Phone Astrophotography

[dusk crow]

The Moon 19%

[fading bobcat]

Earthshine mentioned

[ivory thunder]

aaaa

[echo tide]

Is 1.0 focus "infinity" in deepskycamerm ?

This is 1.0 focus

And this is "infinity" focus from the settings

[pine grove]

That's the real Infinity

Or at least come close to it

[echo tide]

Can I make it more "infinit-ier" than that ?

[echo tide]

Can I take multiple frames tonight?

[echo tide]

Btw does real infinity focus even exists, if it does then how would stars appear like, would they become smaller than the camera's resolution?

[pine grove]

This is your resolution limit of your Optics

Well your phone lens isn't exactly big

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_resolution

[echo tide]

For any camera, like what creates this apparent size of the light comming from any visible star, like that bloom thingy

[echo tide]

So theoretically if a camera's lens focus point was truly infinite and it is capturing a star and the star is bright enough to be visible from eyes or any other camera with normal "infinite" focus then would that star not appear in this theoretical "real" infinite focus camera due to camera resolution?

[pine grove]

In the perfect theory, it would only be one pixel in size

[echo tide]

So this real infinite focus that normal cameras have creates the star light's size ?

It's actually not infinity focus

Like it's focus point being infinitely fae

Far*

[pine grove]

Yee exactly

You can't ressolve a star

[echo tide]

Oh

Alright

[pine grove]

Not a single hobby astrophotographer can resolve a star

You are always limited by your optic and the atmosphere

In your situation, the atmosphere is not a measurable factor

It depends on how well your Optic does the job

and how well you can set the focus with the software

[echo tide]

Oh

[echo tide]

Even if the star is really bright ?

[pine grove]

That only makes it easier to see the airy disk

[echo tide]

Oh this interference pattern

[pine grove]

Yee

This is what infinite focus looks like

That's how it should look

[dusk crow]

Finding Jupiter in Raw Daylight with my IPhone

[dusk crow]

It was easy to find, because it is close to the Moon

[untold ingot]

if parabola is infinity focus

is hyperbola or sphere or whatever a infinity plus

i think ellipse is finite focus

and hyperbola is infinity plus

[echo tide]

So our eyes are not parabola ?
I only heard about reflectors being parabolic, spherical or other but not for lenses which many camera and human eyes use.

[blissful grotto]

wow how did you manage to get the dark side without over exposing the image

[untold ingot]

i meant it in reflector context

lenz, idk

[dusk crow]

This is edited, I have a dark Full moon Overlay

[indigo shuttle]

HOW!?

i have an iphone 16e how can i do this

[zealous edge]

Well you need a telescope first of all, I used my 114mm Orion StarBlast dob

I also used a Narrowband Filter from Astronomik, which filters out all wavelengths of light except for the narrow emission spectrum of nebulae, so Hα, Oiii, Sii, and Hß.

The filtration helps reduce the effects of light pollution, and slightly improves color. Does not help with reflection nebulae or galaxies (save for M33, because M33 has an obnoxious amount of emission nebulae and star forming regions)

I live in a Bortle 7 ~ 8, which is definitely not ideal. Idk what Bortle you live in, so you could have it better or worse than I do.

All I did really was press my phone camera against the eyepiece, used a ten second exposure, and tried keeping my hand as still as possible.

[zealous edge]

Depending on what bortle you live in, what your budget is for a telescope (assuming you don't already have one), how big your telescope is if you have one already, your patience with your phone, exposure time, and what filtration you use (if any), you could get a similar image if not better than mine.

you can get better results than that even, using actual image stacking and longer integration than only ten seconds.

Honestly I think the biggest hurtle is patience and understanding the difficulty of what you're up against

once you've made it past that and you've developed some patience for the process (no matter how easy or infuriating), you can get some pretty ok images

[blissful grotto]

ohh cool bro

[echo tide]

Oohh

[echo tide]

I just tired manually changing the focus using my phone's default camera app and then deep sky camera and tried to get perfect focus at moon and I found out that in :-

• My phone's default camera, at 1.00 focus moon appeared blurry and was sharpest at around 0.90 - 0.94 focus.

• In deep sky camera with manual focus, the moon was sharpest between 1.30 to 2.10 focus

[dusk crow]

ISS, Moon Transit Daylight

[short sleet]

A better pic of orion than before

The bluetooth shutter helped a lot to reduce the vibration while shooting orion

[scenic glen]

Very nice

[short sleet]

Pls clean ur lens🙏😭

[vagrant rose]

Exposure?

[wind spoke]

I was boutta make a mineral moon with your image but it turned out to be a b&w 😭

[wind spoke]

you better not be another B&W

You son of a...

Nah just kidding ur good

[wind spoke]

You look promising

[wind spoke]

You too

Moon wasn't big enough for a mineral but i managed to show the dark side a little more without overexposing the bright side

[blissful grotto]

what does b&w mean loll

[wind spoke]

@dusk crow I improved ur image

[wind spoke]

Black and White

I'll see if i can improve his image a bit more

[blissful grotto]

ohh i can send you the original one i only turned down the vibrance

[wind spoke]

Thanks

Preferibly full moon

Improved Yasir's image a bit more

[wind spoke]

thanks

i'll try to make it a mineral moon

[blissful grotto]

holy i would really want to see how it turns out

[wind spoke]

I had no idea why it was looking horrible so i decided to just get the raw image on itself and saturate it at 100% and wth is this

half of the moon has no color

Srry but this best i could make out of it

That empty spot didn't help a lot. Sorry

[blissful grotto]

it's alright my phone camera is not that great and there was clouds

btw how can i do it i really want to

[wind spoke]

I'm just using these for excersicing a lil bit

[wind spoke]

Alr so you just need to take a good image of the moon (a ccd works perfect and i'd rather use it for a mossaic)

if you're using a ccd use an ir/uv cut filter

now the next step is once you have the image go into photoshop or any other advanced image editor

you're going to first duplicate your image layer

then the duplicated image you're going to increase saturation by 15-20% 4-5 times

don't do it 60 or 75 or even 80 or 100 saturation at once

that ruins the image

now after you did that move the untouched layer to the top if it's not already and select luminosity in where it says normal in photoshop

and that'd be basically it

[blissful grotto]

thanks a lot bro

my problem is that i can't do a mossaic becuase my telescope is manual

so it wont keep the same spot in

plus my phone's camera is so trash

but i'll try my best

thanks

[untold ingot]

mineral moom

[untold ingot]

can i do mineral moon with this

[wind spoke]

no u cant physically not possible

it's b&w

if it's b&w there are no colors

which means no mineral moon'

srry

[untold ingot]

yes

its impossible

[untold ingot]

yea hmm

I wonder tho...

is mineral moon possible

[wind spoke]

yes it is

just as the earth is round

(cause the earth is flat )

[untold ingot]

what

[wind spoke]

it's a joke sis

obviously i know earth is round

[untold ingot]

🥺 i keep missing tbe joke

[short sleet]

1.3 seconds

[dusk crow]

I am finally at B4 but now what?
Full Moon😭
I did 10min imagine

[blissful grotto]

dang it

what is the problem with it

cuz i'd love to take a mineral moon

[untold ingot]

idk

[blissful grotto]

it's all because of the clouds i hate them

https://giphy.com/gifs/lSDFetrqeeY0rCi3Ss

[ivory thunder]

mjorn

[wind spoke]

Oversaturated moon

This is the original one

it's sideways dunno why

Fixed colors a lil bit 😄

Mineral moon let's goooo

[wind spoke]

PERFECTION

[blissful grotto]

yoooo who's picture is this

[wind spoke]

Mine

Also btw if you want to get rid of extra red light that turns your image into a mess just press Shift+Ctrl+B on photoshop

that'll fix it

[fading bobcat]

this one is probably the best

the others have poor bg's/false colors that look off

[wind spoke]

Bortle doesn't matter for planetary, only deep sky

[pulsar glade]

Define deep sky

[zealous edge]

Deep Sky Objects consist of anything outside of our solar system. Planets, the Moon, the Sun, and anything else orbiting the Sun are NOT Deep Sky.

Nebulae, Galaxies, IFN, and everything else that is not orbiting our parent star, IS Deep Sky. The vast majority of Deep Sky Objects are quite dim, if even seeable. Whereas the Sun, Moon, and most Planets are visible naked eye, and can be seen easily using a telescope of appropriate size with enough magnification, completely regardless of light pollution or Bortle level.

Do not look at the Sun with a normal telescope, without proper solar filtration, or with the naked eye for extended periods of time. Only look at the Sun using proper white-light filtration or ISO rated black solar film, or if you are dripping with money and REALLY love the Sun, a dedicated Ha Solar Telescope.

[pulsar glade]

oh.. I see, thanks

[blissful grotto]

hey

[wind spoke]

sup

[blissful grotto]

is this a minearal moon ?

hold on

[wind spoke]

i'll wait

[blissful grotto]

i did this with light room bc i dont have paid photoshop

[wind spoke]

that's progress

you can do a white balance to get rid of extra light

like extra ir and red light

[blissful grotto]

i tried i suck at editing

i really need to impove it

[wind spoke]

You can use registax or other planetary processing free programs

[blissful grotto]

i have astro surface

registax refused to dowload for me lol

[wind spoke]

fair enough

actually that one's sorta better

[blissful grotto]

[grizzled lance]

Slightly cloudy🤧

[scenic glen]

Low moon , iPhone 17 pro

[clever anvil]

finally someone with superior knowledge

ofc earth is fuckin flat

if u travel far enough

u will see the frozen dinos too

that were flung off by the asteroid

[clever anvil]

i am saving this

[blissful grotto]

loll don't worry i stole it too

[clever anvil]

lmaoo

[blissful grotto]

https://klipy.com/gifs/smiling-friends-psychicpebbles-2

[wind spoke]

They want to hide it from us

[dusk crow]

30min, M51 with my 114/500 telescope from B6
25x magnification
iPhone 17 pro

[coral cedar]

very nice

[blissful grotto]

Nice shot is your telescope go to ?

[dusk crow]

No sadly

[blissful grotto]

Really then how do you get long exposures ?

[dusk crow]

I did with with AstroShader it’s stacks the images for me

[blissful grotto]

Frr ? Can you send me a tutorial vid on YouTube or somewhere else

Btw where are you from

[dusk crow]

Are you on iPhone?

[blissful grotto]

Yeah i have one

[dusk crow]

The app only works on iPhone

[blissful grotto]

Yeah i know i do have an iphone

[dusk crow]

There are many things to explain maybe search on YT for AstroShader app and you know some basics

[blissful grotto]

Sure I'll try thanks

[dusk crow]

30min one Leo Triplet

[sage wren]

Excellent follow up to that

[short sleet]

Autostreched?

[short sleet]

More data and use starnet to remove those star trail

But it's soo good

[dusk crow]

Autostacker and Siril process

[short sleet]

Is it autostreched?

[short sleet]

Hth u still no get mininerd

[dreamy pebble]

Blind oneshot of M4 through an 8" SCT

it ain't much, but the fact that it worked at all is impressive

[flat pendant]

a SCT used by mr RC??

[frank jungle]

Moon Timelapse from 21st March to 2nd April

[spice gale]

So good

[frank jungle]

Thanks Dominic

[indigo shuttle]

Man whenever i photograph the moon on my iphone 16e it just looks like jupiter with 100% exposure 🥀🥀

[zealous edge]

the moon isn't a great target for unaided phone captures, too bright and small. You can reduce the ISO and pick up detail that way, but the image will be much dimmer.

[indigo shuttle]

How do i reduce the ISO on an iphone??

[dusk crow]

I did this image with my old iPhone 13, 26mm Kamera,
I use AstroShader and did a high shutter speed and a low iso

[zealous edge]

You can tap the screen while using the camera, and you'll see a square reticle appear where you tap. Sliding your finger up or down across this reticle brings up a Ui that allows you turn the ISO up or down.

[clear frost]

M51 50 seconds total integration

[zealous edge]

a tad bit noisy when you zoom in

[indigo shuttle]

thats brightness

[clear frost]

Well….. it’s 1 sub

Here is raw

[spice gale]

You did more than 1?

[clear frost]

No

[spice gale]

Wait is it 50s x 1 or 1s x 50 livestacked

[clear frost]

It’s just 1, 50 second sub

[spice gale]

Good tracking

[clear frost]

Yeah it’s a 24” dob

[spice gale]

[clear frost]

lol

[keen pewter]

Show that dob 🙂

[clear frost]

Happy?

[spice gale]

Huuuuge

[keen pewter]

Not that big tbh. Room for a 60 inch there I see

[scenic glen]

Where do you Even buy that😭

[clear frost]

It’s not mine it was custom made

[dusk crow]

I capture M106 with my telescope,
30min total exposure

There are many faint galaxy’s visible like +300m lightiyear

[clear frost]

Awesome

[ornate scarab]

Global cluster in Hercules

[ornate scarab]

All from a phone..

[clear frost]

No it was a phone through a telescope

[sage wren]

What the hell

50 second tracking with a 24" dob is crazy

[coral cedar]

i dont know how much i love the data ive captured, i reprocessed it with my new workflow, adding cosmic clarity sharpening and did some color tweaking and better color calibration, and i end up with this image, im truly shocked what a budget phone can capture, im using infinix note 50 pro, its not a high end, its low - mid mudget handphone that ive bought and i did not very did not regret it at all, asthonished with te result, cannot complain at all, altough im shooting this at b4, and its only 1 hour and 40 minutes integration, i can tell phone really did a great job xD

[real nymph]

Is there any special role to be able to post here?

[pine grove]

Bru

That is beautiful

[coral cedar]

thankss bro!

im still very exicted with the result, beyond my expectation tbh

[pine grove]

yeeee

Can you share the stack ?

[coral cedar]

sure!!

[pine grove]

Thx

[coral cedar]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LRD1YiRysVHMdzT02c3HXOOYxr5qalnK/view?usp=sharing here

anybody can process it too!

[coral cedar]

i think you need to ask mod

[real nymph]

Do you knw any mods here

[coral cedar]

try text in https://discord.com/channels/794642864218439681/873888728848936960

or https://discord.com/channels/794642864218439681/794653768909979708

[pine grove]

:D

[coral cedar]

O_o

Wowwwww

[pine grove]

you did not use a mount right ?

[coral cedar]

yep

im untracked

[pine grove]

oh yea

i forgot

you have no mount yet

[coral cedar]

stacks artefact sucks 🙁

[pine grove]

yee with the mount it will work better

and you dont need a crazy mount

[coral cedar]

yep eq3 will do the work xD

[pine grove]

yeee

can you show a singel sub

[coral cedar]

yep sure

its actually alot darker, because im on my pc it autostretch it

[pine grove]

can you zoom on the edges of the frame

i want to see the star shapes

[coral cedar]

bottom right

[pine grove]

looks ok

[coral cedar]

bottom left

top left

top right

[coral cedar]

ikr

but the thing makes the distortion its the alignment

[pine grove]

a 3mm lens moment

[coral cedar]

im so not consistent aligning them with good angle especially with dark night skies, i have really like

hard time aligning them lol

so instead i use feeling

[pine grove]

yea

yea u have fild rotation

[coral cedar]

like this for example

some of them are straight, some of them are 45 degree lol, so its not consistent

[pine grove]

yea

[coral cedar]

i reduce it with stacking at sequator, it has distortion remover

you dont wanna stack in siril tho lol

look at the northern region, massive distortion effect

[pine grove]

yea

you can try dss

and then use mosaik mode

[coral cedar]

even worse xD

[coral cedar]

wait you can do that at dss?

[pine grove]

yea

its even sharper then the standart modes in my expirience

[coral cedar]

ohhhh wowww

i gotta learn that

lemme try restack them xD

[pine grove]

yee

[clear frost]

Is the phone on a mount?

[coral cedar]

nope, im untracked xD

[clear frost]

Crazy

[pine grove]

not bad for the pixelscale

[coral cedar]

lol

did not go well

[coral cedar]

thanks xD

[pine grove]

uff

[coral cedar]

Niceee heck yeahhh

[pine grove]

Thanks

[ornate scarab]

How in the…

Dang

Most I’ve got is this

[clever anvil]

yooooooo that is beautiful

what bortle class?

[pine grove]

Bortel 4

[clever anvil]

ohh

and how much integration?

[shadow idol]

the wasps cannot read 🥀

[sage wren]

Poopiter

[dusk crow]

Moon and plejades trough my binoculars 7x50

[pastel nexus]

Really nice shot

[dusk crow]

Thank you

[clear frost]

I love this

[ornate scarab]

Montes Apenninus

[dusk crow]

Sombereo Galxy,
30min
0,8s subs iso 32000
Bortel 6
I had many very bad conditions

[ornate scarab]

Wild

This was my recent revision.

[digital parrot]

wait this is not a phone am i stupid

🤦‍♂️

[dreamy pebble]

Jupiter in the daytime

[dreamy pebble]

actually in focus

[lean magnet]

what time?

[dreamy pebble]

6 PM or so

[dusk crow]

Jupiter so bright it appears 2 times in the image😅

[short sleet]

Reduce exposure and iso until u see Jupiters colour

[dusk crow]

I know, I was just trying something different

[dusk crow]

Moon is rising up,
Shot on iPhone

[spice gale]

Sick image

[untold ingot]

the noise... is walking

[zealous edge]

wait that's actually kinda sick looking

you can see Earth shine in the unlit side, makes the moon look extremely 3D in this photo

that's genuinely really neat

[dusk crow]

Thank you for your feedback,
But you know the Earthshine is edited, but it makes the image more interesting

[distant epoch]

What did you do to make the dark side of the moon visible

[fading bobcat]

Idk if i agree for daytime work.

[distant epoch]

I'm confused because it doesn't look like an HDR image

It looks darker than the sky which idk how that's possible

[fading bobcat]

Its not thats why I dont like it

I do similar work with my night shots but daylight its literally impossible no?

Ugh this one's pixelated lemme find another

[distant epoch]

It's not impossible to see earthshine during the day, but the dark side being darker than the sky makes no sense because the sky would just overpower it

I've seen earthshine during the day many times

[distant epoch]

But it has to be brighter than the sky for obvious reasons

I've attempted hdr photos, but because I have a not great phone it didn't work well lol

[fading bobcat]

Seeing it during peak day with that bright of blue sky (and at that phase) is basically not possible

Remember it gets harder to see as the phases grow. Its mostly done during crescent moon

In my case ive always done psuedo-earthshine via a darkened full moon shot I had gotten with my setup that I use for all my other lunar shots

[fading bobcat]

This one included. Both the phased and full moon were from my svbony 48p

[fading bobcat]

The phase and full moon here were from my askar fma180

[distant epoch]

Yeah ik, just saying it's not impossible in other phases, but it would look brighter than the sky not darker because that's just how light works lol

Also here was my attempt at HDR, if your wondering why venus is there I took it the same day and was trying to stylize it rather than make it accurate

[dusk crow]

I use a secondary layer with a dark full moon

[fading bobcat]

Its actually pretty neat. Now make Venus to scale

Unless im crazy and it is

[distant epoch]

Nah it isn't, it's smaller

[distant epoch]

Ah

[zealous edge]

awww man why'd you tell me that

[ivory thunder]

m

[ornate scarab]

Just last nights shot. I really want to get those minerals out but the image may be too bright.

[fading bobcat]

This is a little agressive probably, but I tried to help you out a little bit with this

You're gonna have weird color noise so you cant push the mineral colors so much

[ornate scarab]

This was taken with pro camera so I kinda figured that’s why.

This was taken with a regular camera the iPhone gives and this was the result but the thing is idk how I did this.

[spice gale]

Finally did some planetary, and despite the high clouds, the atmosphere was crystal clear

[spice gale]

And some close up shots of the moon

[ivory thunder]

no way samd

iops forgot i send it already

rip in piss

[ornate scarab]

Stacked by a friend. Unfortunately I cannot do that yet

[dusk crow]

Sorry Jupiter🥲
440 magnification, and crob to 1320x
a 114/500 newton btw

[coral cedar]

after a long long time, finally i put my phone again and taking pictures of the moon

SCTW 102 eq3, Infinix note 50 pro, 120 frames stacked, svbony 23mm aspheric lens, sv137 2x barlow lens, Deep sky camera, pipp align, AS!4 for stacking, Registax for wavelet sharpening, PS for compositing

[dreamy pebble]

Wait, the cheap plastic 23 mm aspheric?
Actually a decently good eyepiece for its price IMO, I bought one on a whim.

[coral cedar]

Yeahh it's very cheap eyepiece
Quality was mid, distortion at the edge is bad lol

[short sleet]

chat how this

[keen pewter]

Nice but holy walking noise

[digital parrot]

Not bad

[digital parrot]

Fr i can see it now

[short sleet]

Ik cuz phone

[short sleet]

Thanks

[short sleet]

Thanks

[keen pewter]

You can " dither " manually. 🙂

[short sleet]

I kept it stationary for the whole integration

[short sleet]

I just learned it

[keen pewter]

Awesome!

[short sleet]

Gotta move every 5 to 10 exp

[keen pewter]

Yeah that will do. Dependent on how much exposures you wanna take

[zealous edge]

how does walking noise actually happen? And how does simply repositioning yourself negate it, that's fascinating

[dreamy pebble]

It happens because of photoresponse nonuniformity (PRNU) that isn't fully accounted for by calibration frames

There is fixed noise in the sensor caused by differences in sensitivity at each photosite

The thing is, from my experience, walking noise is always much worse with OSC cameras; with mono cameras I've stacked undithered frames and the only problem I had was hot pixels

So I think it has a lot to do with the Bayer matrix

Probably different amounts of transparency associated with each color filter

It might also have to do with the quality of flat frames, because a linear sensor should completely calibrate the variation out with good biases and flats

[zealous edge]

how does physically repositioning your camera (or rig) negate walking noise? It seems like something so minuscule to have such a big impact.

[dreamy pebble]

Different parts of the image get captured by different photosites, so you're essentially denoising the FPN by smearing it around the image

[zealous edge]

Ah ok, i just figured the noise pattern inside the camera would be the same, regardless of where it's physically standing

[dreamy pebble]

It is, but if you reposition the camera, different parts of the image are combined with different sensor noise patterns

The actual image is enhanced by stacking, but the FPN is averaged out

[zealous edge]

Ah ok

I feel like I'd need a visual representation or example to help understand, though idk if that exists anywhere

[dreamy pebble]

even if you don't have a significant FPN contribution, dithering does help with rejecting hot pixels, so it should be done for any astrophotographic image. It is not essential for photometry

[zealous edge]

that makes sense

[dreamy pebble]

What might help conceptually is to think of every image you take as having two components: the actual image you capture, and an image of the sensor's fixed pattern noise

Those contributions are added together

[zealous edge]

Is that why Alt-Az tracking AP rigs don't typically see walking noise, since the field is constantly rotating?

[dreamy pebble]

The thing is, if the motion of the sensor is not random, the nonuniformities can smear across the direction of the tracking error

So that's why walking noise can look streaky in some images

Especially untracked ones

[zealous edge]

alright, I understand better I think

I appreciate the guidance, apologies for the inconvenience

[ornate scarab]

[woeful raptor]

I see it tho

[digital parrot]

XD

[coral cedar]

now when im going to process my full moon image, i cant unsee it

[untold ingot]

get fricked

[blissful grotto]

just close your eyes

https://tenor.com/view/flight-stare-meme-flight-streamer-streamer-gif-5233057445165222745

[scenic glen]

ISS
You can make out the inner(brighter) part with the modules and radiators

And the solar pannels + Truss section(not as bright)

iPhone 17pro 4x Tele + 90/600 or smth like that refractor , handheld\handtracked (just no mount)

[dusk crow]

You need a higher shutter speed

Like 1/1500s

[dusk crow]

Seeing can’t get more worse than this 😭

The spider are not even visible anymore from my newton

[scenic glen]

Okay I will try that next time , thanks

[keen pewter]

that’s so bad hahah

[ornate scarab]

Party on… a star

[dusk crow]

Jupiter..

[ornate scarab]

Oh bro… that is insane

[dusk crow]

Yes

[ornate scarab]

This is with absolutely crap conditions

[silk flint]

are you imaging through a tree

[dusk crow]

No it was clear

[silk flint]

why’s it SOOO wobbly

[keen pewter]

Atmosphere

[atomic rampart]

Oh damn

[silk flint]

what scope bro whaaatt

[pine grove]

with his phone lens

[ornate scarab]

So noisy…..

[zealous edge]

This image is very loud

[dusk crow]

Imagine

[silk flint]

this cant be real

[digital parrot]

smart eyepiece (yes these exist and cost 1000 dollars

[silk flint]

smart eyepieces sound dumb

[digital parrot]

pretty much a camera (a good one) with live stacking and a OLED screen at the back for you to look

it live stacks what it sees ,

[silk flint]

2x the price of the seestar but bad

[digital parrot]

the camera is really good+pretty sure it can be used for regular astrophotography

[silk flint]

https://tenor.com/view/lebron-james-walkout-im-out-im-leaving-gif-11924645

[ornate scarab]

Idk what else to say lol

[zealous edge]

looks like an oil painting of M42, rather than an actual photo of it

which reminds me actually, I should draw space objects more

[ornate scarab]

I’ll take that

[sage wren]

My phone doesn't want to capture in anything but jpeg wtf

[short sleet]

@keen pewter how it looks😁

Got rid of walking noise @dreamy pebble

Thanks for the help

I thought of taking it with fore ground

But failed miserably

[dreamy pebble]

Sick

[short sleet]

Thanks

[coral cedar]

Looks good!

[coral cedar]

Reminding me of my first milky Way stacks image, looked almost exactly like this xD

[short sleet]

Thanks

[keen pewter]

Looks good✨

[short sleet]

thanks

[keen pewter]

What bortle was that shot in?

[short sleet]

5 ish

[keen pewter]

nice job!

[short sleet]

thanks

[silk flint]

you phone addicts are getting better pics than me

[formal notch]

planetary phone ap reaching another level from when i had seen last time wow

[dusk crow]

Jupiter and Venus with 440x
A Small 114/500 f4,4 btw

[formal notch]

cool

[formal notch]

Jupiter (stack using 10mm lens, new one with 4mm processing)-
114/900 scope, 10mm lens and gso2x barlow

[ivory thunder]

jumbider

[ornate scarab]

Quality is actually nice

Which dob

[grizzled lance]

Nah its 8sct

[ornate scarab]

Ah

[grizzled lance]

Thanks man

[ornate scarab]

Your quality is much better than this

[grizzled lance]

Lemme check it now rq

Shaky hands

[ornate scarab]

Dawg what is your camera you are shooting with

[grizzled lance]

My phone

[ornate scarab]

Yea which type lol

[grizzled lance]

My adaptor broke 😢

Honor 90

Super underrated imo

[grizzled lance]

Defo better than Samsung budget midrange phones r class

[ornate scarab]

Look how noisy this is bro

I don’t have a adapter yet

[grizzled lance]

Nah i think the moon was moving and blurred it

Yh it has potential

The adapter really changes everything

[ornate scarab]

Yea

I need to get one

[grizzled lance]

Lmao lemme try get that region

[grizzled lance]

Its worth it bro trust

[ornate scarab]

Montes app

Flipped the image for you

[grizzled lance]

Sick image tho much better than mind

Did you take thst few days ago

[ornate scarab]

Bro no it’s not lol come on now

[ornate scarab]

Months

[grizzled lance]

Ohh

Cuz the shadow make the structure standout more

It good tho

[ornate scarab]

Real?

[grizzled lance]

What's your setup?

[ornate scarab]

I think it looks like crud

[ornate scarab]

Skywatcher 130p and very stable arms lol

[grizzled lance]

Damn

Bruh that's good for that set up

Your using f5 and less aperture

[ornate scarab]

Tbh idk what you just said lol

[grizzled lance]

Oh

[ornate scarab]

I still have yet to learn all of that

[grizzled lance]

your set up is more for dso

[ornate scarab]

I’m learning what exposure does and such

And iso

[grizzled lance]

And like it has less resolution than mine

Its impressive for your equipment

[ornate scarab]

Here is what my view is live

[spice gale]

Sharp

[spice gale]

Do you have a phone adaptor?

[grizzled lance]

Clean your camera aswell

[ornate scarab]

Nope

[grizzled lance]

It'd be sharper

[spice gale]

Buy one

[ornate scarab]

It was clean

[spice gale]

Its the best investment

[ornate scarab]

It’s my freaking eyepiece

Idk how to clean it

[grizzled lance]

Ohh

What eyepiece did you use

[ornate scarab]

25 mm and 10mm

[grizzled lance]

Brand?

[ornate scarab]

Skywatcher

[grizzled lance]

Invest into better eyepiece then your images will match mine

The stock ones r meh

[ornate scarab]

What should I get

[grizzled lance]

But get phone adapter first it's good

[ornate scarab]

For like good viewing

I have a iPhone 16 so the camera is decant

Decent

[grizzled lance]

The one i used is meade series 4000 plosll

But get like 20mm celestron omni plossl

[ornate scarab]

This was my iPhone shot

[grizzled lance]

Yh my phone can't do crap

[grizzled lance]

Better eyepiece changes a bit asw

[ornate scarab]

Sick

[grizzled lance]

Your phone will do well 4 your setup

[ornate scarab]

I’m looking at getting one of those Celestron eyepieces that like zoom in

[grizzled lance]

They r ok i feel like they cause more chromatic aberration

I never owned 1 but ask others

[ornate scarab]

Gotcha

I liked showing this to people I know irl lol

[grizzled lance]

Yh bruh go get the adapter it'll change everything

Trust bro you got potential

[ornate scarab]

One day I’ll get it trust

Gotta focus on school

[spice gale]

Guys i might get my first tracking mount

While using my phone to image

[spice gale]

Still not 100% sure what to get so im opened to suggestions

[grizzled lance]

Icl i had insane results using an eq3 with basic motors but ik there other better options

I had jupiter centred using 8 mm eyepiece f5 for 30min straight

[spice gale]

Thats great

Was thinking about a neq5 and an aliexpress v5 onstep

[coral cedar]

It's a great setup!, what's your budget?

Onstep conversion is great

[spice gale]

Like 5-600€

neq5 are cheap for some reason, and the onstep already come from china so why buy it from european shops if it costs twice as much as from aliexpress

[coral cedar]

Niceeee

[coral cedar]

Yeah china always provide cheap price but also maintain same quality

[spice gale]

Perfect then

As soon as i get that job im buying it

[ornate scarab]

[fading bobcat]

@iron bear im wanting to do a milky way shot with my s23 ultra soon, would you be able to give me some tips?

Ill actually be likely tracking with my gti so itll be able to dither and maximize sub quality

[formal notch]

Moon 114/900 scope 10mm GSO 2x barlow and samsung A36

also jupe comming up

[blissful grotto]

was that a satellite in the left middle

[silk flint]

eeeeeeeeeeeee yup!

[blissful grotto]

letss goooo

my first

https://tenor.com/view/drepop-dre-pop-kfayta-gif-8597404435016214669

[spice gale]

Looks great

Just phone?

[ivory thunder]

yea

[spice gale]

Wow

[scenic glen]

I think it was so Slow to be a satallite

Im guessing a bird/plane

[blissful grotto]

it can't be a plane its too small

a bird maybe yes

[blissful grotto]

does this count as mineral moon ?

[ivory thunder]

if you think about it everything is mineral

ok not EVERYTHING because apparently organic stuff don't count which is bs bc what about stuff like honeystone

[spice gale]

Mmm not sure

This is how a mineral looks like with a phone

[spice gale]

So yours might be too

[blissful grotto]

what did you do to get this result

[spice gale]

Saturate it alot lol

[blissful grotto]

same that what i did lol

i'll take my first mineral moon lol

[silk flint]

went in a straight line

[scenic glen]

Im guessing bird then

[ivory thunder]

pink orb

smaller lme

[fading bobcat]

Alr whos nerdy enough here to dumb down milky way imaging with a phone

Cause imma do whatever I can to do better than this

[coral cedar]

Is this tracked?, it looks good already if the stars weren't trailing xD

[fading bobcat]

Its untracked

Was my phone sitting on a pile of bricks cause my tripod went missing

[coral cedar]

Ahhh I see..

What setting did you use?

[fading bobcat]

I will likely use my GTI next time I try to image it intentionally

[fading bobcat]

Like 30s at 1600 iso?

I want to put together a night dedicated to milky way imaging so I need some advice

[coral cedar]

30s is too much
Try lower the shutter speed

[fading bobcat]

Yeah for untracked it will be. Next time I plan to do milky way ill be tracked

[coral cedar]

If you don't have tripod I think you can capture it, but it's hard to frame it, I mostly doing my milky Way pic untracked

[fading bobcat]

Im gonna attach my phone to my gti somehow and use it to tracke slowly across

[coral cedar]

Umm I don't dither that much, I dither every 100 frames lol

[fading bobcat]

When im tracked ill need to dither more

[coral cedar]

Yep you need maybe max 10 frames

[fading bobcat]

Manually tracking is alot more forgiving since you basically dither every time you try to readjust

[coral cedar]

Yeahh true

What advice do you need actually?

Like capturing etc?

[fading bobcat]

Ill probably do it around there. Itll have to be pretty manual via synscan since I wont be bringing my pc with me

[fading bobcat]

Yeah yeah

[coral cedar]

What phone do you use?

[fading bobcat]

Like ive never dabbled in this line of AP

[fading bobcat]

Samsung S23 Ultra

It has a dedicated pro mode i can use

And I can actually set it to 50mp in raw mode

[coral cedar]

Expert raw would help, I don't know if it has pure raw/ processed raw
But I think I'll consider deepsky camera for capturing, it has unprocessed raw images I think with samsung s23 ultra

It has live view mode, so I can detect the stars and what to frame it also

[fading bobcat]

It should be unprocessed .raw

[fading bobcat]

How accurate can you focus?

@coral cedar maybe I can try the expert raw mode samsung has since there's a dedicated AP mode

[coral cedar]

I use the zoom feature in the DSC
It has focus slider also
So use them for find the best focus
And In case if you had already focused the stars and when you trying to capture and the first image looks unfocused, just try shoot it
Mine has a bug like that

[fading bobcat]

Itll basically take shorter exposures and stack them together I think?

[coral cedar]

Yeah the expert raw

[fading bobcat]

I actually used it a while back to get this of omega nebula

[coral cedar]

Looks very nice

[fading bobcat]

Im working on a new one with the current rig

[coral cedar]

Niceeeee I like the colorr

So yeah I think you need to try deep sky camera
I use it also for capturing
Since I'm untracked
I have to stack them in sequator sadly
Siril just sucks stacking widefield images I don't know why

[silk flint]

i will never see a swan in that

[fading bobcat]

How about an omega?

[silk flint]

i only know omega mpreg hazbin hotel ships

[fading bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/essp-galahad-slumber-party-larp-what-gif-24197250

[silk flint]

my gf threw mcdonalds sauce at me because angel dust didn’t show his feet

[fading bobcat]

Execution

[silk flint]

fuh naw

ts gold

[lean magnet]

brand new sentence

[ivory thunder]

first in my bloodline to read this sentence btw

[silk flint]

great topic for #1020657687291252797

[iron bear]

Sorry for the delay. College has been taking up a lot of my time
Sure!

[fading bobcat]

Oh youre fine! If you wanna dm me or just chat here its up to you!

[iron bear]

Download DeepSkyCamera and use raw through it… If I’m not mistaken, the S23U can do more than 60s inraw there.
In this shot, I dithered every 10 frames of 55s, and in total it was about 250 subs... I’d suggest not going much beyond 10 frames, because you might start getting a lot of noise if your polar alignment is perfect

To dither in this one, I just pause the DSC sequence, go to the onstep hand controller, and lightly tap the DEC button. Then I’d start the sequence again

It’s kind of tiring to do that all night, but the photo was worth it

[fading bobcat]

Whats the best way to reach focus with dsc?

[iron bear]

Its focus slider is very sensitive… What I usually do is point at bright stars, zoom in, and adjust until I find the right value. On my Mi 12 it’s 0.92 (in that MW shot I used 0.96 and it was already more blurred), so you really have to test
Do the focusing on a star or a distant light, lock in the value, then take a 10s test shot to check focus. If it looks good, you can shoot everything at that same value — the focus is unlikely to drift much during the night

[formal notch]

hii

Am i in focus? it was just 38 subs for testing whic software would be best for stacking apparently siril (manual) wins that by a huge margin (compared to sequator and astrosurface).I still need to check dss but i dont got any hopes with it cause of supre widefield img...

Dss and siril are comparable, idk which ones better. Any clue ?

[potent gorge]

siril by far. DSS isnt even close

[formal notch]

I see, siril does perform pretty good also wbat about focus? I am not fully sure

[potent gorge]

focus looks fine

[formal notch]

Great, has anyone attached their phone to telescope and used it as finder? I am goin to try it am not sure how good would that work. Finding objects is pretty hard especially when there arnt any bright starts from where one could star hop.

I have a 114/900 scope with eq3-2

[dusk crow]

I am Connect my secon phone with my Telescope and I use it with Stellaruim, I can find everything so easily

[formal notch]

Great can u show a pic of your phone attached to tele...

[dusk crow]

I am connect the phone on the adapter of the telescope tube holder

[formal notch]

Thats incredible.... thank you ill try tonight

[dusk crow]

But you fist have to align the telescope with Stellaruim view, the field of view will be off

[formal notch]

Yes, ill take care of it ...

[dusk crow]

I am doing with a red cross air
So I point at the sun or something else, with the telescope and I Markt my position and can move with right point

Now If I want to go to Venus I have to get Venus in the red Crossair

[formal notch]

I see, thats pretty good

[dusk crow]

ISS Passby the moon daylight

[silk flint]

so fake, everyone knows iss has a low earth orbit, it doesn’t go yhay close to the moon😂

[dusk crow]

Yes this image was processed with CGi 😂

[fading bobcat]

@errant tide would be proud

[errant tide]

Dang nice shot

[ornate scarab]

Thoughts?

[digital parrot]

looks unatural , pixelated

[ornate scarab]

Yea probably shouldn’t have put a filter on from snapseed

This is my second composition so.

[fading bobcat]

Moon is in front of the clouds