iPhone Moon, 2nd January 2017

[Stu]

Best of a few quick iPhone shots this evening. Using a Nikon 16mm Microscope eyepiece converted to 1.25" which gave x46 and enough fov to fit the whole disk into.

Captured using ProCam 4, cropped and processed a little in PS Express.

[Fozzie]

Like that stu.. very good.. in fact.. a little too good... now I'm  starting to question why I just spent a good hour processing frames... 

Ta

Fozzie 

[Stu]

Thanks Fozzie. These iPhones are impressive, but there is still plenty more fine detail in your image if you zoom so not a waste of effort at all.

I'm just waiting for someone to write a stacking app......

[Scooot]

Excellent Stu  

[Fozzie]

Can't believe there isn't one... I'd use one for sure as I'm positive my phone is a lot better, quicker and smarter than the 3 year old computer in the corner of the room... poor thing doesn't half work when I give it frames to do..

Was this taken with the tak?.. 

I've said before in a previous thread, I can totally see the point in afocal shots like this, especially with a quality outcome like your getting here!

[nightfisher]

Stu, have you tried an ND filter when using the iphone?

[Stu]

9 minutes ago, nightfisher said:

Stu, have you tried an ND filter when using the iphone?

No I haven't Jules, do you think it would help?

[Stu]

6 hours ago, Fozzie said:

Can't believe there isn't one... I'd use one for sure as I'm positive my phone is a lot better, quicker and smarter than the 3 year old computer in the corner of the room... poor thing doesn't half work when I give it frames to do..

Was this taken with the tak?.. 

I've said before in a previous thread, I can totally see the point in afocal shots like this, especially with a quality outcome like your getting here!

Yes, taken with the Tak. Seems pretty good in terms of lack of CA and the level of sharpness for a single shot. This is still full colour.

I keep looking but have yet to find a suitable stacking app....

[nightfisher]

3 hours ago, Stu said:

No I haven't Jules, do you think it would help?

I would give it a try, I find smart phones tend to over expose the Luna surface, though your IPhone is doing a pretty good show on Luna, if you had an 06 or 09 in the eyepiece you might have less processing to do

 

[nightfisher]

We like to fiddle with images, so i had a quick tweak with your image, hope you dont mind

[nightfisher]

12 hours ago, Stu said:

No I haven't Jules, do you think it would help?

Here is another possible tip for you, some of the later Iphones camera can be controled by plugging the Apple headphones into the phone and a switch on the headphone will operate the shutter, saving mucking about with timer

[Stu]

3 hours ago, nightfisher said:

We like to fiddle with images, so i had a quick tweak with your image, hope you dont mind

Not at all Jules, thanks that looks sharper