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At last friday my old dream came true, I took a picture about a comet ? Of course I used my gadgets as usually Huawei P10 smartphone with monochrome camera, 25mm plössl eyepiece, Celestron Nexstar 8 SE, alt-az mount. One frame with 30 sec exposition at ISO 3200. Comet 21P/ Giacobini-Zinner.

I just try to take pics with my phone, with okularprojection I don't need so many time to gather light. So its much easier with my alt-az mount. Of course I plan to buy an EQ mount too, but not now. Alt-az makes also lot of fun and good to show the objects for my friends too. Have a good sky!!

My last effort with my Huawei P10 smartphone, Celestron Nexstar 8 SE, 25mm plössl eyepiece, alt - az mount.

Hello! I think, it strongly depend on your phones possibility, what you can do with the telescope. I have good manual options on my Huawei P10. Must to know, its working good only with my 25mm eyepiece, because of the angle of the light, what comes out from the eyepiece. Try with more eyepiece or with barlow/focal reducer, maybe it helps.

At last night I tried to get some color. But my color camera is not so sensitive, like my monochrome. Anyway here are the pictures. I used a Baader moon and skyglow filter, because of the light pollution. The two birds are Swan and Eagle, on last picture is Lagoon.

Very nice picture! I try also tonight the M27, I just pray for clear sky. I had an effort with my 8" SCT at last sunday, with my Huawei P10 monochrome, but I want to see the colors of this object now.

Maybe because of my poor english I don't understand that. So, you take 2,5 second expositions only with hand, without stativ about the stars and they does not move?

You mean, to stack them somehow? I didn't try that.

The different of Huawei P10 color and monochrome camera. Ring - nebula, ISO 3200, 10 sec exposition, Celestron Nexstar 8", 25 mm eyepiece.

This is my first post when I afraid, my english is not enough to explane something, huh, so: I just tried to use the "light painting" - mode on my Huawei P10, but not to see that, how the stars make lines on the sky. I used this function with my Celestron 8" SCT on alt-az mount, with following. Its interesting, because it makes pictures in every 3 second and stack them in real time! Interesting to see that, how the stars comes up from the dark. I made a screen video about that, how its going, enjoy! Video 1:Alpha Lyrae, video 2: Ring nebula SVID_20180518_235812.mp4 SVID_20180519_000312.mp4

And alt-az mount... Yes, I heared that, its impossible. This is exactly the reason, why I do it ?

At last november I bought a G3 Orion deepsky cam, but in the winter I didnt use that. Because of the cold I dont like to take picturs with the cam + laptop combination. Anyway, I took a picture about the center on Orion nebula, the Trapesium. Its much better, as my smartphone pictures, but with the cam I have very small field, because of my 2000 mm focal lenght.

Hi All! Finally I tried to stack few pictures in DSS, only to get some experience about that. My object is Messier 4, I took 5 x 5sec pic in raw mode with my Huawei P10, 25 mm eyepiece (80x magnification) with my Celestron Nexstar 8" SCT. On my laptop it looks great, it shows the young blue and the older red stars. Interesting, but on my phone its only hard yellow, all the stars in the cluster.

Hi All! That was an unbelivable nice night here. My Celesteon Nexstar 8" SE with alt-az mount was ready to watch the sky. I took again pics, over 25mm eyepiece with my Huawei P10 smartphone, in monochrome mode. ISO 1000, 15 sec exposition pro object. Swan-nebula, Lagun-nebula, Trifid - nebula. There is no edit on the pictures, only cut and rotate with Lightroom app.

My phone can take picture in Raw too, but only in color mode. I took almost all my pictures in monochrome mode, because it has 20Mp. About the M104 I took pics in Raw, here is one of them, sure, I see the difference:

Thanks for help, but can you help me please, how is it going? I have alt-az mount, so if I take more pics, because of the rotation they are not the same field. I have DSS on my computer, but I don't know the best settings to stack these pictures.

Very cold outside o.O Not important, I have some new pic and I want to show the M51, how my Huawei P10 sees that over Nexstar 8" SE with 25mm eyepiece. ISO 3200, 30sec exposure in monochrome mode, cut and contrast with Lightroom mobile app.

Thanks the welcome! I have some problem, but I hope, I'll find a way to fix them. My smartphone works only with my 25mm eyepiece. In the others (15mm and 8—24mm baader hyperion zoom) there is a black field in the center of eyepiece. I tried to pull up and push down the phone, to change the focal lenght, but its not working :/ PS: Maybe because I live on the other side of Earth?

Thanks the tipp! Very friendly!

Hi all, sorry for my basic english! I found this topic at last may, when I started to interesting about astronomy. I bought later a Celestron nexstar 8" with alt-az mount and in this year I started to take some pics about the beautifull objects on the sky. Of course at first with my mobile phone, I bought a little bit expensive phone adapter to fix that on the okular,but it works very well. I want to share my first pics now, to show that, its not impossible to make pics with mobile phone, about dso-s too.