Saturn & Shadow on Jupiter with an iPhone 4

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Took a short video of each planet. Not a lot of frames, but just enough, it seems. 

Had trouble with white-balance, but oh well

 

Bonus pic: The Moon (:

[Pondus]

You took these images with an iphone?? 

Fantastic.

Rune

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Plus a telescope, of course 

I made a DIY iPhone adapter for the eyepieces, locked the exposure & focus while aiming at a streetlight (which messed up the white-balance, but made it possible not to get it over exposed).

Here's one of the 2 Jupiter videos I took: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8463154/IMG_8484.MOV

[PeterCPC]

Astonishing result with an I Phone - well done.

Peter

[catman161]

that is a great result for an iphone afocal shot! How do you lock the focus and exposure on an iphone then?

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To lock the exposure and focus you do a long tap until it locks down.

Although if I had an iPhone 6 running iOS8, then I'd have some true manual controls over the exposure and even shutter speed.

[Stu]

Impressive!!

There is an app called ProCam which I use. It gives good control of exposure and focus, worth a try but you seem to be doing pretty well anyway!!

[D4N]

Really great images for an iPhone4!

If you don't want to use a street light you can manually adjust the exposure once you have locked it by dragging the little sun up or down.

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[Stu]

Really great images for an iPhone4!

If you don't want to use a street light you can manually adjust the exposure once you have locked it by dragging the little sun up or down.

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Well I never knew that!!

Can you lock focus too?

[D4N]

Well I never knew that!!

Can you lock focus too?

Yes when you lock exposure it locks focus as well. Unfortunately the stock camera app does not let you manually adjust the focus on an iPhone 4 or 5.

I imagine the slo-motion video function on the iPhone 6 will be good for planetary, 240fps at 720P is better than most planetary cameras can achieve!

Might fill up the storage space fast after a few nights of imaging though

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[Pete Presland]

Pretty amazing what a camera phone can do these days, I am sure the makers would love to see these images. well done to you!

[Stu]

ProCam is pretty good as I said. I need to spend some more time with it, but it allows you to pick focus and exposure at different points in the image.

You then have manual shutter, ISO and focus control, pretty good really

[D4N]

ProCam is pretty good as I said. I need to spend some more time with it, but it allows you to pick focus and exposure at different points in the image.

You then have manual shutter, ISO and focus control, pretty good really

Looks nice, I have Camera+ that looks similar, problem is it is photo only. Does procam let you use video?

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[Stu]

Looks nice, I have Camera+ that looks similar, problem is it is photo only. Does procam let you use video?

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Yes it does. There is a slow motion mode too which gives 60 fps at 720p. Also a burst mode which continually takes full res images and let's you store in TIFF, not tried that though

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ProCam does look nice!

Hopefully some of those features work on an iPhone 4 (obviously the 60fps won't).

Oh how I miss my brother's T2i...

[sidney896]

Amazing shots with an iPhone! I'm going to give it a go....

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Thanks, Sidney.

If you're interested, here's a pic of the setup (it's from a different night, but same same) - http://i.imgur.com/gYQokpU.jpg

and here's a pic of the DIY iPhone adapter - http://i.imgur.com/wZ326m6.jpg (instructions taken from this blog post).