Phone Astrophotography

[balmy ravine]

7 day timelapse of the sun

[floral token]

hey lucas can i use your mw photo in my web dev class final project? i need astrophotos taken with phone and fixed tripod and i dont have any photos of mw

i will credit you but i am not going to put the website in internet its just a project but still i will credit it : )

just let me know which social media you want to put : )

[grizzled lance]

That's actually sick

[balmy ravine]

Hercules cluster, 2 seconds, 3200 iso

[balmy ravine]

Screenshot of the raw

[haughty plume]

got this short stack of 9x 1 sec shots of the same object last night: more iso boost would definitely improve your image!

[iron bear]

Hi Smit, sure!
My IG is: astrolucas_js

[balmy ravine]

3200 is my phones highest iso

[zealous edge]

Acquisition details?

[grizzled lance]

I remember with my 80/800 I saw a faint blurry dim smudge aswell

In b6

[grizzled lance]

Did you edit this it looks bit grainy

[blissful grotto]

yeah but i still have the originale

[grizzled lance]

Decent pic 👌

[blissful grotto]

thanks

i tried taking photos of the orion nebula with night mode buut i turned out not as expected

[grizzled lance]

Do not use night mode always use pro

What is your set up?

[blissful grotto]

uhh thats my phone s problem it does not have pro

[blissful grotto]

114/900 mm

[grizzled lance]

Damnn

[grizzled lance]

Yo you should get decent results w that

For planetary it would be sick

Try do planets

[blissful grotto]

yess i tried jupiter

my phone sucks bro

[grizzled lance]

What phone do you have

[blissful grotto]

redmi 12 lol

[grizzled lance]

Its possible with that

[blissful grotto]

do you stack videos bc i tried but i cant download registax

[grizzled lance]

You can try third party apps and yiu cna try do exposure and Iso there

[grizzled lance]

I can stack for you

And process

[blissful grotto]

really

[grizzled lance]

I need to do my 30min jupiter

Yeah it doesn't take long

[blissful grotto]

sure ill do it

[grizzled lance]

Alright

Did you record in raw

[blissful grotto]

not yet these days it Wendy ash so it moves the telescope and the video is ruined

[grizzled lance]

Ohhh

Lmk when you have good seeing and rec jupiter

I'll add you

[blissful grotto]

okay thank you so much

[grizzled lance]

Np brother

👍🏼

[floral token]

Thanks Lucas 🥹👨‍🍳

[spice gale]

Hi again, i searched it but couldn’t find it on the apps store

Oh i found it, blackmagic cam

[haughty plume]

my brain be like dark=black 💀💀

[balmy ravine]

Black=dark
Dark≠black

[tame kraken]

😐

[plush palm]

With realme 9, the craziest part? It only has 10x zoom

Here is with very cheap binoculars

[grizzled lance]

Very good for budget phone ngl

[plush palm]

Ah yes, light pollution!!

[plush palm]

Keep in mind this is a very small city, 10k people living in it

[plush palm]

50mm telescope?

[balmy ravine]

60

[plush palm]

Nicey

Amazing image btw

[plush palm]

Sun thru morning fog

[formal notch]

HEY use a solar filter

||jk||

[grizzled lance]

Bro is that a sunspoy through pboen in first piv bottom tight

Right

[plush palm]

Could be

[grizzled lance]

Damn wth

[ivory thunder]

so when others do it its fine
but if I do I get threatened with brown dwarf 😭

[spice gale]

[balmy ravine]

Those aren't accrate, use images from SDO

[grizzled lance]

Guys

Is gcam (Google cam) better than standard camera pro settings

[grizzled lance]

I downloaded it I'll test it out gcam is basically like standard camera but there's options for astrophotography and it's on steroids from what I've heard it has to be compatible with your phone and you can take few min exposure w it

Ill compare it from my usual camera to gcam

[balmy ravine]

It looks like open camera but with annoying ads and a paywall

[grizzled lance]

I didn't get any ads

It looks legit you have to download apk from modders

From modders that has best ap settings

You can tweak it there's so much settings

Ask chat gpt what model is compatible that's what I did

[prisma raft]

gcam will only work on phones with full camera2api compatibility

[grizzled lance]

Onky works for android I think but to check if phone is compatible download camera 2 probe it should say level 3 of full compatibility

[prisma raft]

your best bet is using opencamera

[grizzled lance]

It worked for me it said level 3

I haven't tested it tho

[prisma raft]

level 3 should be fine

if you have raw capabilities on your phone

[grizzled lance]

I see

[prisma raft]

I've gone through some painful processes of seeing if an a55 would work for raw

it doesn't, don't root your phone at all

not worth it

[grizzled lance]

I'll just test it I won't go serious on it

I don't wanna like root my phone and link with my cpu whatever that crap is

[balmy ravine]

This the one?

[grizzled lance]

No

Its apk on web

But download from trusted source and check what link is compatible w your phone

[balmy ravine]

Spiderweb visible in 2nd image

[rain silo]

i have a couple more vids but took them on a different phone i need to send them to mine ignore the music

[zealous edge]

what is the music in the background, I like it

[rain silo]

that’s it

[zealous edge]

Ah okie

[neat flame]

MOON HDR : ]

[balmy ravine]

Not exactly hdr if you can't see earthshine

[dusk crow]

Are you Live in Australia? Why is the Moon upside down?😂

[blissful grotto]

4/09

[fading bobcat]

A reprocess

I decided to reprocess my orion nebula photo I captured earlier this year. The stars were way out of wack, and the color seemed very off. I can't say for sure that this reprocess is better (the images still have way more room to be improved), but I personally find it more fascinating!

The 1st also involved sirils star reprocessing, as the stars in the original had weird glare and look awful (as seen in image two)

Image 1 - Reprocessed
Image 2 - Original photo

I believe the 2nd one was me just trying to pull whatever I could, while the 1st was trying to go for a more realistic color

If anyone has opinions on which they prefer, or any criticism, please do share!

[thorny bobcat]

March 2025 lunar eclipse timelapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKmSIp9tkVk

[grizzled lance]

Welp gcam sucks

Fiest is with gcam but I think i captured a very bright meteor

Hold up It was a fireball maybe defo not satellite it plane

[nimble harness]

Was it a very bright extremely fast streak?

[somber lantern]

That looks pretty dim to be a meteor

[grizzled lance]

I was testing out some camera the whole pic wa super dim compare to my normal

If I captured in some very dim cam

Then it shoukd super bright

[grizzled lance]

It was a 4min exposire pic I was inside 🥲

[nimble harness]

Hmm not sure then 🤔

[balmy ravine]

I can see a dotted line, plane and contrail?

[grizzled lance]

If it was plane it would go through the whole image

Red and green lights

The dotted line could be like burnijb ionising rock

But not sure

[balmy ravine]

Seems way too evenly spaced not to be artificial

[grizzled lance]

Your right

Gcam really sucks huh

Dk why it's so purple but I edited to bring the trail out

Defo not lens flare trust

The trail was somewhat near moon as well that's why there's this bright hue

Not satellite checked with stellarium

Oh well i think it's prolly some weird thing I see now and then

[balmy ravine]

UFO

Literally

[somber lantern]

No but they're eye burningly bright or not bright at all and that seems pretty big so I'm guessing it'd be a fireball which are crazy bright

[plush palm]

It's a light that got in camera possibly from nearby streetlight

[balmy ravine]

He already said not lens flare

[balmy ravine]

What is happening near tycho??

[coral cedar]

Probably stack artifact

It came out like that, but mehh, i dont mind it haha

[tame kraken]

Tonight’s moon, annoyingly my phone wasn’t positioned properly but only realised as I came back inside 😭

Let’s just only look at the top half 😅

[distant epoch]

I tried, I have a pretty bad setup for solar photography

This was the original

[distant epoch]

I adjusted some things

[real cloud]

Samsung S22 Ultra. 10x optical zoom.
No telescope. Hand tracked.
Blurx 0.33 😄

[balmy ravine]

I've noticed if I set the exposure the same for all my photos, the fuller moons lit surface brightness is significantly brighter for some reason, seeliger effect maybe?

[exotic merlin]

2x barrow lens

[balmy ravine]

3 worst things, also what is with that crazy diffraction spike? My phones aperture is circle

[grizzled lance]

Its js bright

[balmy ravine]

I waited till late thinking skies were clearing but this cloud just went over

No moon image from me tonight, 8 day streak it is

Could have been like 11 but I missed a day

[grizzled lance]

Yup instability and cloud as usual😔

Uk weather.

[dreamy pebble]

I can't believe Scotland is being hit by clouds that are just advertising an adblocker

[somber lantern]

Dirty lens causes it

Depending on what direction you wipe your lens it changes directions

If you clean it in a circular motion it will disappear

[balmy ravine]

I DID clean my lens, those would not be rainbow coloured

[somber lantern]

Well, that's the cause
Not sure if dirt exactly but just oils and thingies from your hands on the lens

[balmy ravine]

Flares from a dirty lens aren't usually rainbow coloured tho

[faint cypress]

Messier 66 and the Western Veil Nebula

Used an free ai denoiser for the first image though 😭

[grizzled lance]

What's your setup veil nebula will look very good if you stacked it

[somber lantern]

Thats a really nice looking moon

[distant epoch]

Thanks

[balmy ravine]

I wouldn't recommend using any denoiser, the human brain is much better at spotting detail in noise

[faint cypress]

I mean Nero AI seems to do quite well

[spice gale]

What setup?

[faint cypress]

8 Inch SCT and iPhone 14 Pro using AstroShader

[coral cedar]

Pink moon(this is composite moon, so its edited)

[grizzled lance]

What bortle

[spice gale]

Nice setuo, what bortle

[spice gale]

This is surely your best

[coral cedar]

oh really? appriciate it

thankss

[spice gale]

Ir look’s incredible

Ik the colors are not true and edited but still

[coral cedar]

thank youuu

but yeah still looks fake lmao

[spice gale]

Who cares lol

Grannies on facebook will love it

[cobalt brook]

There is no chance this is accurate.... I took an old photo and asked chat gpt for help editing it and it gave me a step by step guide using Lightroom.... I did it all, here is the side by side.... There's no way that's accurate right?

[balmy ravine]

Accurate... what exactly do you mean?

[cobalt brook]

Like that's a horrible photo, there no shot that it's got that many stars, I took that without really any research on the best method etc.... just used expert raw lol

[gusty zodiac]

wdym I'm seeing quite a lot of stars

[cobalt brook]

I guess.... I just assumed those were noise

[arctic zodiac]

Moon was actually almost full, i just couldn't keep the phone straight

S24 fe with celestron astromaster 130eq on a 10mm eyepiece

Severely overexposed

[balmy ravine]

no?

[arctic zodiac]

i turned the brightness down and sharpened it after taking the pictur

e

makes it look pretty blurry and not much detail

[grizzled lance]

Looks good

[faint cypress]

Guessing 5 or 6

[nimble harness]

This would be over exposed

I'd say it's pretty underexposed

[rain silo]

or this

[arctic zodiac]

Oh, nvm then. Will try again when moon is visible.

[balmy ravine]

Best to set iso lowest and shutter speed highest without overexposing

[cobalt brook]

Just took this

[nimble harness]

Those are stars alright

[cobalt brook]

Why can't I tell if that's sarcasm lol

[floral token]

It is lol

Increase the exposure and iso

[arctic zodiac]

Jupiter

Clouds very very faintly visible

Don't have a phone holder yet

[blissful grotto]

I tried to take a photo of the Orion nebula but i there is no clors (used night mode bc i don't have pro mode)

[balmy ravine]

the orion nebula is on the far right

maybe take another image with it centered

[desert talon]

Beehive cluster, Orion Nebula, and Pleiades from a B2-3 on a full moon

[grizzled lance]

What is your rig?

Looks good for full moon

[desert talon]

I have a gysker 130eq telescope

[grizzled lance]

Trashy pic of hercules cluster

[rain silo]

still looks hella cool

[faint cypress]

Some practice and you’ll be all good

Photos like these took just a few months of experience for me

[grizzled lance]

Dayyummn

That's actually looks good brother

[spice gale]

Really cool one

[grizzled lance]

M106
1250 iso
30sec exposure
65 light frames 15 dark
Bortle 5
Not final but looks OK
Stacked in dss edited in siril and Adobe express

Idk why purple and bit blurry maybe tiny unfocused 😭

[spice gale]

Almost

[spice gale]

But this image has lots of potential

[grizzled lance]

Its the best i could get for some reason siril software shut down or sum I couldn't be bothered to download some local ones off siril

[faint cypress]

I should put that galaxy on my list

[grizzled lance]

Its bright trust

Single frame I was able to see it

Go for galaxies with med to high surface brightness

Go for M108 aswell

I got this in b6 75%moon

[faint cypress]

Already did 😎

It was hard to tell if it was a galaxy at first though as it just looked like a bright star

usually galaxies (specifically their cores) appear as smudges

and for me that’s a clear indicator

[grizzled lance]

The stars literally out shine the whole thing

[dusk crow]

I just did it with Stellarium and my Phone long exposure😅

[shy snow]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/741727212629393533/1087442692105056316/35C45745-0BFE-463D-8BFD-1CAA6DC7F031.gif

[spice gale]

[desert talon]

M35

[grizzled lance]

What eyepiece did you use I had the same darkening effect in the middle when I used 32mm

[desert talon]

I used the default 25mm eyepiece that came with the telescope

[faint cypress]

Who got a lighter for this one right here

[grizzled lance]

The edges looks tiny blurry mb misaligned but you captured m35 well

[desert talon]

Yeah there was some star trailing around the edges

[dusk crow]

iPhone 13, 20s, 10pic = 3,3min total exposure, ISO 8200, b4 sky

[spice gale]

Not bad

What setup?

[lean magnet]

is this stacked?

pretty good for phone

[spice gale]

Doesnt look like stacked

[lean magnet]

yea that's why i asked

it's good data, would benefit a ton from stacking

[spice gale]

I agree

[fleet bramble]

Celestron Inspire 90 Mm Az and s22 ultra

[fleet bramble]

Nah

[spice gale]

Rly nice for this setup

You could film it and then use pipp and autostakkert to get cleaner results

[grizzled lance]

Stacking that would be op

[fleet bramble]

Would it be the same process as stacking stars? So like darks flats that stuff?

[dusk crow]

I didn’t know in Minencraft we have a Polar Star😅 Just 30s Exposures and we got so much trailing, looks like the minecraft Earth spins very fast🟩

[spice gale]

Thats cool

[spice gale]

No

You just take a video of the planet

And use pipp to align all the frames

And autostakkert to stack them

[grizzled lance]

Nah

You'll learn the whole process within a week

It's easy

[fleet bramble]

Is there a way to do it using photos and not a video? It's really hard to keep my phone stable bc I lost the phone mount

[spice gale]

Unfortunately no

A phone mount is a must

Necessary to have one

[grizzled lance]

Yeah I highly recommendinh taking a video then process

Bro that pic you took without adapter looks legendary

[faint cypress]

Didn’t get as much exposure time as I wanted but here’s a glimpse of the eagle nebula!!

You can even see the pillars of creation in the middle which is just sick

Also some planetary nebulae as well

[grizzled lance]

Woah wtff

Damnnnnnnn

[faint cypress]

Little mental note I’ll make for myself: the pillars of creation are next to the part of the cluster that look kinda like scorpius

[spice gale]

It does look like scorpius lol

[grizzled lance]

Edited a bit slightly

[spice gale]

I mean its better

[faint cypress]

I’ll sleep earlier tonight and I’ll get a better shot tomorrow morning I promise

This Monday I’m only functioning on under 3 hours of sleep 😭😭😭

[spice gale]

Should i buy a bahtinov mask for phone ap?

[zealous edge]

Bahtinov masks are used for finding perfect focus on your telescope, you could I guess but it might be redundant for phone AP since phone cameras usually won't come to the same focus as the telescope.

[spice gale]

Oh i see

[balmy ravine]

but the diffraction pattern will still account for that, no?

[zealous edge]

Perhaps, I'm just saying it might not be worth the trouble if you're just imaging with a phone camera

Unless you have a Xiaomi phone and your camera is stupidly good

[faint cypress]

Walking noise go BRRR

Omg I didn’t realize that was a message from like 2 years ago

Why is my phone scrolled up so high

[grizzled lance]

[grizzled lance]

Its kinda worth it ish

I have 1 but I think it's me it's kinda hard to see the spikes you need 3 perfect spikes

I js look like 2 sec exposure 3200 iso

But just put infinity zoom before checking focus I have other ways to get clean focus other than the mask

[spice gale]

Ok thanks for telling me

[blissful grotto]

hey can anybody stack a vid of jupiter for me ?

[lean magnet]

how big is it

[stable sundial]

69,911 Kilometers

[timid wedge]

m51 taken with 6" untracked dob and iphone 14 pro with astroshader

[blissful grotto]

Hey can someone check this #1364558098718527599

[spare ravine]

Damn, for how long did you image?

[timid wedge]

95minutes but 50mins got rejected by siril so 45mins total int

25mins of int m106

[grizzled lance]

We got similar results

B9 that's real good

For b9

[timid wedge]

can i see your m106?

[timid wedge]

in b4

[grizzled lance]

Ohhh

Mine B5 lemme send

25min integration time

Very thin clouds so stars is bit off and mid seeing

JJ edited it for me

I added little tweak

[timid wedge]

woahhh nice

[timid wedge]

did you use blurx??

[grizzled lance]

No idea someone else just did it for me

[spice gale]

Holy

Nice results

[desert talon]

C14 Double Cluster in Perseus

[spice gale]

Do you have a phone holder?

[coral cedar]

i got a meteor while shooting the milky way

[desert talon]

Yes, this was 150 exposures taken at a very low iso 0.5sec exposure

[spice gale]

That is so cooool

[spice gale]

Oh ok

Well it looks like you didn’t really align well the phone cam to the eyepiece

[desert talon]

Yeah it was off a little bit. Also, do you have any tips on how to remove the dark spot in the middle?

[spice gale]

By aligning properly

I had it before because i didnt align the phone to eyepiece properly

[desert talon]

Oh ok, thanks! I will try that this night

[spice gale]

keep me updated, and if you still have troubles @ me

[grizzled lance]

That happened to me when I used a high power eyepiece

Try use 25mm 20mm or lower

[potent shore]

same?

here it's more visible

[desert talon]

I use a 25mm eyepiece

[grizzled lance]

What's four focoacal ratio

Your focal

[ivory thunder]

focoacal

[desert talon]

F5

650mm focal length
130mm aperture

[grizzled lance]

Lmao same use 20mk next time

20mm

[desert talon]

Alr

Thanks

[grizzled lance]

Cuz some light cna be loss if using phone and high power eyepiece

Not with eye tho

[grizzled lance]

Unless maybe you precisely aligned

[desert talon]

Oh ok

[coral cedar]

Woahh its same yoo

[dusk crow]

I capture m51, it was almost 20min total exposure, 1s and ISO 10000. I think is good. I am in b6. Idk why stars are like comets. Maybe coma or I was not good Fokus. I use AstroShader on iPhone 13

[vague shard]

Can't seem to say whether I like it or is it too much edited

[coral cedar]

Its a composite soo

[spice gale]

Yea you cant convince me this was shot with a phone

[coral cedar]

its possible with phone

[spice gale]

How much int time?

[coral cedar]

15s

[spice gale]

In total

[coral cedar]

b9

1 hour

[spice gale]

No way

[coral cedar]

77 minutes

ye

[spice gale]

At what hour?

Cuz it rises very early in the morning

[coral cedar]

i live in equator here

so i wait to zenith

thats when the milky way visible

[spice gale]

Oh lucky

[coral cedar]

yes i have like extra 1-2 hours before the sun goes rise

so i take a pic

so its possible to take milky way

[spice gale]

Cool

B9

Insane

Congrats

Wait that cant be b9

[coral cedar]

thanks yo, i waited like 1 month plus already

the weather was very clear

[spice gale]

In 15 sec sub you see milkyway

[coral cedar]

i live in high floor also

im not at the ground

and the city lights(some of them) were shutted down

that helped me

[spice gale]

Oh cool

Yea very nice image

[coral cedar]

yeah its around here

class 8 to 9 atleast

[coral cedar]

thankss

[potent shore]

what phone and I don't believe thats in bortle 9, there's just no way

[coral cedar]

Oppo reno 3 btw

[coral cedar]

Yeah it is bortle 9

Its possible bro

Remember its stacked

Not a single frame

[potent shore]

I know I know, but when I take my single frame the Milky Way is just not even visible due to the brightness, how do you compensate for that?

[potent shore]

I see🧐

[coral cedar]

I shot my milky way at zenith

And i live in high building also

I shot this at 2 a.m

Light city some of them were shutted down also

That helped me while im shooting the milky way

Avoid street light also

[potent shore]

Ah ok

thanks for the tip👍🏼

[coral cedar]

Anyway do you live in northern hemisphere?

I think the milky way is way too low in northern

[grizzled lance]

Cygnus region is our only hope for mw in Northern hemisphere

Rest is doomed by the atmosphere

[spice gale]

Yk its actually beautiful

Like check this

[lean magnet]

🧍‍♂️

[spice gale]

🔭 🧍‍♂️

[potent shore]

ye

that's in bortle 5

only shot of the Milky Way I got

[spice gale]

Really good mw core

The beach is pure GOLD

[potent shore]

ik, it was the only bortle 5 close to me in less than an hour

[dusk crow]

Sombero Galaxie only 30s total exposure

[somber lantern]

This was my phone in b9, 5 minutes only since it was more of a test
Very possible under good conditions

[potent shore]

Ah ok but how much exposure is to much?

[spice gale]

More is better

You maybe meant iso

[potent shore]

so iso over shutter speed or shutter speed over iso?

I would assume we would want a bit more noise right?

[spice gale]

Speed over iso

[potent shore]

it's possible

yep

that's like 4 min and 30 exposure

2 sec 1600 iso

[grizzled lance]

I'll try stack mw when I have time but this looks very promising

You should take some darks aswell to remove noise

[zealous edge]

this was a MW shot I got a while ago

30 seconds exposure time, iPhone 12

[potent shore]

just testing but appreciate the tip

[faint cypress]

I only have an hour to photograph the horsehead from my backyard. 😳

Wish me luck guys

[gloomy kiln]

Does someone here tried to image NGC 4038/9 with a phone?

[zealous edge]

I mean, I'm sure it's possible.

With a crazy good phone camera like what the Xiaomi 12 has (the phone that Lucas Gonçalves uses), a huge reflector, and a sizable integration time, it could probably be done.

Has it ever been done before? Probably not.

[fading bobcat]

Buns processing and noise aside, these are my attempts tonighy at Leo's triplets and Whirlpool galaxy. Both only got about ~30 minutes of data and my darks were weird looking, so I didn't really trust them. Improvements to come, clear skies!

Both taken using an svbony 48p 90mm on a Skywatcher Star adventure GTI. 30s subs at 800 iso. 32mm svbony eyepiece and a uv/ir filter. Samsung note 20

This is far outside my comfort zone, so I will continue to work on things. Please be constructive, I appreciate it and it makes differences for next time!

[spice gale]

These look nice
What bortle

[fading bobcat]

Bortle 4

But, I'm perfectly placed by a street light so it's probably worse

[spice gale]

Well its still great

[bronze jackal]

i had a clear night for milky way last night but completely forgot and now clearoutside is 100% red again

[balmy ravine]

Very thin moon

[smoky scaffold]

Toenail

[distant epoch]

I'm gunna start calling it that now lmao

[bronze jackal]

20 minutes on north america nebula

183x 8s, will stack at the weekend as I really gotta lock in for uni

^^ Attempting to improve on this attempt, which was my first time trying stacking. This time around I've gone with the 3x Lens but 6x digital zoom, rather than the 10x lens as i really do get hit and miss results from that

[proven gull]

VEIL WITH A PHOONEEE!?!?!?!

[spice gale]

Damn what bortle

[bronze jackal]

b5

[spice gale]

Very nice

[balmy ravine]

The toenail returns

[dusk crow]

Earth Shine ✨

[zealous edge]

that third image is so cool

[balmy ravine]

There were thin clouds over north wales so wasn't able to get a good image

[balmy ravine]

Looks like a cleaner version of my pfp without hdr

[dusk crow]

I didn’t do hdr, I just captured with AstroShader. 0,5s exposure, 50pic and ISO 5000, than I just did sharping and here we go

[desert talon]

B8 sky with NYC light pollution

[zealous scaffold]

my best phone MW, 16 mins untracked from my backyard in a b6/7, i had to crop a bunch bc of my home and a tree

[proven gull]

Bortle 3 on iphone 30s

[faint cypress]

yup lol

[faint cypress]

w

[proven gull]

Holy

crazy

[proven gull]

ty

[ivory thunder]

rip (camera barely focused)

[bronze jackal]

Rigjt then how do I clean my eyepiece 😭 🥀

[nimble harness]

Very carefully with a microfiber cloth or find some way to blow air on it. DO NOT use compressed air

[balmy ravine]

Looks like water

Inside?

[bronze jackal]

I think they're just dust spots

[balmy ravine]

Weird you can see earths blue colour

[arctic zodiac]

Starlink sattelite came to say hello

[zealous edge]

why not compressed air?

[nimble harness]

I'm not actually sure but I've heard from other people it can ruin your mirrors and lenses

[zealous edge]

how would it ruin the lens of an eyepiece if you're using it normally?

like obviously don't press the nozzle right onto the glass of the eyepiece

but holding it away a few inches idk how that would damage it

[lean magnet]

❌

never use a microfiber cloth

sealed lens wipes or air only for quick cleaning

and for better cleaning the normal soapy water

[nimble harness]

I'm not too sure tbh

[nimble harness]

It's usually fine if you are super careful

[zealous edge]

maybe, maybe for lenses. I would not use a microfiber on a mirror

[nimble harness]

Yeah not on a mirror

[zealous edge]

better to wash mirrors with filtered water (if unfiltered mineral sediment might build up on mirrors surface if not dried properly)

[lean magnet]

a brand new one yeah

[zealous edge]

I actually saw someone say once that it's genuinely better to use your fingers to wipe particles off the mirror while running it lightly under water, since your fingers can instantly feel any particles and swipe them off carefully; using a cloth, you might not feel the particles, and then press too hard on them, potentially scratching the mirror

don't know how tried and true that is, but I've heard it from some people

[faint cypress]

For some reason the denoised image looks weirder than the wider field mine which wasn’t

[spice gale]

Damn you a re cooking with dsos

What setup

And bortle

[faint cypress]

Just gonna make a copy pasta every time someone asks

[faint cypress]

Setup:
Celestron Nexstar 8SE (On EQ Wedge)
iPhone 14 Pro (with camera app AstroShader)
No other editing software used

Bortle: 6

[spice gale]

The look amazing for the setup, congrats

[balmy ravine]

No toenail today, cloudy

[balmy ravine]

anglesey june 2024

[dusk crow]

Beehiver Cluster 30s

[faint cypress]

Caught a lava tube :)

[dusk crow]

Moon 22% last night

[nimble harness]

Wow what scope?

[zealous edge]

I love that you can see the Carina Nebula here

[balmy ravine]

I think I've caught several larger ones in sone of my images

[balmy ravine]

Actually same one 2 days ago

Yours is inverted

[proven gull]

does this count lol

[ivory thunder]

sunspots through eclipse glasses
also captured 4076, seen faintly in these photos

reference

[distant epoch]

I just took this with my phone, this is the best sun photo I have taken

Well, I took multiple photos and stacked them

[steel summit]

someone try and photograph a protoplanetary nebula

[spice gale]

Whats that

Ooh

Those dim long ones

[steel summit]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoplanetary_nebula

newborn stars

probably

[spice gale]

They are so hard to capture even with a pro setup

[balmy ravine]

What phone? Higher resolution than s23 ultra

[proven gull]

What.

[spice gale]

Dont make it weird aight?

Long dim nebuals

[proven gull]

not really dim

[spice gale]

They are compared to the others

[proven gull]

Idk

Isnt there alot in the orion nebula

Like they have tails n shi

[spice gale]

Yea apparently

[proven gull]

cool

q

[spice gale]

p

[somber lantern]

d

There's a lot in Orion yes but most are proto planetary disks

Very easy to photograph

If you have a 5" or bigger

[distant epoch]

Samsung A13

[somber lantern]

I managed to get two with my 4.5" now that I realize

They're just barely there

I need better seeing (and possibly more int)

But that's for next orion season

Wait no those are herbig haro objects

[iron bear]

It’s possible even with 4-inch. This was taken with my 114/900mm

[somber lantern]

I have your same scope damn

[zealous edge]

Well, a 4 inch scope and an insanely good camera

[faint cypress]

1, 2, or 3?

[faint cypress]

Also got an objectively better image than all of em

[spice gale]

Yea it kinda does look better

[timid wedge]

WAIT WHAT

[coral cedar]

Yo?

[timid wedge]

INSANE

[timid wedge]

can i see a single 15sec exposure?

[coral cedar]

its a little bit faint and kinda flushed out since the city light was so bright

[spice gale]

15 sec and you can already see the mw

I cant believe it

[coral cedar]

Yea, its possible, plus the weather was very

I meant like very clear

[timid wedge]

damn u might have beat me in sharpness, nice! get some more int or else

[timid wedge]

ill try too

[coral cedar]

Good luck with that

[grizzled lance]

Quick 20sec exposure 1600 Iso jpeg tho🥲

[proud ridge]

https://limewire.com/d/dLUYy#9o4I4ayL0Y

gogot this with my phone and a 60 mm spotting scope ..

[faint cypress]

All that’s needed is to beat your brightness/detail.. game on

[timid wedge]

i got a cam now so im gonna get way better pics

ill also soon get a mount

thanks for the idea

[formal notch]

data not bad but you phone is tilted, its visible at these areas

[formal notch]

its real btw

[timid wedge]

?

[timid wedge]

ik

[formal notch]

i thought something else nvm

studies have compleately derailed me on the social side

maaan

[timid wedge]

?

[timid wedge]

really impressive bro

[formal notch]

i study most of my day, very less chating with friends, i dont even go outside for most days, today was the first time i went outside in 2 months

[timid wedge]

oh u use 8"sct but still

[timid wedge]

damn

[formal notch]

gtg

[timid wedge]

cya

[proud ridge]

well it was very hard to place it exact ... clouds were rolling in ...

i kinda processed it on startrails app and then oon photoshop.... its okish

got this quick footage too ...

[proud ridge]

i think that's the shadow of the chromatic aberration... i used capcut to get rid oof it ...

[potent shore]

Want me to process this for u?

[proud ridge]

well i got even better footage, i u can then id be very great full

@potent shore https://we.tl/t-dbURUKKpY7

https://limewire.com/d/dLUYy#9o4I4ayL0Y .. alalternative link

[potent shore]

When im done ill send it

[proud ridge]

ok , thanks 😊

[potent shore]

The top is a bit blurry, I'm guessing because the phone shifted or something like that, but the rest of it looks fine

The edges are a bit off if you do zoom in

But generally its good

[potent shore]

I used this footage instead because the other one didnt really work for me well

[formal notch]

I see

[proud ridge]

@potent shore yo, thanks man its better than what i could process on my phone loll

UUM , what software ddid u use toz process it

[potent shore]

So I used PIPP to process the video by keeping the moon centered in the video, then I stacked it in Autostakkert, afterwards sharpened it using Registax. I didn't use any mobile apps though. But, it could improve if u did

[potent shore]

Not bad just looks a bit over processed

[faint cypress]

When you see no meteors but Venus rises above the horizon..

Next best thing fr

[proud ridge]

My sky... sqm 19.5~20 , brottle 5

4 second exposure

its centered on the galactic core but sadly no visible milky way

[distant epoch]

1st quarter

I also attempted to take a photo of ina

[distant epoch]

Also seeing was awful and had to do lucky imagining, here are some bad shots I took

[open quail]

Is the thin layer the lunar exosphere?

[faint cypress]

Does the moon have one of those?

ok that sounded condescending

That was a genuine question lol

[open quail]

The Moon's atmosphere is about 10¹⁴ times less dense than Earth's at sea level

But yes it does have one

I think it's just your hand shaking or smth

Or the moon moving

[dusk crow]

I try hdr moon just with Phone

[coral cedar]

Looks great!

Adding more int time, and doin composite pics

[bronze jackal]

I'm stacking my north america nebula photos now

[bronze jackal]

Need to fix the colour balance

Rather bloo

[balmy ravine]

Like our passports?

[somber lantern]

How low was your iso

[prisma raft]

some passports are red

[dreamy pebble]

I'm gonna use the phrase "lucky imagining" in the future

[blissful grotto]

Mars and a cluster

[distant epoch]

I actually took a picture of that, I forgot to download it off my camera though

[nimble harness]

Praesepe

[blissful grotto]

I can't remember the name lol

[spice gale]

Looks nice, you could have done a composition, a stack of mars and a better pic of the cluster

[balmy ravine]

timelapses i took on flight back from istanbul

[dusk crow]

How long was a exposure? You didn’t got any stats trails.

[balmy ravine]

Sunset from 2 years ago: https://youtu.be/-VGzP7NmQSQ

No wait 3

[balmy ravine]

Maybe 5 second, idk the video doesn't save exposure information

[wild flame]

An extremely crude proof-of-concept stack of NGC 7000, I wanna eventually shoot a few hours of clean data since this was shot through a thin layer of clouds
Roughly 40 minutes of intergration with an SWSA 2i and Galaxy S22 Ultra

[somber lantern]

Wowza

[desert talon]

Single image in camera app

[balmy ravine]

I should print an image of gru and put it in my eyepiece

[iron bear]

Full Moon night with South Crux and Alpha Centauri

Exif:
Xiaomi 12, fixed tripod
Single raw sub 20s iso 400.
Contryside of São Paulo, Brazil. Bortle 4 with full moon

[potent shore]

Setup??

[distant epoch]

Literally just a phone and a dob lol

I also forgot about these

[potent shore]

Ohh

it looks similar to my photos

that's why

yours is sharper though

[cursive venture]

Picture taken with Astroshader, then some post-processing just in the photos app

M104 Sombrero

[faint cypress]

👀

[balmy ravine]

06/08/2022

[rain silo]

i got some videos of that last crater i was so zoomed in i couldn’t fit it all lol

[distant epoch]

I just noticed something weird, the craters at the south pole are red

But not in a chromatic aberration type way

[formal notch]

Yea

[distant epoch]

Is it something with the photo of an actual feature, because I couldn't find anything anywhere on it

[formal notch]

Lemme check too

[formal notch]

Did you use any ai processing or auto processing stuff?

[distant epoch]

Nope, all I did was decrease the whites and increase the texture

[formal notch]

Isit there in the raw pic?

Lemme crosscheck with my pic

[distant epoch]

No raw, but here is the original image

[formal notch]

I checked it out, looks fine

Its there on this image too

I am assuming you took this pic with the generic camera app

Btw good pic

[distant epoch]

Thanks

I'm at a loss, if it's not chromatic aberration or iron deposits, then what's goin on?

Might just be a artefact, but it's weird that it's specifically in those craters

I'll ask my astronomy teacher and see if he knows

[somber lantern]

I think that's chromatic aberration, I sometimes get it too

[distant epoch]

Ok

[balmy ravine]

Jpg and raw

[somber lantern]

Close up and Ina attempt

[formal notch]

great attempt, but i think ina wouldnt be possible with a small scope and unmoded phone

anyone here who has an useless phone (which has a fixed focus camera like depth camera, or very cheap camera)can mod it

i havent tried it but theoretically, if we remove the lens, we should be able to mod it, the only catch beign apps like openlivestacker and dss dont detect depth cameras.The way i knew my phone didnt have a fake camera was when i used lmc8.4 and selected the second camera manually

[dusk crow]

I found Venus in Daylight

[somber lantern]

I got like a pixel of it, I think that on something like a super moon (this moon was specifically a micro moon, where it's at it's furthest point) it could maybe be done, I also didn't use the Barlow because I forgor
This is the size comparison (image by @sand furnace #🔭-astrophotography-chat message )

[formal notch]

I see

You got demoted?

Or am i dreaming

[somber lantern]

People keep saying that, I was never a mini nerd 😭

[formal notch]

Aww man

[zealous scaffold]

I said that too, apparently I'm not the only crazy one

[timid wedge]

i kinda remember u being mini nerd too lmao

[timid wedge]

mandela effect ahh

[zealous scaffold]

whats that

[somber lantern]

When everyone remembers something a certain way, even though it was never like that

[zealous scaffold]

buck i think we all remember it that way because you were mini nerd and you just forgot you were mini nerd

[balmy ravine]

Lunar crepuscular rays

My phone doesn't have high enough dynamic range, it looked so much better with naked eye

[formal notch]

Btw these pics are really good

[dusk crow]

Fully Progressed on my IPhone with InShot and Snapseed

[formal notch]

is this with only phone?

[lean magnet]

phone and binos

[formal notch]

i see

[sand furnace]

Phone through dslr viewfinder counts as phone astrophoto?

[proven gull]

New strategy????

[sand furnace]

Wouldn't recommend 😂 unstable, and the quality ain't nearly as good as the images u get from the actual dslr haha

[proven gull]

ya ik it was a joke

[sand furnace]

Mb 😭

[coral cedar]

1 hour exposure of full moon

[undone dagger]

am i in heaven?

[zealous scaffold]

Incredible

[coral cedar]

Thanks guys, i knew my hardwork of capturing it really worth it

[zealous scaffold]

I need to know the story behind this incredible idea, tell me, what enticed you to attempt something so extraordinarily difficult?

[coral cedar]

I saw a seeing

The seeing guide me

To capture the moon for 1 hour
Till realize, my guidance was wrong

[proven gull]

dad called me to dinner while i was tryna do smth

[frank jungle]

This month's full moon

[distant epoch]

I'm surprised on how it isn't blown out lol

[coral cedar]

U need 1 hour just like mine

To show the hidden crater

Jk jk

[lean magnet]

too bright imo

imo it loos better like thjs

[rain silo]

oh it finally lets me send them

oh

thought it’d be small like an emoji

[iron bear]

Moon Among the Clouds

Captured with MotionCam Pro using the Xiaomi 12 through my 114/900.

[zealous edge]

that's neat, seeing the clouds pass in front of it

[lean magnet]

i was NOT ready to be flashbanged at 0:17

[formal notch]

the mineral moon colour edit looks great

[formal notch]

is that how you capture your deepskyimages too?

[iron bear]

For dso, Deepskycamera pro...

[formal notch]

no shutter lag?

[coral cedar]

Thank you

[iron bear]

I don't have any issues with shutter lag... I believe it's only a problem with sub-exposures shorter than 1 second. Since I take 55-second subs, there's no delay

[formal notch]

I see

[robust fog]

V4 is out 😃

Make sure to update

https://youtu.be/1EovxEzDj98?si=vUF1NKvdZQG1MSwp

Now with highlight recovery/reconstruction 😎

[iron bear]

With highlight recovery and full sensor res

[robust fog]

Holy shit it helps massively in your case

[zealous edge]

dude that's so cool

genuinely looks like something you'd see in a movie trailer, or some kind of AceCombat cinematic

[rain silo]

fr it’s hella cool

[distant epoch]

It's so weird to see the moon upside down, one of the main reasons I want to go to New Zealand is for the night sky, it would be so surreal to see features I have never seen

Or at angles I've never seen

[zealous edge]

Well, you'd see the same features since the moon is tidally locked

But it would be weird to see it in a completely different orientation, yeah

[lean magnet]

i mean you can see a bit more of the south of the moon cant you

or is it too far for a noticeable difference

[distant epoch]

It looks about the same

[echo shell]

That looks so good for a video

[distant epoch]

I can't view it sadly

It's just black

[coral cedar]

Thank you

It was a very luck shot

[faint cypress]

Captured the Milky Way Core this morning c: (got some help from hugo_astr in removing gradients)

Used Nero ai denoiser to remove the walking noise though

[echo shell]

Circle

[zealous edge]

Wrong! It's actually a Googolplexagon

[echo shell]

😱😱

Spare me

[ivory thunder]

nuh uh its an apeiragon

[echo shell]

😱😱

Spare me

[ivory thunder]

no

[ivory thunder]

send him into intergalactic space

[echo shell]

NOOOOOO

HOW COULD U

[ivory thunder]

no galaxy you pass will be able to catch you

[echo shell]

[ivory thunder]

[echo shell]

True

I need for school

Thanks for the reminder

[ivory thunder]

how will you get to school if ur between galaxy clusters

[faint cypress]

You use Stellarium, duh 🙄

jk

[iron bear]

I made a kind of sunshade, but for my phone. I modeled it to fit my eyepiece exactly, so it fits perfectly on the eyecup... No more stray light hitting the eyepiece element!

[dusk crow]

Bro I swear! I am not 24/7 on phone!

My parents would think is real😂😭

[formal notch]

is it gonna come in focus with the eyepiece? (for the fully illuminated eyepiece projection)

[balmy ravine]

Sunset

[formal notch]

thats beautifull

[frank jungle]

Milky Way from Bortle 4 Skies

[honest ferry]

I wanted to photograph the sun but the Planes got in the way

[patent zodiac]

Are those frecce tricolori?

[dusk crow]

Bodes and Cigar Galaxy Live view! 1s and ISO 32000 b6

[honest ferry]

No 😉

It’s Patrouille Suisse

[dreamy pebble]

clearly, because they haven't slammed into each other

[honest ferry]

Frecce still flies tho

[dusk crow]

Bodes Galaxy 22min But Field Rotation

[formal notch]

Can you provide me with raw data plz , wanma try to stack

[dusk crow]

Yes sure, But I have 21 Tif Pictures how I send?

[formal notch]

Select them, zip them, upload to google drive, change the permissiom to anyone with link, send the link to me

[dusk crow]

Ok I will try

[formal notch]

Great, i might be able to fix the field rotation

[dusk crow]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LTumjaYXlYsOYvF7rrKOIIdIcnjGfgNw/view?usp=sharing

[bronze jackal]

Single 30s shot edited in lightroom

I also have a bunch of 15s subs I'm gonna stack at the weekend

[formal notch]

Thx will take a look in a min

[dusk crow]

No problem

[formal notch]

[formal notch]

Fixed the field rotation:
first is mean and second is sigma clipped

[dusk crow]

Oh Thank you! but is it normal that the frames are so dark?

[formal notch]

yeah

proper streaching and processing should give good result, i am processing rn

[dusk crow]

Ok Thank you

[formal notch]

here you go

[dusk crow]

Yo! you even corrected Coma for me

[formal notch]

yep, gtg

[dusk crow]

Thanks a lot, What program you use?

[formal notch]

For stacking Astrosurface
Processing-
Siril for star recomposition (corrected coma),streching etc

Seti sharpening suite (to sharpen, denoise and make stars tighter)

Gimp for final touches

[dusk crow]

Ok that what I called Processing 😅

[bronze jackal]

damn they're out of focus

oh well

you need to zoom in to notice it

[balmy ravine]

May also just be diffraction

[bronze jackal]

nah thats definitely out of focus

[dusk crow]

M13! 10min total exposure. I use a 1,5x Barlow lens to get closer

[formal notch]

great img, what equipment did u use?

[dusk crow]

114p/500 Telescope, 20mm eyepiece with a 1,5x Celestron Omni Barlow lens and my IPhone 13 with AstroShader and I am in b6

[formal notch]

nice, ill also try when i move to b4 next month

[dusk crow]

Very Nice! I have to Drive 90km to drive for a dark b4😭

[formal notch]

😭

the place i am going to has most year rainfall, idk if i would have clear skies often 😭

[dusk crow]

Yeah but might be good. I wish luck for you

[balmy ravine]

90km???? Where do you live middle of Tokyo?????

[dusk crow]

90km for a dark area

[balmy ravine]

Ig Shropshire is just close

[dusk crow]

I am sometimes in Istanbul and is even more worse

[somber lantern]

Cna I have the data I've never tried to process a cluster and have 0 data on my own

[desert talon]

This is what you get when you live in a metropolitan area of 23.5 million people

[spice gale]

Js go in the sea

[desert talon]

That’s true

Good idea

But uh even that is light polluted

I’m in the pink/white 😭😭😭

[spice gale]

Thats sad

[desert talon]

I’ve been to a Bortle 2 but it was a full moon

It’s a 5 hour drive

I feel like no one has worse lp than me

[dusk crow]

The Problem is this map is from 2015

There are some Cities that should be b10

[zealous scaffold]

yeah i always round up half or one whole bortle when using LP map

[dusk crow]

With a SQM measure Maschine you can see the Real Bortel in Real time

[desert talon]

Yeah I would be a B 9/10 then

[fleet bramble]

M6227020800?

[frank jungle]

Omega Centauri timelapse from Bortle 7 to 8 Skies

[formal notch]

Center of red area 😭

[desert talon]

Im in this one

[formal notch]

Aww man

[desert talon]

But honestly last night felt like all the light pollution just went away

[thorny bobcat]

Single 16 second exposure of m82

[balmy ravine]

Do they have a high surface brightness?

[timid wedge]

OMG I NEED THIS

[thorny bobcat]

First time getting the milky way with my pixel 8 pro

[zealous edge]

What phone and what telescope?

[thorny bobcat]

Pixel 8 pro and a Celestron 130 slt

[zealous edge]

Ah ok, the Pixel phones do have pretty great cameras from what I've heard

[thorny bobcat]

Yea that's one of the main reasons I got the phone

[thorny bobcat]

Coma Cluster 25.6 min of exposure
try to ignore purple on right and left of image its a infrared reflection from the phones distance sensor.

[dreamy pebble]

One of the best phone captures I've seen

[thorny bobcat]

M82 and M81 stacked and processed 100x16s 26.66 minutes

[thorny bobcat]

each galaxy individually cropped and at the same scale

[grizzled lance]

Broo wtf you can see the dust lanes

Some ca but image still respectable

[thorny bobcat]

Crescent nebula 50x16s 13.3 minutes

[silk ginkgo]

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[proud ridge]

Sadly thats just chromatic aberration...😅

[proud ridge]

1600

my sky ...

not the greatest

but ok for brottle 5

[open quail]

Yeah makes way more sense

[grizzled lance]

Very impressive bro

So much stars

I'm gonna have to lock in but this bad weather is killing me

Phone ap has sooo much potential

[proven gull]

No way thats bortle 5

Bc this is low bortle 7

[ivory thunder]

if that's bortle 7 then I must live in bortle 26 because if I set my iso to 1600 it'd look like I took a picture of the core of the sun

[prisma raft]

i live in a bortle 5 sky

thats NOT bortle 5

[ivory thunder]

sunspots

[zealous edge]

any optical tool at all? Telescope, binos, or was this just phone camera through solar film?

[somber lantern]

I want a new phone so bad but almost all of new phones have something AI in them

I don't AI processing I don't AI generate I take pictures and if they're not .raw I don't want them

[silk ginkgo]

Reminder to vote in round 2 of the thread competitions #1369694419963613295 message

[ivory thunder]

phone camera through eclipse glasses

[zealous edge]

Ah ok, must have some decently high digital zoom then

[ivory thunder]

yep

[balmy ravine]

New toenail growth

[dreamy pebble]

possible Requis fingleberry spotted?