Phone Astrophotography

[zealous edge]

manually corrected for star aberrations and image gradients

[frank jungle]

Hi guys, how do I message mods to give me protostar premium???

[sand furnace]

Just ping an online one or ask them directly if they're active in the chats

[frank jungle]

In which channel?

[sand furnace]

Any, makes sense to do it in #💬-general-chat or #🔭-astrophotography-chat

[frank jungle]

Last month's Lunar Eclipse

Through my Telescope

[frank jungle]

Orion Nebula through my Telescope

[honest ferry]

120mm optical Test on the iphone 16 pro / Lemmon / 29x5s

[zealous edge]

Did you use AstroShader to capture this?

[dusk crow]

Very Nice one, but do Just 3s exposure each one, and you get no Star trails

[honest ferry]

I will but clouds xd

[dusk crow]

Yeah same here

[dusk crow]

Can you maybe Tell me what was you ISO? and Bortel?

I have the 17 Pro but I couldn’t try out yet

[honest ferry]

iso 1300 and bortle 3/4

[dusk crow]

Oh man, you got a lot of noise then, Bortle 3/4 is dark sky’s and iso 1300 is not that high, did you also Progress the image? Or is this just Raw unedited?

[honest ferry]

i streteched it ofc on phone via lightroom

bc 30x5s is not enough data XD

[dusk crow]

Can you Send me the Raw data? maybe I can do something

[dusk crow]

Ok thank, I will try now Siril

[dusk crow]

Is it maybe possible you download the Image in Google Drive? I only can download as JPEG

[honest ferry]

heh just click on the download of the tif

[dusk crow]

I did but the Storage of the data is just 4,480kb

Sehe gerade du bist auch Deutsch 😅 lol

[honest ferry]

ah i already sent a edited file

[dusk crow]

Ok Good now

I made the background more black but I couldn’t didn’t do much

@honest ferry

[honest ferry]

ofc it didnt do much

no cali frames and not enough data

[dusk crow]

Yes maybe next time when Weather is Good you know😉

[frank jungle]

Nope

[balmy ravine]

What diameter and exposure time?

[balmy ravine]

Post the high resolution images, these are all low resolution

[frank jungle]

Actually the images are sharp, but when I share it in discord it's resolution decreases a bit

[zealous edge]

30 seconds total integration, the StarBlast has a 114mm mirror.

[dusk crow]

Last night I got unexpected a Clear sky for a few minutes.
iPhone 17 Pro
AstroShader App
10s 60x iso 750
Bortel 6

[dusk crow]

Somehow Venus is still visible in Daylight. Venus is not even Bright anymore and it’s close to the Sun.
iPhone 17 Pro 4x Kamera (100mm)

[dusk crow]

Venus with my 114/500 telescope in Daylight captured.
166 magnification
96% Venus

[ivory thunder]

wait what's the other 4% then 😭

[spice gale]

Shadow

[ivory thunder]

😔

the joke flopped

[spice gale]

[distant epoch]

Farts

[keen pewter]

Orion and Jupiter when i started out lol

And yes Orion through a blue visual filter

[misty verge]

What if I want to show the tail?

Some star cluster

[pastel nexus]

Not the tail, star trails. It happens cause the earth rotates, and the stars move in that 5s, so they appear to trail

Like this, star trails, no star trails

[misty verge]

oh ok

[dusk crow]

Plejades with my Telescope and Phone.

Telescope: 114/500
25mm eyepiece (25x)
Kamera: IPhone 17 Pro
Capturing in AstroShader
1s subs with ISO 10000
Total 1h exposure.
Bortel 6 (73% Moon)
Stack in Deepsky stacker
Processed in Siril

I am very happy about the Results. Anything is possible.
Clear sky’s everyone.

[zealous edge]

Damn, a full hour of integration and still barely any hint of the Pleiades' reflection nebulae?

[fading bobcat]

Think 1s subs gotta play a role

And 73% moon washes it out some

And he is ever so slightly trialed

[zealous edge]

true, yeah

[fading bobcat]

Honestly, still good for a phone image

I never got 1 hour of integration using a phone

[zealous edge]

does sub-exposure time matter that much? I figured the resulting image would be more reliant on the whole combined integration time, and less reliant on how much time each-sub exposure has

[fading bobcat]

Definetly has some impact.

Even if not the most, still some

Also doesnt pleiades reflection need more than 1 hour to be much more noticable?

[zealous edge]

Well, that's dependent on a wide variety of factors

bortle, moon percentage, aperture size, camera sensor size, etc

[fading bobcat]

100 1s ≠ 10 10s subs in terms of detail

[zealous edge]

I guess I just don't understand it

It's still 100 seconds total for each method

[fading bobcat]

Read noise, etc.

Lots of factors

[dreamy pebble]

Well here's the thing that's important to keep in mind about read noise: with shorter subs, you get more read noise, but that doesn't necessarily mean you get worse read noise overall, because you have more samples of its behavior (provided you're comparing identical integration times with differing sub lengths)

It makes up a greater proportion of the pixel ADU values, but if you have more subs you reduce the error in the pixel ADU value contribution from read noise

If you think of read noise as being some fixed uncertainty in ADU, then taking twice as long of an exposure gives you half the noise (its contribution is proportional to exposure length)

Once your exposures get long enough, shot noise dominates (Poisson distributed) because its contribution is proportional to the square root of the signal

In general you want to expose long enough for shot noise to be the dominant noise contribution to your signal, but I also balance that out with the advantages of taking more subs if I'm limited in time

(aside from less uncertainty in the read noise, that also includes being able to reject pixels or drizzle the result)

[frank jungle]

Moon through my Telescope

[ivory thunder]

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[thorny bobcat]

Trapezium Cluster 11x8s 1min 28sec ~150x magnification
Done with a pixel 8 pro on a celestron 130slt telescope with a 9mm eyepiece and a 2x Barlow lens.
also there was some really bad glare in the full image :|

[thorny bobcat]

Jupiter with this same setup and 244*1/60s 4.07 sec

[proud mirage]

Im thinking of buying a new eyepiece, as the stock celestron eyepiece are horrible near the edges. Does anyone have suggestions in the 50-80ish dollar range?

[dusk crow]

Every eyepiece has coma in the edges, you need a coma corrector.

It’s also deepenes on the F ratio, faster the telescope more Coma

But I can recommend Bresser 25mm eyepiece, it’s a simple, basic eyepiece, it works very well with my F4,4 telescope, only colose to edges has coma

[dreamy pebble]

Coma or astigmatism? Most eyepieces have astigmatism as their primary off-axis aberration

(Still, with a Newtonian you're gonna want a coma corrector just because that's inherent to the OTA design)

[dusk crow]

Idk this is what I mean with coma

[dreamy pebble]

Definitely astigmatism (it causes oval stars, coma makes them triangular).

[spice gale]

No eyepiece will fix that i promise you

You need a good tracking mount 😔

WE need a good tracking mount

[dreamy pebble]

Here's what pure coma looks like

[dusk crow]

Ok interesting I didn’t knew about this

[dreamy pebble]

If you're using a coma corrector it's definitely working

Usually refractors (even achromats) are aplanatic so you won't have any coma, just astigmatism

[dusk crow]

Ok thank for explaining this

[proud mirage]

I have an f10 refractor, so does that mean that my main issue is astigmatism, not coma?

[grizzled lance]

I think it's with every phone

Like the eyepiece its self and the rounded glass with the phone lens

You can probably digital zoom slightly but that woukd lower reso

Edge distortion im guessing

[dreamy pebble]

It's probably mostly the eyepiece's astigmatism at that point

[dusk crow]

Jupiter and its 3 moons
iPhone 17 Pro
4x Kamera (100mm)

[desert talon]

That’s really cool! I tried it out last night and I think I got Ganymede with my 16 pro max

[scenic glen]

Crazy work

[scenic glen]

Have you tried to get the iss yet ?idk if it’s possible to get any detail tho

[dusk crow]

The Magnification and the Resoluten is to low, the best way is a Sun Transit and its has to be high in the sky, you have to be very Lucky and you might see a H Shape on the ISS

[wind spoke]

through thicc clouds

[scenic glen]

You could see an moon transit I belive

[fleet bramble]

is there an app or website to see when itll cross from your location?

[sand furnace]

https://transit-finder.com/

[dusk crow]

🕊️

[sick kernel]

i once got a airplane to pass infront of the moon

nice btw

[ivory thunder]

jupiter, 2023 and 2024

2025 as well for good measure

[wind spoke]

moon visually was so good tho

it looked like a stacked image

[grizzled lance]

Bruhh discord compression hits hard

[grizzled lance]

Yehah

[wind spoke]

my 3.5mm ff eyepeice has no ca whatsoever so its amazing

[grizzled lance]

3.5??

[wind spoke]

yea

its sharp asf

[grizzled lance]

Tiny exit pupil

So tiny

[wind spoke]

its sadly too dim for double stars when the moon is out

[grizzled lance]

Tbf you aligned it quite well i can tell cuz sharp edges

[wind spoke]

awfully

heres better, i have no ep holder

i find it funny that my best image through an eyepeice was through thicc cloud

[grizzled lance]

No holder aswell?

Did you use js hands

[wind spoke]

but visually it cant compete with clear skies

[wind spoke]

yea

[grizzled lance]

Yeah visually is way more sharo

[wind spoke]

my hands shake like crazy

[grizzled lance]

Its so much better

[wind spoke]

sharpest is stacking but im busy

my laptop died but i got just over an hour on c5

[grizzled lance]

Bruh heavy compression

[wind spoke]

yoo i got a similar image

this was obv with an astrocam

[grizzled lance]

That looks cleann

Sharpest image i coulf find of moon by phone

Dawg still compression 🙏🏼

[formal notch]

Has anyone tried this? I stubled upon it while trying to search for raw video

https://www.samsung.com/levant/support/mobile-devices/professional-photography-with-galaxy-expert-raw-app/

[grizzled lance]

Js don't use the astrophotography version

Best is js raw video and picture

Don't use anything else its crao

[formal notch]

I see

[scenic glen]

How far away was it in this clip

[dusk crow]

Idk, i was at 166x maybe it was a small bird or it was far away, because its appears small in size

[scenic glen]

Nein nein

No no

In km

But I would like to know the exact number

[dusk crow]

You think the bird was 1000km away?

Not possible

[scenic glen]

Wait

That was a bird ?

[dusk crow]

Ja brd

[scenic glen]

I thought you send a clip of the iss my Bad

Ja wir hatten ja grad darüber geschrieben deswegen dachte ich dass

😔

Bro das sieht komplett aus wie die iss deswegen dachte ich dass 💀 . Aber ist fr nur nh Vogel

[dusk crow]

Ja leider war’s nur ein Vogel, iss transit ist selten weil ich kann nur von zu Hause aus fotografieren

[scenic glen]

Ja Same

[dusk crow]

A small Timelapse from the German Autobahn

[ivory thunder]

idk

[dusk crow]

I Did the same in Daylight but my Jupiter is very faintly visible

[ivory thunder]

mine was like 20 min before sunrise

[balmy ravine]

Lot of planes

Wait they might be satellites

[dusk crow]

The most of them are Starlink satellites, you can see that because their orbits are the same

[balmy ravine]

Jupiter

[bold coral]

22 mins on dumbell nebula thru a 150mm F5 newtonian using a $160 phone's camera in a sky condition equal to if not worse than B9

[atomic rampart]

Forget the time-lapse i want to know how fast you are driving

[dusk crow]

Not that fast, 140kmph or 86miles, usually when the road are empty we drive +180kmph

[atomic rampart]

Thats pretty fast

[dusk crow]

I drove 186 kmh in driving school

[solid socket]

wut

[frank jungle]

Orion Nebula through Powerseeker 114EQ

[dusk crow]

I just try’d something😅
I think is offset

[bold coral]

thats why im scared of deepsky mosaics

[solid socket]

Do not be scared. Just dont do "too" widefield and with bortle 6

[dusk crow]

Andromeda 24mm
30min in B6
iPhone 17 Pro

[ivory thunder]

3% waning crescent

[ivory thunder]

venus

[ivory thunder]

oopsie meantv6%

[arctic zodiac]

German autobahn prob

[solid socket]

Yeah, but that 186 is dumb no matter in which country. I live in Germany and that speed is dumb. Believe me

[arctic zodiac]

Oh yea i know and agree but people still do it a lot

[honest ferry]

That why we drive 200+

186 is dumb bc it ain’t fast enough

[heady wing]

That is a really interesting noise pattern

[dusk crow]

Yes like star trails but noise,
I stack the images with Siril idk why this happens

[heady wing]

Almost looks like its grains forming a circle off the left side of the frame

[dreamy pebble]

This looks like the artifact that happens with Sony and Nikon cameras, which filter the raw data under certain circumstances. Your phone might be doing that too

[dusk crow]

Yes my image is not completely Raw, on iPhone a tru raw is just 1s exposure but I did 20s exposure so I digitaly make the Shutter longer

[dusk crow]

Last night I did capture 4 Planets

114/500 newton
6mm eyepiece and 2x Barlow (166x)

Camera IPhone 17 Pro

[solid socket]

Ah. Fair enough

[fleet bramble]

Orion
S22 Ultra
No scope

[spice gale]

No scope?

[fleet bramble]

[dusk crow]

Is that 3x Tele or 10x Tele camera?

[fleet bramble]

10x

[atomic rampart]

Fuel consumption must be crazy

[honest ferry]

Nah

[atomic rampart]

Dude 99% of the energy from the engine is just being used to overcome air resistance

Even at 100km/h its 70% and its a logarithmic increase

[honest ferry]

At 200 I Can Drive 700 ish km with my octavia

[atomic rampart]

Damn

[ivory thunder]

ju🅱️eter and callisto
s20 ultra, ~30x zoom, no scope

[fleet bramble]

Oh damn I wanna try that

[dusk crow]

I also could see the mons of Jupiter with the 4x tele of the iPhone 17 Pro, but I didn’t Zoom digital, just crop after. Also you might need a long exposure and stacking, I did 0,6s 30x

[ivory thunder]

i did 1/8 s iso 1600

but my phone camera alone is pretty bad at focusing on stars and planets and whatnot so yea

[dusk crow]

Yeah do Manuel focus, I couldn’t see all the moons with auto focus

[keen pewter]

Hints of milkyway?

[dreamy pebble]

and the Double Cluster and Andromeda Galaxy

[keen pewter]

imma plate solve this real quick.

[keen pewter]

Plate solved failed shhhh 😭

[grizzled lance]

Yes

Barely tho looks like b6

[ivory thunder]

more xalisto and jubeter

[arctic zodiac]

Depends

When we tested the top speed of our van it was

We went about 185kmh

[atomic rampart]

Ah

[keen pewter]

Yeah it's in our national park but it's a b6 B5 area 🙁

[grizzled lance]

It still has potential with basic stacking and processing

[keen pewter]

Yeah ur right. Might do that next time. This was just to test my new phone for fun. A single 30 second exposure.

[ivory thunder]

even more calisto
it's not ganymede, even though ganymede is brighter it wouldn't get as far away from Jupiter as callisto would

[bold coral]

my best jupiter thru my 150mm

[ivory thunder]

I see those moons

[ivory thunder]

jewele handle I think.and moon

[spice gale]

Looks so clean

[slow depot]

Aight so I have an iPhone 14. Should I buy the nomad move shoot move Star tracker?

[clear frost]

No idea what that is

[bold coral]

jupiter 30 min rotation thru a phone and 150mm camera

i dont have an i phone of some camera like that with a lot of zoom

the phone is like 200$

and my best jupiter yet

u can see so much surface detail

[coral cedar]

very cool

[frank jungle]

Leo triplet through my Telescope

[ivory thunder]

merceyr and mpon

[clear frost]

Do this without moon light will be much better

[spice gale]

Thats actually so good

Still didnt manage to do planetary with my iphone

[proud ridge]

umm @mods ? Anyone.... ls give me rights to send pics ....

[zealous scaffold]

u have image perms now

[elder birch]

Don’t have the star tracker - but their phone mount is by far the best I have. The build quality is great

[proud ridge]

t😊

thanks

all these are taken with my cheap 200$ phone and a small 60mm spotting scope ... similar to tye svbony 60 mm one but a good knockoff.. 50$.. from china... though it has less crimatic abberation than my celestron 60 az .... lol

[spice gale]

That last moon looks great

[proud ridge]

today

[proud ridge]

wb this

[spice gale]

Second looks nice, a bit tok sharp maybe but its nice

[lean magnet]

wtf is a galaxy 3/4 5g pro

did they cut 25% of your phone off

[prisma raft]

it seems very very sharp, and a bit oversaturated perhaps?

[proud ridge]

uhhh idk how to process these ... sooo this is just stacked ...

@prisma raft @spice gale uhhh pls try to like edit it .. im not good at that loll

[proud ridge]

uhhh kinda.... like its a custom watermark

Not realy much like i stacked 10 images ..

[prisma raft]

i cant really edit a jpeg

do you have a raw

or does your phone not take in raw

[rain silo]

don’t worry i edited it beautifully

[proud ridge]

uhhh i don't think a 200 $ PHONE CAN take raw 🥲

i tried many ways

[prisma raft]

you didnt root your phone did you

because i wouldn't reccomend

[proud ridge]

uhhhhhh i wont dare to

Igotanolderphoneicanrootbutwhats

uhhh the hel

lol

@prisma raft do you have any tips to capture the moon because its sharp af in my eyepiece but my phone dosent capture depth ...

[prisma raft]

what phone do you have

[proud ridge]

a m 34 just removed the /

loll

Samsung Galaxy M34 5G https://share.google/0BYmv2ZzfPtcP17os

[prisma raft]

get Open Camera

you can play around with the focus

[proud ridge]

i got 8 gb one but dosent dk shit

[prisma raft]

so you can achieve a decent photo

[proud ridge]

well its got a very good camera app ... and i use deep sky stacker op cam is tacky ....

[prisma raft]

you have a 50mp primary camera

do you at all utilise that quality

your edited photo btw

[proud ridge]

I acn use all manual settings too...

[proud ridge]

wayyyy better

thanks

[prisma raft]

dont oversharpen

[proud ridge]

uhhh iys a 12 mp one .... its a marketing gimmik ... yk just combines tto take 50 mp

[prisma raft]

avoid overusing the clarity setting

[prisma raft]

you can change it to 50mp

my phone is an a55, takes in 12mp for its primary but also to 50mp

[proud ridge]

ik that

[prisma raft]

just disables zoom

[proud ridge]

I went deep into how it takes pictures and found out it really doesn't have a 50 mp camera... it combines pixels

[prisma raft]

???

ok then

[proud ridge]

UUhh idk .... i wish i could capture with my eyes...

umm what exposure time should i use for the moon though

i think 1/250 is too slow

[prisma raft]

i think 1/15

or 1/50

[spice gale]

Now this looks great

[proud ridge]

ok will try

thnx

[proud ridge]

heyy.... i edited it to my liking... didn't touch sharpening and detail tab ... and no saturation ... does this look nicer ...

@prisma raft 🥹

[prisma raft]

what even happened

what were your settings

[proud ridge]

umm 1/250, manual focus, iso 50 , no digital zoom

[prisma raft]

what was the raw image

[proud ridge]

uhh the same one u edited ... i jaust re staked it

on autostakkert

[prisma raft]

why are we stacking edited photos 😭

[proud ridge]

nooo

i restacked the ov

og*

loll

[prisma raft]

what did you edit it on

and what did you change

[proud ridge]

one of the og images

uhh snapseed i ddid have fun on the graphs 📊

and exposure...highlights and all but no sharpness or detail..

bcuz i dk why im addicted to oversharping

[prisma raft]

yeah avoid oversharpening

i would advise you look at moon editing videos

to properly learn

[proud ridge]

hmmm no one does it on smartphone.... all on photoshop... my shit dosent run autostakert properly.. it will crash with ps

[prisma raft]

doesnt matter with what gear your using

close autostakkert and then launch ps?

[wind spoke]

or dont use ps and use gimp instead

[prisma raft]

whats the point of owning photoshop then

[wind spoke]

i thought they didnt own it ?

bc they never stated they did

[somber lantern]

Lightroom on mobile is probably the best editing app for phones

[proud ridge]

ik... i use that too ,... loll cracked version 🤣

uhhh .. the un cropped is the 50 mp img ... i think ur idea worked bro .(caden).. and yeah i did watch some lr tutorials but ... they overshrpend too ... soo i just skiped the sharpening step ...

wth is this discord compression 😭.

it looks soo bad on discord

@prisma raft sorrsorry for tagging u but idk anyone else here 😅

[prisma raft]

looks significantly better

[bold coral]

i dont even have an i phone

[spice gale]

Oh for some reason i thought you do

What phone is that tho

[bold coral]

IQOO Z10X

costed 200$

[scenic glen]

Way to overedited imo

[bold coral]

i edited ur pic how does it look

everyone has anybody tried INA thru a phone?

[untold ingot]

henlo

[somber lantern]

I have

I don't think I got it

[iron bear]

Short timelapse from last night.
Xiaomi 12 — 350×15s, ISO 100
Campos do Jordão, Brazil

[iron bear]

subs

[bold coral]

i too and didnt sucseed

[bold coral]

.

[wind spoke]

doin the boingy sproingy

[plush palm]

Google pixel 9a

[lean magnet]

[dry falcon]

The morning moon straight out of my IPhone 17 Pro

[wind spoke]

curcle!

[echo sage]

iPhone 15 pro

[untold ingot]

pog

[untold ingot]

what bortle

[dreamy pebble]

This is beautiful

[echo sage]

4

[ancient rampart]

Pleiades and orion i could shee through some old binoculars i found. The recording quality is horrible, im thinking of getting a phone adapter

[zealous edge]

a phone adaptor definitely tends to help, in phone based AstroPhotography. Yes.

[bold coral]

6" and didnt record raw also no zoom lense

[scenic glen]

I would Like to Post some Pic’s on here but I cant . Does any Body know why

[dusk crow]

#🤓-ask-a-nerd ask someon there, you need to be activetet from a mod.

[scenic glen]

Okay I will , ty🙏

[zealous scaffold]

i dm'd one of the mods, i dont know when they'll be available though so you might have to wait a lil

[scenic glen]

Jupiter & his moons taken by my phone + binoculars. Idk why it’s blue

[wind spoke]

out of focus :(

[scenic glen]

Yea , took this back in Like march or smth Like that ,

[pastel nexus]

I hate to disappoint you but that's the light coming from Jupiter, but out of focus, so the details aren't real details on Jupiter, and the spot next to it is probably a dead Pixel. I had a similar experience when I first took a picture of Jupiter

It should look something like this, even with low resolution

[scenic glen]

I think not tbh , bc the dead pixel perfectly lines up with the stipes

But it is definitely out of focus & not good

[pastel nexus]

If it were, the moon would be out of focus too, and there should be four around it since you took this with binoculars

[scenic glen]

lett me check the date on stellarium nh stuff

They couldve been behind him

3 out of 4

I was laying upside down when I took the pic*

[pastel nexus]

Yea they all would've been visible if one was visible

[scenic glen]

Yea , my explanation is that I took this picture trough a window inside my house and the stripes are real but the moon isn’t. The moon is a reflection of smth inside my house

Holy typos

[coral cedar]

jupiter with phone

it could be better

ive only captured about 30 second

[pastel nexus]

Ok, next time you try to get Jupiter, adjust the focus slider on your binoculars until Jupiter is as small as you can make it. Download an app that let's you take raw videos, attach your phone to the binoculars, and take the video, without touching the binoculars.
Then, put the video in a software like pipp, select planet mode, then make sure it's exporting as raw or whatever pipes equivalent, then put it into something like autostakkert, select the video from pipp, analyze it with planetary details not surface details, then move the slider over atleast 10% to the right, then select the smallest boxes and place them on Jupiter. Make sure when exporting that it's on tif, then use something like astrosurface to sharpen it, if it's not too noisy

That sounds kinda complicated, but it'll make sense if you watch a tutorial on those apps. Though they're only available on pc I believe

[pastel nexus]

Nice

[coral cedar]

thanks!

[pastel nexus]

You've got the moons too

[coral cedar]

yeppp

since ive upgraded my telescope the result were sooo much better

[pastel nexus]

Yea!

[coral cedar]

i captured this also with 80mm refrac

massive different i would say xD

[pastel nexus]

Yea

[coral cedar]

same eyepiece same phone same setup haha

[pastel nexus]

What's the one you have now?

What scope is it

[coral cedar]

its diy hadley telescope

it has 4.5 inch diameter

[pastel nexus]

This was the best I ever got with my 4.5". But tbf, I was using a dslr with horrible recording resolution

[coral cedar]

Hey it's great for the image

[pastel nexus]

It was about 12um vs the standard 2.9um on most planetary cameras💀

[scenic glen]

Ty for the tips but I already have a telescope rn with a phone mount ect

[pastel nexus]

It still works for a telescope. BTW make sure you're using the eyepieces with the phone, or else it'll be out of focus. I made that mistake once💀

[coral cedar]

i mean ive captured the jupiter also with my dslr

i was using 80mm refract 4.3 um haha

[coral cedar]

12um is biggggg

really big

[pastel nexus]

Yea, it couldn't record at max resolution unfortunately. Barrows came in clutch for me

Otherwise it would've been 4.3 also

[coral cedar]

i seee..

it looks great thoo

[pastel nexus]

Ty, so does yours

[coral cedar]

thanks!

[wind spoke]

the stripes are the least real part.

i can tell an out of focus fake striped jupiter image when i see one.

[ivory thunder]

why does your jubeter have a deformity 🙁

[scenic glen]

Thats his wabi sabi

[proud ridge]

my .... too much edited and idk whtf i was doing on registax

from a 60 az

and horrible atmosphere too

[untold ingot]

is that... jupiter?

[clear frost]

iPhone 12

[dusk crow]

iPhone 17 Pro
Tele Camera

No AI used

[untold ingot]

is that jupiter or what

i didnt got clear answer yet

[untold ingot]

choco vannila candy ahh pic

[clear frost]

iPhone 12

[dusk crow]

I didn’t use a telescope

[clear frost]

That’s cool

I’m just teasing you anyways

I took that with a 2 foot wide telescope

[coral cedar]

Insane brother

[scenic glen]

Looks so nice 🙏

[coral cedar]

jupiter with phone

[spice gale]

Thats honestly so clean

[fading bobcat]

Jupiter with a phone and 130mm 600fl newt

Ignore the Facebook compression, I dont have the original photo

[proud ridge]

yupp

uhhh idk wth to do i cant manage to get any structure of the orion even with stacks this is 500 1 sec atacked in luminanace and rgb ....

with a 60mm it should be possible

Nothing works

why can't i see any cromatic abberation with my eyes but olny my phone when i try to capture it ...? Anyone got ideas

tried native camera app, open cam , seepsky cam and open live stacker

[untold ingot]

may i share the pic with friends

i will credit you if you want

[proud ridge]

oh totally...

i didn't think it has even lil bit of detail...

[untold ingot]

no i wanna use it as a meme

[proud ridge]

i wanna know how did he get that

[proud ridge]

oh loll

yup

uhhh ik this is a astrophotography channel but i have seen the m44 behive cluster the orion , even managed to make out a faint uranus .... but for that damn last 3 days cant manage to make out Andromeda... like bruh , i can see both miarch and mu Andromedea but not the dammm galaxy

🥲

@untold ingot

any idea

how to look for it

[untold ingot]

?

[proud ridge]

uhhh the whole passage aboabove

how tth do i find Andromeda....

[untold ingot]

my best attempt at andromeda btw

tbh it was bortle 9

[proud ridge]

uhh im at bt 5

... still cant make it out

[untold ingot]

better luck I guess

[proud ridge]

wait iys center isnt a satr like thing... the core too is a blurry dot ?

[untold ingot]

yea

it feels like nebula

on phone

[untold ingot]

kinda reasonable for old astronomers to assume it was andromeda nebula

[proud ridge]

ohhh mann..

[untold ingot]

@proud ridge my pics btw

some pics are out of focus

[proud ridge]

i may have been looking for wrong stuff

[proud ridge]

thanks for the reference...

[untold ingot]

also can be taken with moon in frame

moons too bright it looks bigger

but trust me, andromeda looks bigger

from earth

youll probably only be able to take core pics

if you stack, maybe outer parts?

[proud ridge]

i thithink its that lil speck ...

[untold ingot]

the dust clouds inside is pretty hard imo

yup

thats the one yra

[proud ridge]

BBit disappointing 😑

lol

[untold ingot]

what did you expect from a object outside the milky way with a phone

Android phone isnt required to take andromeda

but apple phones probably is required to take apple pics

but idk if apple phones can take andromeda as well

[proud ridge]

😅 uhhh saw damon scotscots vid he took a kind of ok img with a Samsung Galaxy

[untold ingot]

but, tracking mount and stacking image works

[proud ridge]

hmmm

true

[untold ingot]

maybe take longer exposure
use mount so it doesn't blur

and stack

but at that point just invest in dslr I guess

[proud ridge]

yk if i had money fofor a mount i would go for a 8"dob

[untold ingot]

also when stacking, post processing skills are important

good luck on that

[proud ridge]

bcuz cheapest mount costs more than one gso

[proud ridge]

i lack that ...

[untold ingot]

me too

[proud ridge]

thanks

[untold ingot]

[coral cedar]

Thankss

[zealous edge]

The human eye has an extremely good ability to correct for "misaligned light", in that any bits of unfocused light that enter your eye in tandem with normal focused light will be corrected by the brain as the eye perceives it.

Think of the human eye as an extremely sharp refractor with tons of lenses, correcting each wavelength of visible light with such precision. Keep in mind the fact that predator animals like cats, owls, raptors, and many prehistoric animals all had eyes that FAR exceed the performance of human vision, in terms of sharpness and actual perceived detail in dim or far away objects. Owls, cats, and many other animals that rely on extremely powerful vision would likely see a LOT more through a huge 20" Newtonian in dark skies than we possibly could.

Meanwhile, your phone camera is just a small camera with (comparably) poor optics, really only designed for taking photos of things in bright to dim conditions, and not the dark conditions with bright pinpoints that astrophotography always presents.

The camera may not align red green and blue wavelengths perfectly; no matter how good your telescope optics are, or how fantastically sharp and flat-field your eyepiece may be, the camera's optics always have the final say in how good the visual quality will be, and if the optical quality on the camera is Not Great™️, then the perfectly aligned light wavelengths coming through the telescope will get all messed up inside the camera, creating chromatic aberration.

[proud ridge]

hmmm.... wish i could take pics with my eyes ....

like .... if we could get eye resolution and brain power with camera exposure.....

its worksss...

[zealous edge]

Every photographer's dream, tbh

[clear frost]

2 foot wide scope

[spice gale]

Anyone who has an iphone and does planetary?

[scenic glen]

Can you show the difference from before and after using the diy one

[dusk crow]

I do
I am using IPhone 17 pro

[zealous edge]

I tried doing planetary with my iPhone 12 and StarBlast dob

didn't really work that good

though I do want to try again if I get one of those planetary webcam imagers

[clear frost]

Like a dedicated astrocam

[zealous edge]

yeah, just the little ones that Ed Ting likes using

something little like one of these QHY minis or the red ones that ZWO distributes, that type of camera

[proud ridge]

will try next time moon comes bcuz its a wide fov for other

[proud ridge]

but so far i have tried it at night at a distant ship from coast ... no false color in high contrast too

[pastel nexus]

Player one has the Neptune-C 2 on sale

Unless it needs to be a lipstick style, that's probably the best you'll get for the price atm

[zealous edge]

I don't really care about how it looks, just how it performs and affordability tbh

[pastel nexus]

What's your budget?

[zealous edge]

Lol

my budget is "am I willing to spend half of my money on this piece of astronomy equipment"

I don't exactly have income

[pastel nexus]

If you wanna go really cheap, a literal Webcam might work

But, by that price I'd just stick to your phone

[zealous edge]

I fear if I go too cheap then the actual quality won't be worth the price

kinda what tends to happen with astronomy gear I guess

[lean magnet]

even the cheapest planetary cams are fine

[zealous edge]

noted

[coral cedar]

I own sv305 pro right now, it costs me like about 190+ dollars in my country

It performs really well

This is the result with my 4.5 inch diy hadley telescope

This image I haven't barlow up yet, which is undersampled, Jupiter in my case, is quite bright, I can push the exposure down to 3-4 ms and gain about 200-250 with good/ok seeing without barlow

It has native 900mm focal length

Quite suprise with the performance, I would say it's the most 'affordable' planetary cam in my country, since my country sell it, if I go like player one camera, taxes become crazy haha

[wind spoke]

jup do the shimmy

[bold coral]

using phone and 6" and raw for the first time

[coral cedar]

yeahhh haha

[coral cedar]

insanely good

[keen pewter]

@analog seal

[analog seal]

hmm

not bad

[scenic glen]

iPhone 17 pro 2x Zoom
~Orion area
unedited

30sek exposure

Tried it again with 8x zoom

Decend ig but it was quite cloudy

[untold ingot]

huh

[scenic glen]

?

[untold ingot]

[scenic glen]

sec*

[untold ingot]

yea ik what u meant

i was being silly

[scenic glen]

Second = Sekunde in German , that’s why

[untold ingot]

ohh?

[scenic glen]

✌️✌️✌️✌️

[untold ingot]

interesting

[scenic glen]

Yea

[untold ingot]

i know a word in german

the eggshellpredeterminedfracturingdevice

[scenic glen]

What word

[scenic glen]

Idk that one

[untold ingot]

Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher

[scenic glen]

😯

[untold ingot]

imo i just eat them with the shell

extra crunch

texture is bit bad

but extra calcium

[zealous edge]

you actually got a tiny hint of the flame nebula near Alnitak

[keen pewter]

Nice lamp!

[scenic glen]

lamp?

[keen pewter]

lol on ur first picture

[scenic glen]

Ohh , Yea Thats my neighbors lamp

[keen pewter]

Nicely exposed 😄

[bronze jackal]

bit of a re-edit of an old cygnus image, can't really remember any of the details about settings or integration time

[ivory thunder]

there are normal sized chocolate bars that cost more than 2 41 gbp now 😭

[dusk crow]

Mercury in the morning
iPhone 4x Tele

[remote cypress]

Been trying to see Mercury in the mornings/evenings since March 23rd of 2024 when we had that big western elongation.

Have not been able to its so hard

[bold coral]

saturn and its moons using a phone (no barlow) and a 6" recorded in raw

[proud ridge]

uhhh this was a 5 minute exposure....wth

soo dark

[scenic glen]

Maybe it was cloudy

[zealous edge]

Was there any processing done to this

this just looks like clipping

[dry falcon]

iPhone 17 Pro - Orion

[ivory thunder]

horribly butchered saturn/Pisces ring thingy photo
this was taken through a window with a lamppost out of frame so yea

afaik no artifacts turned into stars in the butchering

i tried how I butchered that img with an older one and I think it's ok?? idk months of cloudy weather have eviscerated my astro skills

[grizzled lance]

Mars from a year ago

😭

[grizzled lance]

Is this through Google lens?

[dusk crow]

The Sun is back here again,
iPhone 17 pro + sunfilter

Sadly rightnow sun only haves small sunspots

[dusk crow]

Orion with IPhone 17 Pro 4x Tele Camera, just 12 min data I will do later even more

[zealous edge]

got a hint of the flame nebula there too

[dusk crow]

Yes, I will try next time +1h exposure and I will stack all images by my self not with AstroShader stacks, it have some weird noise trails

[pastel nexus]

Make sure to dither so you can get rid of those streaks

Longer individual exposure time also helps

[keen pewter]

Quick snap of Jupiter with the phone

[keen pewter]

Those are caused due to no dithering.

[dusk crow]

I know I will that’s because AstroShader doesn’t dithering.
I will save every image nextime and do my stacking and dithering by my self

[grizzled lance]

Bruhh it'll look sick post processing

[scenic glen]

Clean

[proud ridge]

uhhh basic contrast in snapseed

[coral cedar]

got a decent jupiter this night through my 80mm refractor and with a phone

[grizzled lance]

Already looking somewhat better than my 150mm🙏

[coral cedar]

Haha thanks brother, I'm pretty sure your 150mm will outperform my 80, I captured it with a really good seeing, so I think your one is much better when u have a really good seeing

[spice gale]

Anyone knows how i can fix my adaptor?

It keeps bending and it gives vignette and bad star shapes on dso and it blurs planets

I got the nex yz adaptor, and my iphone 15 pro is not THAT heavy

[coral cedar]

so i tried to restack and reprocess my old milky way pics, 7 september 2025, im having an issue where the siril wont stack properly and make my stars elongated and sorta distorted , so i use sequator to use the distortion removal, it works pretty good not gonna lie.

Singkawang, Indonesia

389x15s, Untracked, Infinix note 50 Pro, 35 percent moon, bortle 4

stacked at sequator, processing at siril, post at photoshop

some problem i had is the halo of the moon, very noticeable from the top right side, some stacks artifact, and some stars are kinda elongated because of the imperfection stacking

but for the result i cannot complain

[scenic glen]

That looks insane

[coral cedar]

Thanks!

[proud mirage]

I had a similar issue, and it was because the phone was heavy enough that it wasnt completely parallel to the eyepiece, like it was slightly angled. I added 1 or 2 rubber bands that go from the top of the clamp to the bottom of the flat part where the phone rests and it seemed to fix it, idk if that makes sense

When I get image perms I can send a pic

I also know some people have placed washers where the z axis adjustment screws are, tho I havent tried that

I also did add some tape to the actual phone holder base at the bottom so that the bottom of the phone was slightly tilted up

[spice gale]

I tried that, should add more tho lmao

[spice gale]

Yea thats where the mount wobbles the most

[proud mirage]

This is what I have done, it pretty much solved the issue completely for me

[spice gale]

I see

Thanks

[proud mirage]

Orion with my diy motorized powerseeker 70 eq, about an hour of integration, bortle 7. Plate solve was being weird so I couldn't get the best polar alignment and had to stick with 4s subs unfortunately, but I think I figured out the issue. Hoping to get at least 60s next time with 3 point polar alignment in NINA.

[spice gale]

Wowww thats not bad at all

[arctic zodiac]

This is insane wtf

[proud mirage]

Thanks lol, this has been a long journey practically building up my mount from scratch, and its nice to finally see some progress

[coral cedar]

Very good

I couldn't pull out something like that even I've motorized my eq mount on powerseeker 80eq

[ivory thunder]

an ganymede perhaps

[dusk crow]

All this images are just 1min exposure
iPhone 17 Pro
114/500 telescope
Bortel 6

[zealous edge]

'Ery Noice! What's the target in the 6th image?

bortle 6 definitely helps, HorseHead visible with just one minute of integration and a phone camera is kind of crazy

[dusk crow]

It’s M33

[grizzled lance]

Europa shadow transit on jupiter

The shadow is soo small but somehow captured it

It was visible thru eye

I need to buy a barlow next time

[zealous edge]

got a somewhat nice video of the moon last night before it got cloudy

I actually observed the dark side of the moon for the first time last night, I had never been able to actually see that before. Idk how, I figured it would be an easier target

apologies for the shakiness lol

[coral cedar]

Very cool!

[ivory thunder]

moon pics keep doing this and it's highkey pissing me off so much
I've taken at least 50.today and they've all done this

[zealous edge]

what exactly are they doing?

[ivory thunder]

going all blurry

usually they're like this

[zealous edge]

Ah

was it a seeing issue? Or was the phone camera just being weird?

[analog seal]

what scope?

[zealous edge]

Orion StarBlast dob; 114mm aperture, 450mm focal length f4

[ivory thunder]

mix of both probably
phone camera keeps turning the iso up and down

• weird air

[analog seal]

Damn because that is sharp

[zealous edge]

Something I've noticed when I press my phone's camera against an eyepiece, no matter how good the focus in the eyepiece is, the image always looks out of focus in the phone. I actually have to intentionally put the telescope out of focus, for it to be focused on the phone camera.

idk if that has anything to do with it, but I figured it was worth mentioning

[ivory thunder]

for me it's after I take the picture when it's loading into the gallery it defocuses then (broke ahh has no eyepiece)

[zealous edge]

It looks much sharper to the eye, the phone camera simply cannot do it any justice.

[analog seal]

bro my 130mm cant do that

probably because it has a spherical mirror

[ivory thunder]

as in it looks focused on the camera but when I take the photo its blurry

not blurry more smudged

[analog seal]

but im glad i got a 8 inch dob now

And a planetary camera coming up

[zealous edge]

Oh ok, huh. That might honestly just be software in the camera being weird, lots of newer phones have little post processing built into the camera, apple's newer phones attempt to Ai upscale images after you take the photo. It actually works pretty great in good lighting with a well defined target, without too much visual complication throughout the composition.

With "weird" and bright things like the moon, it gets confused and tries smoothening things

[ivory thunder]

it's probably that tbh

but it's weird that it only happens sometimes

[zealous edge]

What model telescope is it?

[analog seal]

Its a Skywatcher Explorer 130

[zealous edge]

hmm

[analog seal]

It was once outside for a whole month when it was snowing so it might just be optically cooked but the mirrors dont look bad

or possibly i were just not at the right phase

[ivory thunder]

bro snowgraved his scope

[analog seal]

I didnt, the previous owner did

since we got that scope for free

[ivory thunder]

dam

still tho

[analog seal]

Yeah

[ivory thunder]

did they just forget it was outside or

[analog seal]

Yeah forget it

because apparrently their kids starting playing with it

[zealous edge]

I don't think it does have one, the website says it has a parabolic

[ivory thunder]

how the hell do you forget a whole ass scope outside for a month and not wonder where it is 😭

and it's so easy to stop kids from messing with it too (maybe not, depends really)

[zealous edge]

is it a matter of collimation maybe? My StarBlast has very good collimation at the moment, it's optics are so ridiculously sharp when the seeing is good (and the surface I have it on isn't wobbly and unstable)

[analog seal]

Yeah its probably not collimated

Should i collimate it before i sell it?

[analog seal]

I have no idea lol

[zealous edge]

I mean, if you want to make it easier on the buyer, but hey! If you collimate it well, you should take a look through it, try it out for some time and see if you notice any improvements.

[analog seal]

Yeah i think i should make it easier for the buyer

[zealous edge]

You may not want to sell it if you like it enough afterwards!

[analog seal]

One of my previous scopes when i showed pictures of what you can get threw it, it got sold in like a day

Even tho barely anyone does astronomy in finland lol

i mean

Are interested in astronomy

[analog seal]

No i will sell it

Theres really no reason for me to not sell it

The mount is shit

[zealous edge]

You could always try building a Dobsonian mount for the optical tube, that'll make it much easier to use

[analog seal]

Most of the mount is made of plastic except the tripod

[zealous edge]

Yeah that's not great

[analog seal]

I already have a 8 inch dob that peforms way better

[zealous edge]

Ohhhh ok

[analog seal]

Its not that i dont like the scope

[zealous edge]

I didn't know you had anything else, I thought that was your only telescope

[analog seal]

Its that because i already have a 8 inch lol

[analog seal]

yeah dw

[analog seal]

i did hint it out but i dont really care

But your scope is still great

Because it looks sharp

or maybe you just collimated it well unlike me

[zealous edge]

The StarBlast really is one of the best beginner scopes

[analog seal]

too bad orion went bankrupt

[zealous edge]

Honestly yeah, it's such a shame

[analog seal]

Because they have made amazing scopes and even mounts as what i have heard

[zealous edge]

I'm glad to have a StarBlast, not just for its great performance and ease of use, but also that it's an iconic piece of Orion Optics' history

[analog seal]

Yup

[zealous edge]

I got one of the last ones they ever shipped out I think, the link to it went dead within days after I ordered it

[analog seal]

Dang

are you planning to ever get a new scope tho?

[zealous edge]

Ideally, I'd love to get a nice 8" dob or a big light bucket some day

If everyone could have anything, I'd have one of those huge 20" F4 Obsession dobs

definitely want a good Ha Solar telescope someday too, I'm thinking of either the Lunt 60 or HelioStar 76, but if I could afford a huge one I'd definitely get the Lunt 152

[analog seal]

Yeah those are great but painful to maintain

[analog seal]

same i would love to do some solar imaging except im broke

[zealous edge]

The HelioStar 76 is a nice budget option if you want decent aperture at a (relatively) affordable price

76mm of solar aperture, comes out around $3,400.00

[robust fog]

Seems fitting astrobiscuit used it on latest video

https://www.reddit.com/r/MotionCamPro/comments/1pv7f5g/1000_members_christmas_giveaway_ten_free/

If anyone wants a free chance at a license 🙂 I love it for cheap solar and astro

[keen pewter]

Hm focus or some dew on ur phone camera?

[zealous edge]

the focus was fine, no dew either. I think it's just the less than ideal camera conditions; iPhone camera quality, plus the fact that I was merely holding the camera against the eyepiece without any actual attachments keeping it in place.

[bold coral]

jupier in Raw using a phone and a 6" (no barlow)

[coral cedar]

Cool!

[spice gale]

Cool you even got the red spot

[bold coral]

red spot in red color

[spice gale]

Yea very nice

[untold ingot]

not anymore

[spice gale]

😭

[formal notch]

Yeah, sequator distortion fix works pretty well

[coral cedar]

Yess

[formal notch]

I did astro tonight (very little ), a small video

I just love it when discord compresses

[coral cedar]

Is that celestron 114 eq?

[formal notch]

Similar,

Not quite

Mount different, branding different, tube may be the same

[clear frost]

you mean that shadow portion, you cant see the dark side of the moon, you are reffering to the earthshine

[coral cedar]

I see..

[sage wren]

Jupiter got censored lmaooo

[zealous edge]

yes that's what i was referring to.

[ivory thunder]

unintentionally caught a sunspot while taking pictures of the sunset

(little black dot above the corner of the building)

[bold coral]

BREAKING NEWS🛑

nasa say that the great red spot from jupiter has disapeared

[bold coral]

Nooo my red spot

[untold ingot]

sunspot

[ivory thunder]

yes

[spice gale]

Thats so cool

Must have a clean sky

[ivory thunder]

kinda
air is hella turbulent rn

can't even get the moon properly

[spice gale]

Yea intried geting jupiter

Hope in a minute long video ill get one good frame

Also did a couple of shots of orion and flame nebula

Ill edit them in a sec

[ivory thunder]

i got jubeter but my phone camera is bad at point sources in general, keeps focusing back n forth

[spice gale]

Try using a different app

Camera app, not the default one

It helped me with my iphone problems

[untold ingot]

sun wobble

[ivory thunder]

sun flavour jelly

[sage wren]

First try, now I need to learn how to do planetary and DSO

[spice gale]

One minute sub with astroshader and a 6” dobsonian, edited too

Nothing too crazy, first night with the scope in 3 months

[sage wren]

One minute sub with a 6" dob is crazy

[spice gale]

Bortle 7 and trash atmosphere

[bold coral]

really good for 1 min

this is me with 12 mins using a 6" F5 newt and a phone camera (not iphone the phone is like $170)

i only stacked the best frames in this one and managed to capture a young solar system (mine on the left, hubble on the right)

[keen pewter]

There's 2 visible. I love seeing the proplyds

[spice gale]

Not bad

Tried capturing the running man nebula too

Failed

And flame is super dim and cant edit it to pop out more

[grizzled lance]

Idk why all the moons have ca😭
Sw 150 750 eq5 go to
Honor 90
Very good seeing tbf

[spice gale]

Beautiful details wow

[untold ingot]

moons have Ca for strong bones

[untold ingot]

nice jupiterb btw

[clear frost]

You do know it’s only one 1 side right

[bold coral]

i mean he @untold ingot removed the GRS from my image

ohh sry she

she

[spice gale]

@spare sleet ik youre here

[spare sleet]

Yp

[scenic glen]

iPhone 17 pro , 40x Zoom | I cropped the pic a little

[ivory thunder]

also mon

[spice gale]

Anyone that could recommend me a good flat field eyepiece, around 25-30mm and 1.25”

Not the lacerta ones

[untold ingot]

this reminds me of europe

[sage wren]

Moon picture from my phone

[zealous edge]

What telescope?

[sage wren]

150mm

[zealous edge]

focal length?

[sage wren]

f/4.6 sorry

[zealous edge]

nice

[dusk crow]

Just tryd hdr moon with just IPhone Kamera

[untold ingot]

interesting

[untold ingot]

i see moon bunni

[spice gale]

ignoringbthe quality why is that not bad at all

[untold ingot]

due to phone AP not that sucky now

[spice gale]

how do you have hat coolname

[spice gale]

speaking of phone ap im imaging orion right now with my phone

[untold ingot]

pog

[untold ingot]

my attempt

selfie with orion is good

except i looked too masculine in that pic so i replace face with emoji

[spice gale]

[untold ingot]

theres raw version per every jpeg

[untold ingot]

also why is betelgeuse on right here

[untold ingot]

its left here

oh wait nvm

am dumb

[spice gale]

woa

also just realised that my data might be useless, it got some weird artifacts in every sub that i took💔

[untold ingot]

me too

use flats

to remove artifacting

[spice gale]

mmm ill see after i finish trhese subs, i fixed the problem now and the subs look amaixing

[scenic glen]

How‘d you do that

It Looks good

[dusk crow]

Thats how

[scenic glen]

Achsoo

Thank you 👍

[spice gale]

Done imaging

[bold coral]

STACK THAT SHI🗣️ 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

ASAP

you will be killing it

[untold ingot]

https://tenor.com/view/no-nope-no-way-noo-absolutely-not-gif-20244171

its been in my gallary for a year

yes

thats last year pic

[untold ingot]

ok i'll do that

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1n8r-QdVExoeWxU_A2iQM8vfdOc-0kRc2?usp=sharing

i expect bad quality tho

[untold ingot]

yeah i have 0 hope

PLEASE

[spice gale]

Guys here are my results of orion

1h 20m of data, 40x 120s
Bortle 7
Sw dobson heritage 150mm scope and iphone 15 pro camera

[untold ingot]

🥺

[untold ingot]

4m of data
24x of 15s
bortle 6
Tripod, My phone

to be fair

you have like uhh

20x more time

also a scope

(i had no scope)

and probably tracking mount or somethin

[spice gale]

Damn no scope and you still have that small bubble over orion

[untold ingot]

what is small bubble

this is my full result btw

[spice gale]

Like right above orion where there is a small star in the middle, looks like a bubble, forgot the name of it

[untold ingot]

ah

[untold ingot]

the low res is probably cos i cropped it

i mean the nebula is like less than 1% of that image

[spice gale]

Next time do pleaides, should get a hint of nebulosity

[untold ingot]

if i had better zoom or better aiming i could have do that

[untold ingot]

next winter

btw that data is last winter

this winter ima eep

gn

[untold ingot]

the data btw

[spice gale]

Ohh

[coral cedar]

Holy sh

What tracker u have

120 second?

[bold coral]

u know what im gonna stack it for u😌

[bold coral]

ohh u already did nvm

[untold ingot]

mine sucks

[bold coral]

but still ill do it

[untold ingot]

i know u can do better

thanks

[bold coral]

ill see if can get spome more detail

[untold ingot]

thank u for kindness sucrose

[bold coral]

i sent a freind request ill send u there

the final img

[untold ingot]

send it here if u want

just ping me to credit

honestly processing is more than half of work imo

and i think its atleast partially ur pic

[spice gale]

none

[spice gale]

yea kind of pushed the limits

[coral cedar]

How did you manage to capture 120s?

Without tracker that's insane

[spice gale]

Yea kind of took advantage of the 25mm eyepiece

Let orion slide trough my fov

Here is a starless version which i like more

[bold coral]

orion by @untold ingot processed by me

5.1 mins of exposure

[spice gale]

Ayy you got a hint of flame nebula too

[bold coral]

even the horse head emmition nebula

this is my pic with 15 mins of exposure

[spice gale]

You can def see the emissions of horsehead, the gradient is huge tho

[formal notch]

My try at flame, 5mins of exposure (maybe) untracked , 114/900 scope,Samsung A36 5g

Test stack by openlivestacker

[ivory thunder]

despite the weird air and clouds/fog I got some actual clear moon pics!!

[untold ingot]

where tf is the flame

[scenic glen]

I see it

[untold ingot]

am blind

[scenic glen]

There is a slight change n color there , matching with the outline of the flame nebula

[untold ingot]

damn

[lean magnet]

i see horse too

its just barely above the noise floor tho

[untold ingot]

where

[untold ingot]

uhh

same vibe

[untold ingot]

wheres the head exactly

[lean magnet]

its very slightly darker under the orange circle and red box

[lean magnet]

i dont see the head i just see extremely faint signs of the nebula