Phone Astrophotography

[ancient rampart]

Shot and edited in an S20 fe

[dusk crow]

Single 10s Exposure in B4

[versed jetty]

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[desert talon]

Was the moon above the horizon when you took this?

[dusk crow]

No I did wait until it’s sets

[iron bear]

55s ISO 800 RAW on sculptor
*Screenshot

[coral cedar]

there are no distortion wow

incredible

[nimble harness]

How do you align your camera so well

[iron bear]

With a reflector, it's easy... Just aim at a bright star, defocus the image, and keep centering the phone until the star appears perfectly round and not clipped (as it usually looks when misaligned). I'll see if I can find a video here

In this video you can understand it... Every time my phone gets misaligned, that cut appears on the (unfocused) star. You just need to make it 100% round without clipping the sides or top/bottom. My telescope was slightly out of collimation when I recorded this video, but the method is still clear

I should've even raised the phone a bit in that video to make it 100%, but when I recorded it, I didn’t have the Tridaptor. I used one of those basic adapters.
As soon as I can, I’ll record an updated one.

[nimble harness]

Ohhh I see. Does this work even if I'm untracked?

[desert talon]

I’m in a Bortle 4.5 currently. What can I expect to see when the moon sets?

Is the Milky Way core visible?

[nimble harness]

It should be pretty visible

[coral cedar]

Very visible

[desert talon]

Alr thanks for the feedback

[coral cedar]

Hdr mineral moon

[desert talon]

My night was absolutely amazing, but it could have been much better. We found a parking lot in a b5.3 zone but with absolutely no lights at all, which was perfect. I’m surprised I couldn’t see the core, but I could see the MW from Scutum to even Cassiopeia. Most stars I’ve ever seen in my life, and also first time seeing the MW in person.

[remote cypress]

180, 10 second images stacked using AstroShader also edited using the app and camera app editing tools

[dreamy pebble]

I can't wait to see your reaction to Bortle 1 or 2 skies.

Did you see the Lagoon naked eye?

[desert talon]

I did see a very faint patch of light that way, so I assumed it was that

I am unfortunately back in my b8.6 😔

Also saw what I think was a meteor around the constellation Cepheus-Cassiopeia

[dusk crow]

Milkyway from B4
iPhone 13
10min data

[remote cypress]

Titans Shadow on Saturn this morning

had to rush outside to get the image so my scope did not cool down fast enough so here is a blurry image of it !

here is a better version

[dreamy pebble]

Nice capture...for reference this is what I managed with an 8" RC and astrocam...

[dreamy pebble]

Quick shots of the lunar terminator last night through a 12" RC

[iron bear]

Andromeda Galaxy (M31)

🔭 Toya 114/900mm Newt + Exos-2 with OnStepX
📷 Xiaomi 12 + 18mm UFF eyepiece
⚙️ 310×55s @ ISO 800 (~4.7h)
🇧🇷 Munhoz, Bortle 4~

[lean magnet]

how do you process with the circle

[iron bear]

I just ignore its existence, and at the end of the processing, I apply a circular mask over the area to darken it a bit

[dusk crow]

Just made a small time lapse 10min in B4

[iron bear]

Near the end of processing, the edges end up like this, without contrast.
Then I do what I mentioned above: a simple circular mask and darken them again.

[iron bear]

Messier 27
🔭 114/900mm Newt + Exos-2 with OnStepX
📷 Xiaomi 12 + 18mm UFF eyepiece
⚙️ 316×55s @ ISO 800 (~4.8h)
🇧🇷 Munhoz, Bortle 4~

[rain silo]

insane

[coral cedar]

Brother it's frickin cool

[spice gale]

Beautiful shot

[desert talon]

Absolutely amazing!

[dreamy pebble]

Not gonna lie I feel like this is #🏆-hall-of-fame material.

[dusk crow]

Back then wen Comet C/2023 Atlas A3 was in the Sky

[ivory thunder]

feels like ages doesn't it

[blissful grotto]

my first image ever

[spice gale]

Rly cool

[blissful grotto]

thanks

[dusk crow]

Saturn and Neptun
10min total data, iPhone 12Pro Max (65mm Kamera)

This is the only thing I can do in B9 and full Moon 🌝

I also saw Saturn with a public bino on the City, the ring was very small I think it was araund 25x

[spare sleet]

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[jade dew]

First photo through a very cheap Tasco 60mm Refractor. Edited in Snapseed.

[dry falcon]

What would be the best way to capture the perseids meteor shower with just a phone

(Specifically iPhone 14)

[sand furnace]

loop long exposures at the radiance point

shoot widefield

[dusk crow]

Andromeda Galaxy with my IPhone 12 Pro Max in B9!
3h data with 6s subs

[spare sleet]

did you process it?

[dusk crow]

I did captured the images with AstroShader I photographed the galxy in 5 different nights and saving the end Results in TIFF, I stack the images on Siril and process it too

[spare sleet]

nicee, mind sharing the data? Id love to try it tmr

[dusk crow]

I had so much problems with the Raw stack Image, I can try again to save it, and send you

[spare sleet]

alr thanks! Im not the best in processing but I love to try

[dusk crow]

Here bro Have fun, I know the raw is scary

[spare sleet]

thanks, will check it out tmrr

[iron bear]

NGC 4945

🔭 114/900mm + Exos-2 with OnstepX
📷 Xiaomi 12 +18mm UFF Eyepiece
⚙ 200×55s @ ISO 800 (~3h)
🇧🇷 Munhoz, bortle 4 ~

[spice gale]

Thats so sharp, great data

[thorny bobcat]

Really Early in the Year Untracked Orion Nebula at taken at 5am only like 10 degrees above the horizon
Pixel 8 Pro 382x0.5s 3 min 11sec exposure.

[thorny bobcat]

cropped version

[sage wren]

122

[summer palm]

Xperia 1 IV 5.1mm 30s shutter f/1.7 ISO:640
53°46'20" N 1°54'22" W

[sage wren]

I now have your location

[upbeat wigeon]

Some nice skies you've got there!

[summer palm]

There are some nice dark patches locally, but can be difficult. Hoping to have a road trip to Keilder Forest which has a great dark sky rating

[upbeat wigeon]

Ooh best of luck, hope you can see the milky way

[summer palm]

ha just saw this.. I'm not too worried about revealing photo location. Come get me 😏

[sage wren]

Found my exposure

[sage wren]

Hell nah, you're probably out in the middle of nowhere

[spare sleet]

@novel dagger is your 16" a flextube from skywatcher ?

[novel dagger]

ye

[spare sleet]

oh, alright, have you captured uranus through it?

oh wait thats the wrong thread

[novel dagger]

yes

[atomic rampart]

Blood moon 😉

[sick kernel]

Nice!

[iron bear]

Tip for those having trouble doing DBE/Background extraction with the eyepiece edges getting in the way: Create a mask to cover the edges. I made this one with the (GAME) plugin, but a range mask should work as well. It removes gradients much better without interfering with the eyepiece edges.

[sick kernel]

I was casually taking videos of the moon with my phone and telescope when all of a sudden a airplane decided to go across the moon

[sick kernel]

I think this is the only time when clouds made sum look better lol. Nice pic btw!

[sage wren]

Thanks

[sage wren]

Hmmm...AI modified...thanks?

[simple crow]

liar

liess

[atomic rampart]

🤫

[balmy ravine]

Iss lunar transit

[spice gale]

So sad the moon appeared

[sick kernel]

Just centre dotted my telescope mirror, took a pic and outlined and made a cross shape and relized i did pretty good! Im so proud lol (btw my first time centre dotting)

[grizzled lance]

I took this pic in my garden im in a b5 zone milky-way direction is towards 5-6

Just 20min walk away from any lights creates a bit of difference

Both i had to edit it to bring details

And in jpeg🥲

[dusk crow]

I just captured andromeda Galaxy with my 7x50 binocular in B6
38min total exposure
1s sub
ISO 32000

[coral cedar]

Last night moon

[upbeat wigeon]

Holy

[balmy ravine]

Iss

[grizzled lance]

@drifting tartan

This is what single sub looks like with everything centered

Bruh why it send liek that hold on

I js took a ss

Dc degraded it making it look very noisy

I probably sent this like 3x

[drifting tartan]

yeah, I could defenitly look into recentering the frame and search for some square image settings, that would improve the results a bunch probably

The thing is that they will still not be a nice square after processing because I don't have a guide system

like, this is my current setup. And because my phone camera is so weak I do have to take many pictures to get results. The second and third pictures are the first and last image from my stacking.

[grizzled lance]

You cna try do planetary

I have same aperture just f/5

You have longer fl

But dso is still possible w your rig

Saturn is out rn

Whta phone do you have

[dusk crow]

Last Full Moon with the IPhone 12 Pro Max

[drifting tartan]

I've indeed done planetary already too as it doesn't really require stacking to be bright enough.
I have a galaxy A22 5G from 2022.

[iron bear]

Sculptor Galaxy *Reprocessing

🔭 114/900mm + Eq3 with onstep
RGB: Xiaomi 12, 1.5h with 18mm UFF eyepiece
L: 290mm, 1h
Bortle 4~

[dusk crow]

The Sun today
50x Magnification
iPhone 13

[grizzled lance]

B5 but zenith/seeing conditions made it look like b4
30s 1600 iso jpeg:(
Not bad for budget phone but I'll release another stacked mw

[sage wren]

Not crusty, gg

[balmy ravine]

I'm making this on wplace

[balmy ravine]

#🌞-solar-chat

[sage wren]

Cooked

[sage wren]

Taken with a phone 🤳

[dusk crow]

The live view from Bortle -1 is so Good!!!

[upbeat wigeon]

GOLD

[sage wren]

😭

[zealous edge]

Wow, so clear and dark!

[plush palm]

Google pixel 9a, not THAT bad but I will still use my old phone for astrophotography

At least not bad in photography

[balmy ravine]

I wonder what the live view of hubble or some other large telescope would actually look like

[distant epoch]

There ain't no way

[wispy atlas]

idk if this counts

[spare sleet]

wdym -1😭

[spare sleet]

no die

[spice gale]

Trough what telescope

[spice gale]

No get out

[simple crow]

how did u do this tho is that like a screen from far away

[dusk crow]

Yes I just Zoom on my MacBooks screen with 66x magnification

Looking at the Eyepiece and seeing it is so Cool and so impressive to

[spice gale]

[upbeat wigeon]

actually gives a really impressive effect

[dusk crow]

Yes you need to try it to, is sometimes different

[lean magnet]

Amazing how your telescope suddenly went from 3 to 4 spikes!

[hollow mural]

Could someone help me see if i could edit away the streetlight in the bottom of the image?

Or atleast make it less bright

[rain silo]

is that andromeda?

[hollow mural]

Yes and milkyway too

[rain silo]

yeah i got a couple pictures of milky way and andromeda too but they’re kinda ass

andromeda isn’t in either

[hollow mural]

Yeah conditions were perfect that night could see milkyway arms (not core) in full moon and B7 idk how

Prob bc the moon was very low but still

[rain silo]

fr i could too it was crazy

what day did you do it on?

[hollow mural]

Idk was a few weeks ago

[rain silo]

i did it on thursday

[hollow mural]

Nice

[rain silo]

i’ve never seen it so perfect before

[hollow mural]

What phone did u use and what bortle are you in? Looks like a iphone

[rain silo]

never even seen the milky way with my own eyes before that

[rain silo]

yeah it is iphone 13 pro max

and

i’m not sure about bottle

bortle

[hollow mural]

Same never saw the milkyway even the core but i did faintly see the arms that night

[hollow mural]

Ahh nice

[rain silo]

how do i check bortle again

the only app i found used like 10+ years old sources

[hollow mural]

You can look on https://www.lightpollutionmap.info even tho its a bit outdated but would give you a good idea

[dusk crow]

You can also use this its maybe more accurate

https://lightpollutionmap.app/?lat=53.433265&lng=12.888336&zoom=6

[rain silo]

6.8

[hollow mural]

Ahh nice same as me

[dusk crow]

I am 6.5

[hollow mural]

5.8 where i live but still think its outdated bc doesnt look like b5.8 more 6.5 somewhere

[rain silo]

but i’m soon going to head to bortle 4 for a night

[hollow mural]

Niceee

[rain silo]

gonna bring my telescope and try get andromeda

i’ve already seen it with binoculars

so i imagine with my telescope it should be pretty good

[hollow mural]

Got this with very bad conditions and a store grade telescope

[rain silo]

did you just use a phone?

[hollow mural]

Idk why it looks so weird prob artifacts from stacking stacks

[hollow mural]

Yup just a phone and a manual mount

[rain silo]

for camera

[rain silo]

nice

so

hopefully i can get a decent picture

[hollow mural]

Yeah you prob can whats your scope?

[rain silo]

it’s not the best but let me check

so the very cheap one

then celestron powerseeker 127eq

i’ll be taking both of them because why not

when it isn’t cloudy all day

[hollow mural]

O 70mm Apeture is pretty low but i think you could be able to get something without moon and b4 360mm fl is pretty good for andromeda

[rain silo]

wouldn’t the 127eq be better or is it just better for planetary stuff?

[hollow mural]

Is it tracked or untracked?

[rain silo]

i’m interested in space but don’t know much about telescopes lol

[rain silo]

it’s got a thing but i don’t have a clue on how to fit it

[hollow mural]

What is the “thing”

[rain silo]

a motor

[hollow mural]

Because untracked with a 1000mm focal length scope (like yours) is reallt hard and not really doable

[hollow mural]

Oo you know what kind of motor?

[rain silo]

uhhh i’m not to sure

let me

quickly finish cleaning my room

and i’ll check

i’ll be a couple minutes

[hollow mural]

Sure no problem

[rain silo]

lol

that’s the motor and i’m not sure how it works or anything

[hollow mural]

Let me look

[hollow mural]

Tried reading the manual? Im not very familiar yet with tracking mounts since i dont have one yet😭 but its definitely worth checking it will help you ALOT having a tracking mount

“Motor Drive
Turn your manual German equatorial mount into a tracking mount by adding the included RA motor drive to your telescope. This easy-to-install RA motor drive compensates for the Earth’s rotation, so the telescope tracks a star’s movement through the night sky from east to west. When the telescope mount is properly polar aligned and the RA drive is attached and running, the user need only make occasional adjustments in declination (Dec) to keep an object in the eyepiece for long periods of time. The Celestron single-axis motor drive runs on a 9V battery, so there are no cords to get in the way. The drive can be used in either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere. To change hemispheres (reverse the motor’s direction), simply by flip the N/S switch on the face of the motor drive. It is also simple to change the speed of the motor. A “Speed Rate Regulator” knob is located just under the power indicator and can be turned in either direction to slow down or speed up the motor. Since solar system objects like the Moon and planets move through the sky at different rates than deep-sky objects do, this gives you the ability to match the motor’s speed to the particular type of object you are observing.”
It says this on the website maybe this helps you a bit on how the motor works just have to figure out how to instal it and polar align it

[rain silo]

thank you i’ll try do it tonight and if i get it working hopefully ill get some good andromeda pictures

[wispy atlas]

bullying

[wispy atlas]

bullying

[sage wren]

That's a normal picture of the milky way honestly

[rain silo]

so not too bad?

i led on a bin at midnight in cold weather for it lol

it was straight up in the sky

[spice gale]

Tried

[rain silo]

what apps can i use for stacking pictures on a phone?

[dusk crow]

You want to stack images? Or capture?

[lean magnet]

Astroshader

Openlivestacker on android

You cant stack already shot photos tho only live stack with those two

or you could upload them to Google drive and ask someone to stack them for you

[rain silo]

i’m just wondering for when i capture andromeda

which will be some time in the future when there’s not clouds

thank you

[hollow mural]

Thanks man milkyway is way more visible

[hollow mural]

Did you figure out how to get the scope on the motor?

[rain silo]

not yet i think it’ll have to wait till tomorrow becuase im tired i had to move a cabinet fish tank rat cage then clean my room out then workout and also walk my dogs

i should use grammar

[hollow mural]

Ahhh i get it but do you know how to make subs with astroshader? Or livestacks?

[rain silo]

no i don’t really know anything at all about that stuff lmao

[hollow mural]

Ahh alright did you ever use astroshader or also no?

[rain silo]

also no

while i’ve had my telescope the only target ive used it on is the moon so ive never thought of using it

[hollow mural]

Hmmm maybe you could download that already and get familiar with the layout for tomorrow

[hollow mural]

You have 2 telescopes and only tried the moon with them?

[rain silo]

the cheap one i used it on orion and the Pleiades but i was a very big beginner then so i had no clue what i was doing one bit

and my bigger one i got a little after and most the time ive had it it’s been cloudy

[hollow mural]

Ahh yeah i did my orion with the lunar cap on when i was a beginner😭😭

[rain silo]

and when it’s not cloudy full moon

[rain silo]

i did that a couple times

[hollow mural]

This was my orion still decent tbh but it was like 20 minutes for this😭

[rain silo]

that’s pretty good

i never got anywhere close to that

just a blurry zoomed out photo

[hollow mural]

Yeah i mean for lunar cap and store grade store

[hollow mural]

You’ll get there one day i mean this was my very first (also with lunar cap)

[rain silo]

well hopefully tomorrow goes well and i can get my finder scope perfectly aligned and also the motor working

if so then that’ll be a massive help

[hollow mural]

Yeah motor working would be amazing specially for 1000mm will definitely help you alot and get great images

[rain silo]

alright i’m gonna go finish all the stuff im doing then i might be back

can i add you?

[hollow mural]

Alright

[hollow mural]

Sure

[rain silo]

thank you

[hollow mural]

If you want i could also explain a bit how astroshader works for tomorrow or atleast what i would do

[rain silo]

that’ll be pretty helpful

[hollow mural]

Alright just tell me when your done finishing your stuff and ill tell you

[rain silo]

thank you i will be like quite a bit becuase im gonna shower

but i’ll message as soon as i can

[hollow mural]

Alright nw take your time

[grizzled lance]

Hell nahh donf get that

Get a dob i beg

Atleast 8inch

Mount is 💩On all the power seeker and eq

Maybe some but the scopes are bird jones

[hollow mural]

He already has it

[grizzled lance]

Ohhh

Better than my first 1 ngl

[hollow mural]

Wants to try andromeda with it so its either 127eq with the included tracker or a random store scope

With 70mm aperture

[grizzled lance]

What b?

[hollow mural]

7

[grizzled lance]

He'll probably get good results

[hollow mural]

But i think hes going to a 4

[grizzled lance]

I had dust lanes in b6

[hollow mural]

Got this with my shitty store grade scope in a b7

So he can definitely get something

[grizzled lance]

Dang not bad

Background is cooked but not bad for 70mm

[hollow mural]

Thanks it was 40 minutes of data tho so its not insanely good but if i get more the artifacts and things just get worse bc im stuck with stacking stacks

[hollow mural]

My scope is 80mm

[grizzled lance]

Still not bad tho

[hollow mural]

Yeah cant wait for orion to come in season with the things i learned

Last time i did orion i didnt even know i had to take the lunar cap off

[grizzled lance]

With good seeing its defo worth it for visual

[hollow mural]

So my aperture was basiclly 20mm

[hollow mural]

Yeah hope so but will try photographing with things i learned hope can get a better result then this

This was 20 minutes

Of data

[grizzled lance]

Yooo

[hollow mural]

With lunar cap

[grizzled lance]

Chromatic aberration 😭

Yo its actually good

[hollow mural]

Yeah😭

[grizzled lance]

Lemme find a single sub of 1

[hollow mural]

This one is edited by herioc frog same data

[hollow mural]

Yeah i had to do subs of 1 sec bc i was untracked had to transfer and process like 4000 frames😭

[grizzled lance]

Such an ass pic

[hollow mural]

Fr same here single sub

[grizzled lance]

We all start somewhere

[hollow mural]

Yeah

[grizzled lance]

Im ginna have ro lock in for gcse then cook ap next December

[hollow mural]

I think my best pic so far is either dumbell or m51

[grizzled lance]

M57 is a great target

[hollow mural]

I have one with more data on m51 but its somehow worse

Idk how

Looks more bloated yk

[grizzled lance]

Out of focus probably

[hollow mural]

Yeah probably

Still nice image for a phone and untracked store grade

I think i did kind of pushed my setup to the limit now tho so have to save up for a actual good setup

[hollow mural]

Only orion left as a actually good target because im untracked im stuck to 0.75 sec exposures and well if you want to get a 30min image you can calculate how many frames and its a pain specially if they are 100mb each or its stacking stacks which also isnt ideal

[zealous edge]

that's very decent for a phone AP image

[lean magnet]

it's mid for phone ap but for a department store scope it's great

[zealous edge]

Idk if I'd call it mid personally, it's better than the vast majority of what most phone AP looks like

(most of it looks awful)

[lean magnet]

you can easily do that if you have a basic idea of what you're doing

most is awful bc they have no idea what they're doing

[zealous edge]

I mean, yeah I guess

I did this with nothing but my iPhone 12 and my StarBlast dob, but objectively it still looks worse than most Orion Nebula images taken with an actual AP rig, even with less than ideal processing

[dusk crow]

North America Nebula with my 7x50 binocular
40min data
1s sub with ISO 32000
iPhone 13
Bortel 6

Tons of stars and Coma😅

[dim breach]

Uh no?

[fading bobcat]

Oh yeah as some people have said that is very nice. You'd be surprised at what phones can get now. While the processing on mine sucked, here's what I got with a phone

[coral cedar]

Thats crazy

[sage wren]

Circle

[balmy ravine]

huh it was a screen??? why no moire effect? were the pixels smaller than the diffraction limit?

[balmy ravine]

use siril background extraction

[dusk crow]

What you mean?

[balmy ravine]

why no red?

[balmy ravine]

usually video recordings of screens result in weird moire effects

[dusk crow]

Idk. It works usually?

[hollow mural]

I would but i dont have acces to a pc rn so have to do that when i get back from vacation

[fresh tide]

the moon through my skywatcher 130eq 900mm using EQ3 pro computorised mount and i phone 13 camera, how did i do?

[thorny bobcat]

Might have Got 3I/Atlas (C/2025 N1) though could just be noise lining up with the expected position not really confident enough to put in solar system pics. 39x16s 10.4 minutes

[grizzled lance]

Not bad

You can improve focus tho

There's some ca celestron omni plossl eyepieces are gold for money

[fresh tide]

yeah thanks

[fading bobcat]

Circle?

[zealous edge]

The colors are quite nice

[dusk crow]

Saturn with my 114/500 Telescope
166x magnification, IPhone 13 Kamera
3000 images stacked

[analog sable]

I just saw saturn for the first time ever

Quick little pic

Seeing titan and the rings so clearly was so nice

Definetely my favorite planet to look at

[wispy atlas]

live view of the milkyway with my phone

[dusk crow]

This image I did take last year with a 40mm eyepiece I could get focus

[hollow mural]

What app do u use to make such a video with longer exposure time

[summer palm]

my luck, nice skies, go out and develop a headache whilst out (and forgot my remote)... wish i'd have just battled through it and captured more... only managed 11 lights but with more data i think this would have been a good shot 🙁

good practice run with DSS though :B

[rotund delta]

orion nebula

[dusk crow]

With time you will get better images, believe, This was my fist Orion Nebula picture

[desert talon]

This is one of my first orions, I miss having diffraction spikes, cause for some reason I don’t get them anymore

[plush palm]

Google pixel 9a is heavily underrated, don't mind the clouds on m31 I could get better pics but them damn cloud decided to ruin everything, unedited btw

[thorny bobcat]

263x16s 1.17 hours of the milky way from bortle 6-7 not the best background extraction.

[fading bobcat]

Slightly trailed, but focus looks nice

An amazing first few shots

[balmy ravine]

Why are there satellites visible in a 1 hour exposure?

[balmy ravine]

I think just the regular iPhone camera app

[thorny bobcat]

planes and sequator being weird

[coral cedar]

jupiter

[simple crow]

bortle what?

[spare sleet]

S-s-six or s-seven..

[plush palm]

Will try to do longer today depending on how much weather God hates me

And this one was yesterday at 3am

[iron bear]

Timelapse with my last m27 subs...
Subs of 30s at the beginning and 55s at the end (On the first night I captured with 30s by mistake. I only noticed at the end of the night )
114mm F8 + Xiaomi 12
Bortle 4 + lots of red lights that my friends wouldn’t turn off

The jumps are just my manual dithering.

[grizzled lance]

13s 1600iso x10
2min sub
Stacked in dss
Honor 90
Like b4 conditions good seeing
I added a slight touch but JJ processed it for me

[scenic glen]

Does anyone have any experience in photos of the iss here ? (Pictures taken with a phone ofc.)

[distant epoch]

I highly doubt one could take a photo of the iss with a phone without it being a trail or dot

[scenic glen]

I mean this guy took a nice vid of its transit . You can make out the solar panels & some modules of you Look close

[dusk crow]

I did but my focus was off

[scenic glen]

Damn

[dusk crow]

Maybe next week I can try again

[scenic glen]

That’s my best shot 😭🙏✌️

[dusk crow]

It’s hard, you will be get better images

[scenic glen]

Good luck then✌️ , I’ll probably try aswell . But I need to 3d print some support brackets for my scope mount , they broke off

[scenic glen]

🙏ty

[dusk crow]

What is you scope?

[scenic glen]

Let me look

Telescope 80 mm aperture 600 mm

Its got these specs

Very bad , but very cheap

[flat pendant]

What phone holder do you use !1

[iron bear]

This one... Tridaptor 3Axis

[flat pendant]

[zealous edge]

how do you get such nice star colors in your images?

[iron bear]

Bortle 4... The star colors just pop even in a single sub
For processing, I usually do a masked stretch, it helps preserve the star colors better after the stretching. But for this video, I literally just opened the raws in LR and exported them to make the video

[zealous edge]

Ah, that'd do it

[balmy ravine]

Tree shadow creates pinhole projection of sunspots

I calculated the trees to be about 10 meters away

[thorny bobcat]

Eagle nebula Reprocessed 152x16s

[vague shard]

How do get this type of HDR effect , I'm fairly new to lunar , I have video of 30s is it enough data for this or do I have to bracket?

[coral cedar]

i use phone with telescope, take moon pic as many as you can with Raw settings(adjust your setting with your current phase moon) i recommend 100+, and you need to recenter the moon also, because eyepiece make distortion. Second you wanna take the over exposure moon pic. 1 pic should be enough. Next step, you wanna stack those moon pic in laptop/PC, i usually use PIPP, it usually align all of your moon images, export is as a TIFF(note, make sure to uncheck the monochrome setting), and click process, 2nd you wanna open autostakkert, this app stacks all of your TIFF image to make 1 image, you wanna analyse first, then look at the graph, if it does look good i usually stack like 50-75 percent of them, and you should get the Final Tiff image, and you wanna take the TIFF Files into Registax 6, what it does? its sharpening the moon image, take it slowly, dont overdo it, it will become oversharpened, Save it as a Tiff Files with different name. Open Photoshop, open the sharpened moon image, if its Like waxing crescent, you need 3 images, full moon, your current moon phase, and over exposure, first thing align your current phase moon with the full moon(align it with low opacity), if you think its aligned, then set the opacity of FULL moon image like around 10-20 percent, then merge them into 1 complete image (ctrl + shift + e), then you need to mask the MERGED moon image to seperate the moon and the background and voila your almost done. To make the glow part, you wanna take the overexposure image and set it below the moon layer, align it then you are done, adjust the exposure, highlight etc as you want

But if you are doing videos, its ok also, its still same procedure except the pipp one, open the vid files, uncheck the monochrome settings, crop the image if needed, export is as AVI files, and the rest is same still

[coral cedar]

Yes

But if you are doing with your phone, you can do it at pixelab, Ibis paint

Procedure its still same with PC one

[spice gale]

Looks amazing, what bortle

[dusk crow]

Jupiter this morning

[thorny bobcat]

Bortle 6

[spice gale]

Really nice

[dusk crow]

This is how Prime Fokus with a phone look like

[grizzled lance]

Dang

[dusk crow]

M27 Dumbbell nebula
1s sub, ISO 32000
Total exposure: 13min
Bortle: 6
iPhone 13 Kamera

[zealous edge]

shoddy videos of the sun through the DIY solar scope, made from an old artillery spotter-scope and the film from eclipse glasses.

please excuse the shakiness lol

[shadow idol]

i thought ur not supposed to use eclipse glasses for telescopes lmao

[thorny bobcat]

Dust in the andromeda galaxy close up 136x16s 32 min 16 sec bortle 6

[thorny bobcat]

Also M102 / ngc 5866 with the dust lane resolved 54x16s 14.4 min

[spice gale]

Nice

[dusk crow]

Andromeda 30s
B6

[dusk crow]

🚀

[coral cedar]

Very cool plane tresspassing

[scenic glen]

Nice

[grizzled lance]

Guys yk how you save a tif file after stacking when save on phone

Does it crash your phone sometimes

[iron bear]

Northern Milky Way from the Southern Hemisphere

📷 Xiaomi 12 + EQ3 with Onstep
⚙ 30x55s iso 400 for the Sky
1x20s iso 800 for the Foreground
🇧🇷 Bortle 4 sky

[dreamy pebble]

imagine being in the southern hemisphere and shooting the northern Milky Way 💀
Awesome image though

[sage wren]

Andromeda jumpscare

[desert talon]

Very nice job on this!

[manic yoke]

what is the best way to get the milky way with iphone? ive tried a couple times and they all look trash

[shadow idol]

tripod + raw photo mode + long exposures + good editing

[manic yoke]

What edits should I do?

[shadow idol]

stack in sequator if you have foreground, or any other software if its just sky. then do ur typical dso edits

[spice gale]

I tried this exact method but iphone still denoises it so much

And it saves the files in dng which is annoying

[shadow idol]

even with pro raw or whatever its called?

[spice gale]

Idk dont have it

[shadow idol]

oh the old iphones dont i think

there might be apps that could give you more control

[spice gale]

Astroshader?

[spice gale]

I mean i got the 15 pro

[dusk crow]

I capture this with IPhone 13 and AstroShader App, from Bortle 4-5
You need a Dark Place to get a good image for Milkyway

[spice gale]

What were the subs

[dusk crow]

10sx48 iso 1100

[spice gale]

Nice

I wonder if you could move the tripod just a bit to get rid of the walking noise

Kinda like dithering

[dusk crow]

I even stack all images with Siril still noisie I know

I also have this, its much better almost no noise

[zealous scaffold]

you can still get some really nice milkyway pictures from very light polluted areas, this is 16 mins untracked in a bortle 8 shot on a pixel 9 pro fold, i couldnt tell you exact settings because it was a year or 2 ago. i used deep sky camera

(this is the cygnus portion of the MW not the entire thing)

[spice gale]

H-how

[balmy ravine]

Wait what exactly is walking noise? Why does it stay consistent image to image?

[spice gale]

If you zoom into the image you can see loads of lines

Thats walking noise

Like multiple image stacked with the same noise pattern that moves along with the stars

Or whatever

And by dithering or slightly moving the position you wont have the same noise pattern = no walking noiee

[balmy ravine]

Yes but what exactly causes it? Isn't noise random?

[spice gale]

Idk

Thats what i know, barely studied it

But i know when doing dso you move your telescope just slightly, or touch it, so you dont have the same noise that when is stacked they line up

[grizzled lance]

My image is so cooked and noisy and wrecked

First time processing in siril and beginner

B5 11min sub 1600 iso 13s exposure
Honor 90

[solid socket]

Can you do a tutorial

[sick rain]

268x32

[spice gale]

That looks crazy

What bortle and what phone

[sick rain]

Motorola edge 20 lite
Bortle 4

[spice gale]

How much data is in this picture?

[sick rain]

What do you mean by that

[spice gale]

How many minutes or hours i guess

[spice gale]

Aint no way thats with a phone

[balmy ravine]

It is

Samsung galaxy s23 ultra

[spice gale]

How did you get your exposure so low, and still get a sharp image

[balmy ravine]

Manual exposure

Actually I used auto exposure to get even lower exposure

[sick rain]

Almost 2h20min

[spice gale]

The processing is so clean, you got the raw stack?

[balmy ravine]

Clouds rolled in right as I go out

This is what it was like before the clouds

[iron bear]

[lean magnet]

happened to me the other night, was just watching the clouds pass by in the guider view

they did eventually pass though

took like 20 minutes

[coral cedar]

milky way 1 hour and 30 minutes

i have a really bad stacking with the northen one

idk why, maybe im untracked i guess

[iron bear]

I was just testing the guiding yesterday after restoring thenotebook… I waited a bit, but I barely managed to do the polar alignment.
I only got to guide for a short time, but it looks like it’s guiding well again

[lean magnet]

i wonder if it's possible to use a phone to guide

[iron bear]

It’s possible… you just need one of those apps that use your phone’s camera as a webcam in windows. I’ve tested it before and it works

[sick rain]

I do but I don't really want to share it

[spice gale]

Oh ok

[spice gale]

Does anyone here know how to do planetary with an iphone?

I just cant get a clean video of a planet

[grizzled lance]

Yeah

[grizzled lance]

Lmao how can i help

I dont own a iPhone tho

[spice gale]

Well everytime i try and take a video of jupiter for example it turns into a white blurry ball

And i tried with different apps too

[grizzled lance]

Have you checked the actual telescope focus

Or is it the phone

[spice gale]

Yes telescope was focused greatly

[spice gale]

Might be the phone

[grizzled lance]

Cant you like tap on jupiter

So it can autofocus

[spice gale]

Nah it overexposes

[grizzled lance]

Bruhh

That's annoying

[spice gale]

You have a short video to show me how it looks for you?

Or a pic

Cuz i think we fot the same telescope size

[grizzled lance]

I have a honor tho

I do have a vid

Venus and Jupiter

[spice gale]

Jupiter

[grizzled lance]

Alr lemem find

[spice gale]

Thanks

[grizzled lance]

Discord made it so choppy bru

[spice gale]

Yea pretty much the same for me

[grizzled lance]

Just ovwe exposed?

[spice gale]

But even more overexposed and blurry

[grizzled lance]

Dang

Can you do it manually

I use raw for best

[spice gale]

When i used my old samsung it did vids 10 times better idk whats the issue

[spice gale]

On samsung i could

I think the iphone is not built for planetary

[grizzled lance]

Ngl once i used iphone for dso this thing does it automatically and give the most shittiest results

[spice gale]

Dsp it does great but planetary i gotta steal my sisters redmi

[spice gale]

Astroshader

[grizzled lance]

Doing ir manually is so kuch better

[spice gale]

Ikr

[grizzled lance]

Nah i was using my aunts iPhone for dso just does random stuff

It did take long exposure tho

Oh ywha

I tried on jupiter whenever i tap it it goes bright

[spice gale]

Yea woth moon its similar but better since its bigger

[grizzled lance]

Use the redmi make sure to take raw video and set focus to max

[spice gale]

I will

[grizzled lance]

If you need help i can try process for you

[spice gale]

Ill def reach out for you once i have clear sky

[grizzled lance]

Np brother

[coral cedar]

Seeing also matter, Jupiter in this month, it's not really high yet, it's kinda low, December is the sweet spot for capturing jupiter

Need like atleast 25 degree from horizon, in order to capture the Jupiter band and not having blurry one

[spice gale]

Visually it was fine

Easily could detect the bands

[coral cedar]

I seee

[bitter fox]

are there any android phone live stacking apps?

[grizzled lance]

Nah don't think so

Its easy to transfer and stack on dss tho

[bitter fox]

ew DSS

i just wanted some live stacking but if not thats fine

[grizzled lance]

I js use it stacks well gives good results

[coral cedar]

deep sky camera can do it

but you need pro version

[dusk crow]

Use ProMovie app is free, you can manuell change ISO And shutter and focus,

[spice gale]

Ill try it, thanks

[somber lantern]

Openlivestacker

It's pretty good

[dreamy pebble]

Shadow transit of Titan, taken at Washburn Observatory (15.6" f/16 refractor) with a 10 mm eyepiece

[dusk crow]

Something is spying,
Captured with a 7x50 bino 10min total exposure

[fallen estuary]

high bortle photo, does anyone know why its static-y? 30s exposure

[fallen estuary]

taken from default camera app on "pro" mode, anyone know a decently beginner friendly app for stacking?

[halcyon osprey]

dss

lot of tutorial on how to set it

[balmy ravine]

can you take raw? dont do "expert raw" if your on samsung, normal raw will be in advanced photo options

[dusk crow]

1GB storage for a 1min video😅😭

[stable sundial]

cause its 4k 60fps

[iron bear]

When I record on MotionCam, it’s 1.4 GB per second of video

[ivory thunder]

my phone camera broke over the summer (it fell out of my pocket while tying my laces and it landed on a corner) so here's the last astro related image I took (11 july)

[spice gale]

Its so cool

[grizzled lance]

Moon hasn't even rised up in the horizon for me 😞

[spice gale]

Damn

[cunning chasm]

I’ll pretend these are actually from the moon and call it a day

[dusk crow]

I just saw it, for the first time😁

[ivory thunder]

lucky
it's cloudy for me

[grizzled lance]

We twinning

[ivory thunder]

might go for second penumbral phase

[balmy ravine]

cropped jpeg + raw

[formal notch]

Taken thru phone only

[robust fog]

I'm unhappy I missed this blood moon unfortunately

But oh well

I did get the one in March

Shot on Pixel 8 Pro on March 2025 eclipse, 115mm lens, tripod only, no external assistance or optics

I tried the unbinned mode to get 230mm equivalent however quad bayer doesn't help in low light

Not as good IMO

[formal notch]

guys in deepskycamera whenever i put exposure abouve 3 secs, it outputs pure black images

my phone has max exposure of 10secs with built in pro mode

(samsung A36 5g)

[coral cedar]

seeing was very very terrible

[balmy ravine]

your image has sand dunes

on the left

[coral cedar]

yeah idk what artifact its that

ive spent like total amount to get this blood moon lmaoo

lmaooo tried mineral moon AT moon eclipse

gone very very wrong hahaha

[spice gale]

Yea uhh doesnt look too right

[coral cedar]

it is lmaooo

i choked hahaha

very very wrong

[balmy ravine]

you need to get rid of the colour gradient, maybe try siril background extraction with a high amount of smoothing?

[coral cedar]

idk ill try

[balmy ravine]

thumb reveal

[coral cedar]

i guess the artifact wont go

[west bison]

I got my first "good photos" of jupiter and the moon. Also I would like to ask if the moon is to sharp and if I should change it?

[sage wren]

That's a nice amount fo sharpeneds

[shadow idol]

oversharpened

[west bison]

Alright ty

[summer palm]

Might have to try again on a moonless night. had to stretch it a lil bit which brought out some unwanted noise in post but happy with it for now :b

[formal notch]

h

[dusk crow]

Why I can’t post pictures?

[echo sage]

bad thinghs

[atomic rampart]

h

[balmy ravine]

h

[atomic rampart]

h

[dreamy pebble]

h

[lean magnet]

h

[atomic rampart]

h

[plush palm]

h

[dusk crow]

h

[atomic rampart]

h

[potent gorge]

h

[pastel nexus]

h

[sand furnace]

h

[elder birch]

h

[median zinc]

H

[median zinc]

Woah that's a good picture of the moon

Btw is pixel 9 good for astrophotography?

[west bison]

Ty very much

[atomic rampart]

h

[lean magnet]

it's average like basically every other phone

[atomic rampart]

Xiaomi 12 is much better

[distant epoch]

h

[uncut cipher]

h

[ivory thunder]

h

[atomic rampart]

h

[fading bobcat]

h

[desert talon]

h

[lean magnet]

h

[robust fog]

F

[atomic rampart]

h

[sand furnace]

h

[nimble harness]

H

[rain silo]

h

[proven gull]

h

[short meadow]

h

[coral cedar]

h

[sand furnace]

h

[desert talon]

h

[balmy ravine]

Did i already share this? https://youtube.com/shorts/KcOJTXaT7xw

[spare sleet]

h

[thorny bobcat]

h

[ivory thunder]

h

[flint cargo]

Snapped by a seaside, was glad to spot Southern crown and Sagittarius in full for the first time

[spice gale]

Looks fire

[nimble harness]

https://tenor.com/view/kurt-angle-staring-meme-kurt-angle-staring-gigatnos-gif-1532715423575739716

[rain silo]

h

[sand furnace]

h

[bold coral]

what do i need to be to be able to send pics

[spice gale]

Be a protostar premium

[bold coral]

premium?

[atomic rampart]

h

[spice gale]

Now you can post pics

[bold coral]

wa wait omg thanks who did that?

you?

thanks dawgg

we have pleadies, andromeda and 2 milkyways

[spice gale]

No

[bold coral]

who then?

[spice gale]

A mod ig

[spice gale]

Pretty cool andromeda

[bold coral]

thanks to that mod ig

[spice gale]

Id work on focus on the milkyway pics

What bortle?

[bold coral]

yeah i didnt focus perfectly the first time so i did it again

[bold coral]

bortle 4

[spice gale]

What phone

Bc they look pretty bright for b4

[bold coral]

IQOO phone id say 5mm camera

[bold coral]

like they look more light poluted than b4?

[spice gale]

Yea

[bold coral]

i think ik why

[spice gale]

Maybe its the exposure/ iso fault

[bold coral]

20.54 mag/arcsec^2 is the SQM where my house is exactly and also the milkyway was in the direction of inner city which is a B5

also i think the astmoshephere was more hazy

also we have 50*12sec = 10 mins for both andromeda and both milkyways. 7 x 12 sec = 1.4 for pleadeis

[grizzled lance]

Not bad

[fading bobcat]

h

[balmy ravine]

The moon is going infront of venus tomorrow

[sand furnace]

Waiting for the day venus goes in front of the moon 😔 would make a great photo

[desert talon]

For me it’s gonna pass really close to it but not go in front of it

[ivory thunder]

it was cloudy (no surprise there)

[balmy ravine]

same, it was clear-ish sometimes but was hazy due to thin clouds

[ivory thunder]

for me it was complete thick cloud coverage

[desert talon]

It was completely clear

For me

[simple crow]

got this interesting effect where the stars somehow didnt trail when I picked up my phone prematurely

[spare sleet]

lol

[zealous edge]

we in the trenches now

[fading bobcat]

Revive phone astrophotography guys

[spare sleet]

a

[sick kernel]

I agree!

[dusk crow]

Bro I can’t upload images idk why , it’s disabled for me

[grizzled lance]

Yeah same

I tried aswell

Literally

[dusk crow]

I did captured many images but can’t share

[grizzled lance]

Same😔

Idk man

[spice gale]

You guys need to be protostar premium

Smt new in here

Kinda shet but

Ask the mods in general to get the role

[grizzled lance]

Yeah no chance

[zealous scaffold]

i need to return to phone ap to revive it

[fading bobcat]

I stopped looking at Phone AP when I got my Uranus C

These were the days...
(Literally 2 months ago)

[zealous scaffold]

my phone ap from like a year ago

[fading bobcat]

Orion one is particularly awesome

In comparison to mine

Mines too outta focus and muddy

[zealous scaffold]

lol ty, yeah its better than any orions ive been able to get lately, it was however processed by an absolute processing legend tho, so

[zealous edge]

still one of the best shots of Orion with an actual normal phone I've ever seen

"Normal" as in like, not captured with those crazy Xiaomi phones with the enormous camera sensors

[zealous scaffold]

yeah i was good at phone ap, maybe i should go back

a lot of people here used to consider me one of the best phone apers, obv lucas is way better than me but before lucas showed up i was lol

[dreamy pebble]

Phone astrophotography is so underrated. It's one thing to image with the Sheer Power™ of my rig, but it's another to be able to turn a phone camera into a viable astrophotographic tool

[zealous scaffold]

oh yeah, the one reason i wanted to get out of it is because low exposure times (but thats because i didnt have an eq mount at the time) and then you have transferring files over

plus then i dont have my phone if i need it

and then aligning the camera with the eyepiece was annoying, i couldnt find like any phone mount that worked really well for my scope

[bold coral]

8 min exposure of the orion and the flame nebula

VERY LITTLE bit of flame nebula

also this phone is like 15,000 inr or 126 pounds

so yeah its a kinda cheap phone

[lean magnet]

get horsehead

i did last year

[grizzled lance]

Bruu i need protostat plus man

Day 2 of asking for it

Yayy

Mw
11min in b4
1600iso 13s
Seeing was good

very noisy ik maybe couldve done bit more on calibration

[bold coral]

phone : IQOO ZS 5G
exposure : 12 x 81 = 16 min
ISO : 1250
B4 sky

guys idk about u ppl but i can see the pinkish hue of the horse head nebula im sooo blown away

THIS PHONE AINT EVEN EXPENSIVE ITS CHEAP

[dusk crow]

I can get some sunspots with the iPhone 17pro

[potent gorge]

Looks like the moon

[sand furnace]

Tbh full moon does feel like the sun when imaging

[dusk crow]

ISS with my 114/500 telescopes
If you need help also to capture ask me

[flint cargo]

would be cool to put that on a small startracker like move-shoot-move and try to image a bright DSO with a camera app like astroshader, i bet it wouldn't look half bad

[dusk crow]

I don’t have a startracker but I got some good images with AstroShader

This was my one of the best image with AstroShader app

[formal notch]

sending hi so that this forum dosent disappear from quick access

[dusk crow]

Sunset

[sick kernel]

Pls tell me if you know what the settings where i need a pic like that lol

[dusk crow]

1s sub Iso 32000 magnification 25x total 30min

[sick kernel]

Ok thx

[dusk crow]

On wich Bortle are you?

I am from B6

[sick kernel]

I live in 5 but i can acess 4

[dusk crow]

Good

[sick kernel]

Wow you got that from 6, nice!

[zealous edge]

this is kinda neat looking actually

I don't know what aesthetic this would align with but it's definitely something

[balmy ravine]

You probably covered the camera just before you picked it up

[desert talon]

That’s actually nice, I don’t think that my B9 would be able to get that lol

[sick kernel]

My first successful stack from 30 second vid pipp, autostakkert, registaxx and gimp (25% of best frames from the video)

I took the vid with my iphone 13mini in the normal camera app

[formal notch]

nice

[formal notch]

Andromeda galaxy test

3sec x 70 = 3.5mins
b9

[spice gale]

B9

[hollow mural]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/570687129118703637/968031306258714624/d.gif

[grizzled lance]

How do you dither with phone

Just move it a cm per 5min of taking subs?

[dusk crow]

My andromeda 3h from B9

[bold coral]

u killed it

W awesome

[formal notch]

it looks great but 3 hrs 😭

[dusk crow]

I captured this in 5 different nights, my field of view was very limited and I only could capture andromeda Rising from horizon

[formal notch]

I see

[balmy ravine]

Get rid of walking noise? Moving it won't really help, you need to rotate it slightly. Or just use calibration frames

[grizzled lance]

Ah okay thanks

I get crazy walking noise ill js rotate when doing wide field

[dusk crow]

iPhone 17 Pro just 30s regular Kamera App, Bortle 6

[flint cargo]

jic siril background extraction should be able to handle those circular color LP patterns

[dusk crow]

The Moon with the IPhone 17 Pro 4x Tele Kamera

[opaque tundra]

Slightly out of focus

[balmy ravine]

Prob has a lot of digital zoom, focus looks great

[zealous edge]

Yeah i think the softness of the image comes from the ai image correction that Apple's cameras use

makes the image quality a lot better, but when you zoom in really far like that it starts getting funky

[balmy ravine]

I think it's most likely due to image interpolation, like bicubic

[dusk crow]

Captured Comet lemon
7min , Bortel 6

[bold coral]

orion 16 min
phone : IQOO ZS 5G

[spice gale]

Thats so inpressive

[dusk crow]

Thanks, I had to wake up early for

[spice gale]

Yea ill wait just a bit more

[spice gale]

Also you used astroshader to capture that?

[dusk crow]

Yes, but did the most stack in Lynkeos

[spice gale]

Oh ok

[bronze jackal]

Been a while since i was active here why can't I put images anymore?

[atomic rampart]

Aperantly there was a spamming issue so now you need to get manually verified by a mod

[honest ferry]

Tried something. 6x5s on a Iphone 16 pro using the 120mm lens

will def add more to it

[distant epoch]

How can I get protostar premium

[spice gale]

Idk ask in general chat

[formal notch]

how long of exposures do you guys do?

i am doing 16 rn but i think i can push harder

[spice gale]

16s?

wild

i do 1s x 120 for a 2 min sub

take more of them

and stack separately

[dusk crow]

iPhone 17 Pro 4x Tele Kamera live View, Orion nebula, Plejades, Jupiter and andromeda galaxy
Bortel 6, Northern skys

[formal notch]

16 secs exposure is always better than 16 x 1sec exposures

[formal notch]

widefield

[spice gale]

Ohhh widefield

Between 10 and 30 sec rly

[formal notch]

I see

[formal notch]

C20 (North American Nebula)

Equipment-
Samsung A36
Cheap mobile stand
26.6mins exposure
b5

[balmy ravine]

Why can I only create a poll?

[spice gale]

Not a protostar premium

[hollow mural]

Is this astroshadr live view?

[dusk crow]

Yes

[frank jungle]

Hi yall

How do I send images here?

[balmy ravine]

send imgur link

[somber lantern]

You don't have to pay unless you're talking about booster

[balmy ravine]

How do you get protostar premium?

[spice gale]

Mods give it to you

[lean magnet]

Ask

[remote cypress]

Jupiter this morning with my 12” Dobsonian and iPhone 14 Pro seeing was very good as well as transparency best of 1% and 5% frames stacked

[dusk crow]

Jupiter with my 114/500 telescope, camera iPhone 17 Pro.

[nimble harness]

Good stuff

[spice gale]

Quick question, what app do you use to capture videos of jupiter?

[spice gale]

Same question for you, this looks like a proper astro cam image

[dusk crow]

ProMovie App

[remote cypress]

Base camera app 4K 60fps but I use the AF lock feature and turn down the shutter speed and iso with that

[spice gale]

The what

[formal notch]

I use openlivestacker (heres my result)
https://discord.com/channels/794642864218439681/1327123837925462066

[distant epoch]

Took this a few days ago, but didn't have protostar premium

[formal notch]

Niceeee

[spice gale]

Iphone?

[formal notch]

Android (samsung A04e)

[spice gale]

Oh i was asking for iphone

It was so much easier to do planetary with a samsung

[formal notch]

I see

[thorny bobcat]

Daytime Trapezium Cluster 32x0.1s 3.2 seconds. magnitude limit of 7 or 8

[bold coral]

Wdym day time?💀

[thorny bobcat]

the sun was up

[bold coral]

Did u take this pic during the day?

[thorny bobcat]

yes

[bold coral]

....

[bold coral]

How much

[thorny bobcat]

very near to sunrise but my telescope was casting shadows

[bold coral]

Wait were is that cluster located ?

Dude I'm so blown away

I swear

[spice gale]

In orion

[bold coral]

So the Orion's core?

Cool asf

[spice gale]

Yea

[bold coral]

16 min
B4
phone : iQOO Z7S 5G

there were dust spots on the camera tho

[formal notch]

Andromeda Galaxy and Caroline's Rose Cluster
Samsung A36 5g
100 x 16 sec
Stacked using Sequator (To combat rotation)
Processed using Astrosurface,gimp,siril
b5

[coral cedar]

Why can't I send files

[spice gale]

@silk ginkgo

[silk ginkgo]

[spice gale]

@coral cedar try now

[coral cedar]

Thank you very much

[bold coral]

ring nebula thru my 150mm reflector
single 2 sec exposure in full moon in b4

[zealous edge]

it's definitely there

[coral cedar]

this image took me 1 day to edit 💀

fyi: i took the cloud seperately, then i combined them together to make a composite image like this

[spice gale]

Sick one

[coral cedar]

Thank you very much

[spice gale]

With phone too

Nice seeing improvement

[sand furnace]

Was the cloud frame taken in the same night or during the day?

I occasionally see similar moon/cloud composites on Instagram with cumulonimbus which dont really form at night (??)

[coral cedar]

Hey thanks for asking, I shot the cloud during the day, cumolonimbus indeed form at night also but I kinda don't like shooting the cloud at night since it has noise later I have to deal with, so i shot the cloud during the day, darken it and blend them together

[sand furnace]

I see, thanks!

Ig sunlight also adds contrast to the clouds which can make them look more.. Cloudy

[coral cedar]

Correct, I can adjust the cloud itself as I want, cuz it has no noise haha

[balmy ravine]

Saturn is in a star cluster rn

[bold coral]

how do i get rid of this shit😭😭

why does auto stacker do this?

[balmy ravine]

It's getting confused between different parts of the moon, increase the AP size

Confused*

[balmy ravine]

Actually not, it's just near 4 bright stats

[iron bear]

Don’t let the Moon drift across the whole field of view... That’s caused by eyepiece distortion

[ivory thunder]

that'd be nice IF I COULD SEE IT

[bold coral]

got it

[zealous edge]

Bortle 4 goes kinda crazy ngl

30 seconds of integration, iPhone 12

[bold coral]

i live in B4

[misty verge]

i wonder what Bortle 1 and 2 would look like.

[dreamy pebble]

Not as huge of a gain tbh. Bortle 6 to 4 is a massive jump compared to Bortle 4 to 2.

[misty verge]

i wonder what bortale 1 and 2 would look like compared to bortle 6 and 7

[zealous edge]

Ah, well lucky you. I get to stay at a Bortle 4 for only 2 ~ 3 days every year, with the rest of the year consisting of Bortle 7.5 ~ 8.

[bold coral]

6.5 mins orion thru 150mm in B4

[green canyon]

Why can’t i post images here

[bold coral]

need protostar premuim

[green canyon]

Ah dang it

[frank jungle]

Where do I get protostar premium

[lean magnet]

Ask a mod

[zealous edge]

what phone? I feel like you should've gotten more detail than this for B4

especially through a 150mm OTA

[bold coral]

bro sky condition plays a major role if ur sky is hazy asf it will be like a B9 in B4

[bold coral]

IQOO Z7S 5G

or maybe im not good at processing

better attempt at processing

[hollow mural]

Since when

[bold coral]

idk a guy told me and i somehow got protostar premium and i cloud send pics

[shadow idol]

is there a wildfire around your scope wtf

that would never happen tbh

[bold coral]

💀

idk i just checked and i found out the camera wasnt getting the light of the full mirror surface

just a little part of it

[bold coral]

i live in india and the skys are poluted asf and also the nebula ws like 45deg above the horizon

i mean ppl blow cracekers every 10 mins in my city so

[bold coral]

i just found the reason

the phone camera is sh!t

[grizzled lance]

Yeah tbf i can relate

[balmy ravine]

True if you are just south of the himalayas, add like 2 to your bortle

[bold coral]

how the fck did u know?????????????????

like whaattttttttt bro how???

[glass gust]

Weird, hadn’t been a requirement before

[hollow mural]

Idk why they would do that like whats the point wasent this whole thread to let new amateurs post their progress??

[bold coral]

@balmy ravine tell me how did u dox me💀 ?

[bold coral]

orion nebula 12 mins thru a 150mm F5 newtonian in b4 using a 230$ phone's camera

[balmy ravine]

It's very hazy in north Pakistan

[bold coral]

i mean how did u know that i live just south of himalyas?

janab apko is baat ka ilm kaha se hua?

[misty verge]

I didnt prep myself for this Pic because I had to go to work, but here's moon a Venus about an hour ago

[balmy ravine]

I dont?

[dusk crow]

Venus

[ivory thunder]

daytime venus always goes hard

[dreamy pebble]

lemony boi

quick shot through a 10 inch Newt

[spice gale]

Bortle?

[dreamy pebble]

5

[dusk crow]

Very good weather here, since two weeks

[spare sleet]

e

[ivory thunder]

same, this has been on for like 3 weeks
looking forward to fri/sat nights to go see a6 more

[zealous edge]

Comet A6 Lemmon from a couple hours ago, framed by the eyepiece border and garnished with some foreground trees.

Shot through my Orion StarBlast with my iPhone 12, ~30x magnification, Bortle 7.5, somewhere around 8:00 PM.