My photo of the Orion Nebula

[KiannJames]

I know its bad but heres my first photo of the Orion Nebula, i used a Skywatcher Skyliner 150P Dobsonian with a 4 second exposure on ISO 800 taken under severe light pollution with my phone and a UHC filter. Do any of you guys think its good?

[tooth_dr]

I think it’s fantastic! The colour you have picked up is super. And you took this on your phone using a Dob! ? 

[pipnina]

Definitely not a bad first photo. Mine was a lot worse!

You might get some good results with double stars if you have eyepieces with enough magnification if you want some extra target ideas.

[TheMan]

That's a fair amount of Nebulosity for a 4 sec exposure. Nicely done. 

[upahill]

Great shot, now you are hooked! ?

 

[Sunshine]

I didn't think that was possible with a phone.

[SIDO]

Nice one, good sensor for a phone, I only get about half that in 8sec using a 200mm f6 dob ?

[Stu]

Great image Kiann. Some really nice colour coming through there. Which phone do you have? The more modern sensors are much lower noise and more sensitive, yours looks good!

We have a smartphone imaging section now so feel free to have a look in there, plenty of others doing similar things so it's good to share experiences.

[teoria_del_big_bang]

I remember the joy I got from my first image and you should be proud of that.

My first image with smartphone and Dob was of the moon. I never managed to get anything decent of Orion on phone. I think that looks great ? 

You will be hooked now.

Steve

 

[KiannJames]

It was took with an s7.

[KiannJames]

Could it possibly be the UHC making the colour good?

[Ouroboros]

It's always good to experiment.  It shows what's possible, what the problems are and may suggest ways of doing it better. The main problem with your image is star trailing. I don't know whether it's possible with your phone to take a series of shorter exposures for which star trailing is less apparent.  You'll then need some kind of photo app to combine them (even only manually) into a single image.