere

[robust fog]

We're up all night to get astro

😁

[echo shell]

Omgg

I remember that song

Were up all night to get lucky

I would always listen to that dude

Thank you for reminding me of ittt

[tame kraken]

For nebulae imagery using AstroShader, is my best bet to have AstroShader stack my images for me or save each sub raw and stack/process them myself in siril and registax?

[spice gale]

Good question

[tame kraken]

it is isnt it 😂

id do both but im planning on getting like 2 hrs of integration so i dont really have time to do both lol

[spice gale]

From what i heard from the majority that using a software is better then live stacking

[spice gale]

Oo what target

[tame kraken]

honestly im wanting a crispy shot of Rosette icl

[spice gale]

Good luck

Wait what is your fov

And setup

[tame kraken]

yes however this may be an issue 😦

[tame kraken]

my setup is proper beginner i have a Nexstar 130SLT and i cant use a dslr with mny scope as i cant prime focus, so ive got a NexYZ phone mount and obv AstroShader

but tbf i cant complain im quite happy with what ive managed to shoot so far haha beggers cant be chosers innit

[spice gale]

Haha true

Do you do planetary imaging with the phone?

[tame kraken]

i try yeah ive tried Jupiter once but i was my first time do not so good it was only like a 20s video i stacked

the pic of the moon i have as my profile banner is prob the best lunar shot i got

[spice gale]

Not a bad one

[spice gale]

What camera app

[tame kraken]

thats legit just the ios camera app with a bit of tweaking

[spice gale]

How do you manage😭

I cant focus

[tame kraken]

trial and error bro 😭

[tame kraken]

massive pain icl paha

[tame kraken]

wbu u whats your setup?

[echo sage]

Some of my best

[tame kraken]

That’s a beautiful wide field mw 🔥👊

[balmy ravine]

what diameter? not very diffraction limited

[tame kraken]

My telescope? A 130/650

[spice gale]

Dobson heritage 150 mm and iphone 15 pro

[tame kraken]

Does that have tracking? Assuming it does haha

[spice gale]

No

[tame kraken]

Ohhhh wow well that makes your pfp really impressive then 😂

[spice gale]

Haha just 300 frames on adtroshader

[tame kraken]

Went for M53 tonight for fun got this 😭

[nimble harness]

Light leak

[lean magnet]

well yeah ofc

its phone and bino ap

[nimble harness]

Oh I see

[zealous edge]

I think that's the phones infrared sensor

[lean magnet]

ten seconds of leo triplet lmao

and heres the orion

i think it was like two minutes

[nimble harness]

This is actually pretty good

[lean magnet]

i havent done phone and bino ap since my first ever image

so i just wanted to come back to it

[spice gale]

Not bad

[tame kraken]

I’ve tweaked it a bit bringing out more sharpness in each star so it’s ain’t toooo bad haha ty tho

[spice gale]

Yea this one is much better

[blissful grotto]

What fo y'all think about this

And any tips for better photos 🙂

[spice gale]

What setup?

[grizzled lance]

Looks a little stretched

Lower exposure time

Increase iso

Try take a video of Jupiter next time then stack

[blissful grotto]

Just my phone to the eyepiece and one picture i know that it's not that way to take a planetry image but it worked i guess

[blissful grotto]

It is not stacked or even processed just with the phone camera

[ivory thunder]

the barely visible star is sirius, just 1.2 degrees above the horizon

[grizzled lance]

Yeah try stacking it tho by taking a. Video

[blissful grotto]

Can you tell me the name of a software for that

[grizzled lance]

You have to do in conputer

I watched a video on how to stack a vid of jupiter

Its simple

At first I thought it was hard but you'll learn it

[blissful grotto]

Okay thank you i will look more into this thanks again 👍🏻

[nimble harness]

This fov lowk looks rlly good

[grizzled lance]

Captured with s23U

Satellite trails

And there was a street lamp towards right 😔

[timid wedge]

pls unclip it

[patent zodiac]

Very nice, i got this with my phone a few months ago

[nimble harness]

Epic details man. I still need to get data before it gets too low on the horizon

[spice gale]

Wow the pyramids

[distant epoch]

The Tetrahedrons of French Polynesia are my favorite of the 8 expectations of the neighborhood

[grizzled lance]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[patent zodiac]

Thx, try it out. I remember this image was hand tracked at 10s exposures

[blissful grotto]

Guys my phone doesn't support long exposure photos or a pro mode will a third party app work for that ?

[nimble harness]

Yeah I definitely will

[floral token]

Trying is your best option

[scenic glen]

Made with my iPhone 15 & telescope

It’s alright ig

[spice gale]

I would recommend you to use astroshader

Great app

[scenic glen]

Let me try

Ty

[spice gale]

Np

[robust fog]

What device

[blissful grotto]

its a redmi 12

[robust fog]

Oof, likely Mediatek but let's see

Do you know what SoC it has?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flar2.devcheck

Download this and open Hardware category

Tell me what you see there

[blissful grotto]

This is what i get

[robust fog]

Oof, what I feared

Ok, not the end of the world

Try this next

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.camera2.test

Pull a report and share it here

Full mode

[blissful grotto]

Its not available

I did some searching and i found a camera third party FV-5 i think it worke i just gotta test it

[robust fog]

Your biggest issue and reason I asked for these

Mediatek tends to restrict to 1/4s shutter speed max

So if it's got Camera2API it's good

But you may not be able to do long exposures beyond that

Your best bet is Deep Sky Camera

Has a workaround that MAY work, but if not, it's toast

[blissful grotto]

Thank you so much bro for your help 🙏🏻

[dusk crow]

M1 Crab Nebula, 1s, 900pic, ISO 32000, I only let AstroSahder stack 30pic and than, I save the image and I did it 30 times and Stack the Images on my Mac with Lynkeos.

[spice gale]

Hmm

What bortle

[dusk crow]

6

[spice gale]

I mean m1 is there, but its def improvable

I js don’t know how

[dusk crow]

Yes, I also don’t know why. Probely Bec 1 sec sub and low magnification

[spice gale]

Maybe

[frank jungle]

Captured moon halo a few days ago

[tame kraken]

I didn’t even know I clipped it? 😂😅

[timid wedge]

the space between the stars is litterally completely black

its clipped

lowerblack point or smth

[spice gale]

Yo nick

Can you help me w something

Can you ss the settings for that orion on astroshader?

[tame kraken]

I did lower blackpoint yeah it was just horrendous if I didn’t 😂

[timid wedge]

well its worse clipped

[tame kraken]

U sure…

[timid wedge]

my setttings were 1 sec (should have been 0.5) 10000iso (find the optimmal for you) and in total its 3600frames

[timid wedge]

give me the data so i can process it

[spice gale]

I mean the WHOLE THING

Like the smallest details of it

[tame kraken]

That legit is the data it was taken with phone and that’s the raw 🙂

[spice gale]

These stuff u mean

[timid wedge]

ye u should give the tiff file

[timid wedge]

oh, put the alignment to medium

thats it

[spice gale]

Ok thx

[tame kraken]

I only have the IMG I’m not at pc rn

.

There we go

[timid wedge]

thx

[timid wedge]

didd u just take the non tiff and saved iit as tiff?

[tame kraken]

Possibly 😂 I saved it through AS as a tiff assuming that would work paha

[timid wedge]

no lol

[tame kraken]

How do I do it then I only have the IMG 😂

Do I gotta convert

[timid wedge]

https://tenor.com/view/invincible-that's-the-neat-part-you-don't-gif-14180388429135427516

[timid wedge]

next time save the file as tiff

[timid wedge]

you imagee with astroshadeer right?

[tame kraken]

Honestly I think this might have been one I took with just iOS cam as I was having trouble with astrosahder at the time

Yeah my bad 😂

[timid wedge]

yh thats prob it

[tame kraken]

Yeah it’s stuck in thy img form forever 😭

[faint cypress]

Ring Nebula and Sombrero Galaxy 💍 🌌

[faint cypress]

Is that the constellation Crux I see?!

can’t wait to image the jewel box in April

nice photos

[river sand]

yes

[river sand]

thanks

[river sand]

i got omega centauri in the first pic (i think) and carina nebula on the second pic

[zinc heart]

[balmy ravine]

Unfortunately could not use my telescope or solar filter

[dusk crow]

S23 Ultra, from my friend phone

[frank jungle]

Planet Venus captured through my Telescope a few weeks ago

[river sand]

the crying star

alias my hand shakes while taking this photo

[spice gale]

What setup, this looks amazing

[frank jungle]

The photo was taken with Celestron Powerseeker 114EQ using a 4mm eyepiece and my phone camera attached to it

[spice gale]

Very nice stack

[spice gale]

Holy mother of clouds

Unlucky

I got low THHHICKK clouds

So pretty unlucky too

[balmy ravine]

It was clear during the eclipse for me, overcast now

[spice gale]

Did you image it?

[nimble harness]

ARE YOU SHOOTING THROUGH CLOUDS AGAIN

[ivory thunder]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1265348955076558888/1323230742444245053/uncaption.gif

[balmy ravine]

yes http://youtube.com/post/UgkxgMzUez35aQ_r9ONOudq9v1Anlyhd10G3?si=utBC7TvARIKsDMMI

or scroll up for better quality

[river sand]

is this good? i use apexel lens

[echo sage]

The only problem is it’s very soft, but that could be because you’re shooting through the clouds

[spice gale]

3rd one looks legendary

[balmy ravine]

It is overexposed and very compressed

[river sand]

okay lemme fix that

[river sand]

is this any better

[distant epoch]

The issue with it being overexposed is that you can't really fix it, the bright spots will always just be white blobs no matter how much editing you do

You would have to turn down the iso or exposure before taking the photo to fix the issue

[grizzled lance]

Eid mubarak

[balmy ravine]

wonder what it looked like during the sighting

[opaque tundra]

eid mubarak

[stray nova]

Last saturday 's solar eclipse from spain

[balmy ravine]

What exactly are we looking at

[ivory thunder]

this looks like mercury tbh

[grizzled lance]

Sun looks sick

[balmy ravine]

Changed white balance and increased shadows to 100

I should have used my 1x camera as that can go to iso 10 and maybe higher dynamic range, too late now

Just auto white balance

[echo sage]

I think your a little over exposed

[balmy ravine]

That is on purpose for the earthshine

A 'little'

[tame kraken]

Beautiful catch with the plane wow 🤩

[balmy ravine]

Moon pleiades conjunction

[spice gale]

So cool

[spice gale]

This is honestly an incredible image

Love it so bad

[grizzled lance]

Did you see a bright meteor literally right on top of moon approx 1h ago

Left a trail as it was gong through

[balmy ravine]

Nope, was possibly indoors for 5 mins

[grizzled lance]

Ahh alright

[balmy ravine]

Is.. that the shadow of the flat earth? Checkmate!

[rain silo]

i saw that

did the trail drift across the moon i was using my telescope and saw it

i took these through my telescope with my phone first time i used the telescope

[bronze jackal]

Missing out on what seems to be one of the clearest and best seeing nights in a long while because i have to wake up for uni tomorrow 😭

[dusk crow]

I just buy a 27mm Flatfield eyepiece and the edges get even more worse

[dusk crow]

I just payed 90€ and this is the results, definitely I give it back

[dreamy pebble]

Are you referring to the edge of field brightening or the aberrations?

[dusk crow]

The Coma

[grizzled lance]

Yeahhhh

[rain silo]

yeah i was out there for like 2 hours looking and the one moment i look away i missed it and only saw the trail

[balmy ravine]

Wait you would have to be in the same area to see the same meteor in the same place, right?

[rain silo]

ish

[balmy ravine]

4 (maybe 5?) Lens flares from the moon

Interesting how some of them are upside-down

[balmy ravine]

Jupiter is disappointingly white when set to the moons white balance

Now that I look at them side by side, jupiter is much yellower

[grizzled lance]

I'm gonna image moon (first time) hopefully weather will be goof

Good*

[iron bear]

Both single frame. It just keeps raining here, so only single frames are left to edit
Xiaomi 12, 55s iso 400
114/900mm newton on the left

[spice gale]

Come on now these are amazing single frames

[distant epoch]

There ain't no way that milky way shot is a single frame

[floral token]

Is this your bortle 3 ?
Single frame and this result is amazing Lucas

[lofty pebble]

Definitely an android

[grizzled lance]

3 years ago

[iron bear]

Bortle 4... And in the image of M46, there was a nearly full moon

[floral token]

Nice Lucas
I loved the milky way one 👽

[balmy ravine]

im sorry, 55 seconds with full moon????

is xiaomi 12 just that good?

[zealous edge]

Yes

he's also great at processing too, tbf

[faint cypress]

Blurry photo of mars, I’ll edit it later after school

[iron bear]

Yep

Imx 766...

[zealous edge]

Is there I way I wonder, to buy just the camera part of the Xiaomi 12? Or would that essentially just be an astronomy camera at that point?

[neat flame]

moon hdr 😄

[iron bear]

It´s possible buy just the camera module... The problem is getting it to work. It will end up costing the same as an astro camera with the IMX 664, which is quite similar. I don't think it's worth it

[zealous edge]

Ah ok, fair enough then

[iron bear]

Although the sensor of this camera is still 40% smaller than the IMX 766, it will still be more worthwhile than trying to make a Frankenstein with the phone sensor

[blissful grotto]

?/10

[grizzled lance]

Uncollimated pic

[zealous edge]

Not bad for uncollimated, must not be too uncollimated then

[grizzled lance]

So hard to get focus

[balmy ravine]

How is that only barely better than my 60mm lol

[grizzled lance]

Bruh your 60mm is something else good

[spice gale]

🔥

So unlucky the phone isnt aligned well to the eyepiece

[grizzled lance]

Eh I was just testing dso I didn't expect to see this

M108 and owl nebula (bottom)

In b6

And moon

[spice gale]

Oh right

Cool

[coral cedar]

venus this morning

[distant epoch]

Waxing gibbous

I am attempting to take a photo of every moon phase

Something funny I have noticed, the quality of my photos are increasing every moon phase

Does anyone know why this is? Is it the fact that my phone has more to focus on?

Because it has always been a thing, the slimmer the moon phase, the less detail

[iron bear]

Milky Way setting at 5:30~ a.m.
(Photo taken on June 7, 2024). I hadn’t processed it yet because the background was already being affected by the light of dawn at that time. With all the rain in São Paulo lately, this was all the data I had left 😂. It took a bit of work to fix the background, but the result turned out pretty good

Data:
Xiaomi 12 (IMX766), fixed tripod
52 x 20s, ISO 800 — 24mm f/1.8
Munhoz - Brazil. Bortle ~4

[coral cedar]

Hey lucas

Im wondering how did u calibrate the color of milky way

Like lagoon being purple

And the other part of nebulas itself

[cyan island]

Deep Sky Camera app (on andriod)... all my pictures come out very very green? What am i doing wrong 🤣

[grizzled lance]

Yeah bruh the sensor on that phone is crazy wth

Says a lot

Mine is Samsung ISOCELL HP3 despite being a honor

[distant epoch]

I'm looking into getting a xiaomi for this reason and I have a question on something I'm confused about, is that a stacked image?

Also dang they are surprisingly cheap

[plush palm]

Just use siril and remove green noise

[coral cedar]

Milky way through my phone

[tame kraken]

Omg what

[tame kraken]

This is so beautiful too wow 🤩

[lean magnet]

no

color calibrate

[iron bear]

I use PixInsight... I do the plate solve of the image using the pixel size and focal length data from the phone's lens, and then I run the Spectrophotometric Color Calibration. It helps a lot, but usually, just balancing the colors already gives it that look. Regarding nebulae, I always boost saturation in my photos using the range mask in PixInsight. It selects the objects in the photo based on brightness (thus always protecting the background a bit). That way, any process I apply will always be based on the object's luminosity — and saturation is no different. It ends up enhancing the brighter nebulae better

[iron bear]

Yes... I stacked 52 photos of 20 seconds each. A single 20-second frame doesn’t look like that at all... All that signal from the dark nebulae in the Milky Way is very faint

This is a single sub, but 55 seconds instead of 20

[coral cedar]

Your single looks like my stacked 😂

[coral cedar]

Aaahh, i see, i use dsc tho for capturihg, but it says focal length 4 mm after shooting?

Cannot plate solve

[iron bear]

This is the focal length you should enter... But you need to know your phone's pixel size. Since it has a 4mm lens, I'd guess it's 1.6 microns.
Mine has a 6.7mm lens, but the sensor is much larger. So the resulting focal length remains 24mm due to the crop factor.
But for plate solving to work, you need to input the actual focal length of the phone (in my case, 6.7mm and 2 microns)

If you're stacking with drizzle, divide the pixel size by 2

[coral cedar]

Do you need to enter object, like for example, milky way contains lagoon nebula, antares region, etc, so in order to make it work, u need those sample to make the color calibration work?

[coral cedar]

I should enter this number as my sample for the color calib

[iron bear]

I usually look for a nebula more or less in the center of the image... For example, in this one I used the Lagoon Nebula. Then the plate solve pulled its coordinates. Since the plate solve had information about my focal length, pixel size, and image resolution, it was able to identify the framing and correct any difference in the coordinates

[coral cedar]

Aaaa

I see now

Alright, thank you lucas

I get it now

[iron bear]

My mom has a base S23, which uses the S5KGN3 sensor (which is theoretically in the same category as my 766). I've tested it for astrophotography. It's not terrible — the background noise is higher, but not insanely higher. What I found disappointing is that apparently Samsung doesn't include those graphene/copper conductive tapes behind the sensor. It produced way more hot pixels than my Mi 12 with the exact same 55-second exposures; Probably due to the lack of heat dissipation from the sensor to the phone's body, the sensor heats up a lot during long exposures and fills the photo with hot pixels

s23 left
mi12 right

both 55s iso 400 in DSC

The IMX766 also seems to be more sensitive. ISO 400 on it is equivalent to ISO 800 on the S23

[grizzled lance]

Damn what

Samsung😔

[balmy ravine]

Another reason why it's so good: milky way centre is just bright

[grizzled lance]

Is my phone aligned properly?

[balmy ravine]

No, there is darkening on the right. Try aiming your telescope at something with little to no detail, like the sky or a wall

The sharp edge can be adjusted by rotating your phone, the fuzzy edge can be adjusted by moving your phone, move it further away or closer to the eyepiece until the fuzzy circle appears the largest or becomes some other shape

[grizzled lance]

Damn bro thank you

I always mis align my phone 😅

[balmy ravine]

That is mars

[grizzled lance]

Idk how your 60mm gets such clean pics bro

A bit embarrassing for my 150/750😅😅

[balmy ravine]

It's the one astrobiscuit recommends for under £100

[grizzled lance]

Ohhhhh

[spice gale]

Nice daytime moon, really

[grizzled lance]

[balmy ravine]

3x contrail ruins image

[ivory thunder]

..I'm out of first quarter moon daytime pictures

[balmy ravine]

I don't know if I should be annoyed by the 1 second difference

Completely unintentional

[spring viper]

Samsung hasn't improved their cameras in any way in the new generations, they're still the same old noisy sensors. One of the reasons why I wouldn't buy a flagship Samsung

[grizzled lance]

I'm glad I bought a decent mid range phone

The built in astrophotography mode in s23u is so mid the pro camera with 30s exposure does better performance

[balmy ravine]

That's what I've been saying

[balmy ravine]

Beehive cluster and moon glare

Beehive cluster and moon glare

What? The other one didn't send until I sent the 2nd one

[dreamy pebble]

discord 🅱️ like that sometimes

[haughty plume]

this is a few years old at this point

900/80 refractor and iPhone SE

[grizzled lance]

Surface detail on Mars

[haughty plume]

much harder in the coming years as mars opposition is happening around aphelion

[spice gale]

Do you use any specific app to film the planets?

[nimble harness]

These are gorgeous

[steel summit]

new moon?

[balmy ravine]

New???

[grizzled lance]

Crescent

[haughty plume]

i used to use nightcap (which still works fine on the SE) but am looking into alternatives for my iPhone 13

[steel summit]

old?

idk

[spice gale]

Right, because i recently switched from android to ios and i miss the video pro mode

[balmy ravine]

Oh I just assumed you replied to my recent image lol, crescent ig?

[balmy ravine]

7 day sun timelapse maybe coming today

[haughty plume]

im currently experimenting with an app called darkmagic cam which seems to shoot raw video

it performs pretty well on the newer models

[spice gale]

Oh ok well lmk how it goes, ill definitely test it next time i have clear

[balmy ravine]

Blue was overexposed but it wasn't clipped so I just lowered exposure after the photo was taken