SGL 2022 Challenge 7 - Mobile Phone Imaging

[Astro_Dad]

The Milky Way and The Summer Triangle

iPhone 12 Pro night mode, hand held. 

Edited July 31, 2022 by Astro_Dad

[JokubasJar]

Venus during the day

August 2nd, 15:02 GMT+3

254mm f/4.7 manual dobsonian

iPhone 12 Pro Max telephoto camera

5mm Baader eyepiece projection

3 videos stabilized and combined in PIPP, stacked in AutoStakkert 3, sharpened and edited in Registax 6, final touches in BeFunky editor, I got the simulated model in the top right from WinJupos.

Incredibly difficult to find since I don't have any kind of go-to, in the finder scope it looks like a very very small speck of light. Also was a little scared because Venus is pretty close to the Sun now.

[Dave scutt]

Samsung a52 .

Hand held 10 seconds .

Bortle 2-3 

[Dave scutt]

12"skywatcher dob. 

ES 82  18mm.

Samsung a52  single shot

[PeterStudz]

Skywatcher Skyliner 200p, BST StarGuider 12mm, iPhone 12 single shot taken at 3:50am on July 17th, handheld at the eyepiece using burst mode, simple basic editing in the stock camera app. 

[PeterStudz]

Saint-Clair beach Southern France, Bortle 5, 11pm, 29th July 2022. iPhone 12 on tripod, single 30sec shot with standard camera app, edited on the phone using Lightroom.

[scotty1]

Taken a couple of miles south of town August 6th 2am. Pixel 4a in astro mode on SLIK mini pro DQ tripod with  BH100 head.

Processed in phone with Snapseed 

 

Edited August 6, 2022 by scotty1

[Dave scutt]

First attempt of Saturn. 

12"skywatcher dob.

ES82 11mm   ES 2x focal extender. 

Samsung a52 single shot in Pro mode, hand held at ep

Edited August 8, 2022 by Dave scutt

[malgpz900]

On 20/07/2022 at 00:11, CruzanGazer said:

I have an iphone 13 Pro and am not able to get a single still or video.  8” dobsonian and 26mm EP.  Can anyone offer tips or tricks.

Might be better off starting your own post in the relevant section.

[Dave scutt]

Jupiter. 

12"skywatcher dob. 

Es82  11mm    ES x2 focal extender. 

Samsung a52    held at ep

[scotty1]

August 7th 03.30am pixel 4a on SLIK mini DQ tripod. Processed in phone with Snapseed. 

 

[Dave scutt]

M13.

12"skywatcher dob. 

ES82  8.8mm.

Samsung a52  hand held for 2 seconds. 

[Dave scutt]

M57. 

12"skywatcher dob no tracking.

ES82 11MM. 

Samsung a52 hand held for 2 seconds 

Edited August 11, 2022 by Dave scutt

[DaveS]

Not going to win any prizes, but here goes.

Milky way through Cygnus down to the great rift.

One PLus 8 using Deep Sky Camera beta. 28 x 15 sec subs at ISO 800. Stack and post in AstroArt 8. There was a huge gradient from the Devil's Lightbulb, I may try to get some 30 sec subs when it gets out of the way.

[Paul M]

While breaking down my big old telescope at dawn this morning I had the pleasure of a spectacular Noctilucent Cloud display. I grabbed just one shot, hand held, with my Samsung Galaxy S20.

Looks like a hybrid contrail/NC formation but I'm sure NC's are at much higher altitude than contrails. Not sure if it was perspective or the formation really was fan shaped. I've never seen NC's radiate skyward like that before.

On closer inspection you can see Venus just to the left of the building bottom centerish. Castor and Pollux are above pointing to Venus.

[Penumbrella]

Jupiter's moons. 

Skywatcher 130pds 

Celestron xcel lx 5mm 

Pixel 5a, single shot edited on phone 

[Penumbrella]

M15

Skywatcher 130pds 

Altair Astro ultraflat 15mm

Pixel 5a in 'astrophotography mode' 

Edited on phone 

[JokubasJar]

Milkyway Core

Lithuania, outside of Kaunas.

Bortle 2

August 5th 01:07 GMT+3

iPhone 12 Pro Max main camera on a tripod

Native camera app, 30 second exposure, (the camera app has a night-mode which allows for long exposures).

Edited in Snapseed.

Best one yet, shooting in raw gave me more to play with in Snapseed. The sky was also darker this time.

[JokubasJar]

Daylight southern Moon closeup

August 3rd, 17:50 GMT+3

254mm f/4.7 manual dobsonian

iPhone 12 Pro Max telephoto camera

5mm Baader eyepiece projection

1 video stabilised in PIPP, stacked in AutoStakkert 3, sharpened and edited in Registax 6.

Something I’ve realised is stacking iPhone videos in AutoStakkert never works out on the first try. Eyepiece vignetting was throwing off the alignment and creating some very strange and blocky artifacts so I had to do some precise cropping, had to run it through PIPP twice. Worked out in the end.

[Pete Presland]

Very simple Mobile phone capture of the Moon rising over Portland Bill Harbour. Looked beautiful rising through the "belt of Venus". Wish i had brought my ED80 or 300m lens for a close view.

Captured with a Samsung S9 mobile phone

[JokubasJar]

Milky Way vertical shot

Lithuania, Nida

Bortle 3

August 18th 00:27 GMT+3

iPhone 12 Pro Max main camera

10 30-sec subs taken in native camera app

Stacked in Sequator

Editing and final touches in Gimp

Finally gave stacking a try and the results were pretty impressive. This is my best image yet. This was taken on an observation tower I climbed last night.

Edited August 18, 2022 by JokubasJar

[Penumbrella]

M31 - Andromeda galaxy 

Bortle 4 skies 

Skywatcher 130pds 

Altair Astro ultraflat 30mm

Pixel 5a in 'astrophotography mode' 

Edited on phone 

 

[Penumbrella]

M13 - Great Hercules cluster 

 

Bortle 4 skies 

 

Skywatcher 130pds 

 

Altair Astro ultraflat 15mm

 

Pixel 5a in 'astrophotography mode' 

 

Edited on phone 

[scotty1]

01.20 on the 19th of August a bright Persied tracked from the Cygnus area. 

I had gone out to check for Aurora, and took a few shots with my phone just before heading home as it was clouding up.

A lucky capture while taking a few shots in astro mode, i used my pixel 4a on a mini tripod.

[scotty1]

On the way home from photographing the Persieds on August 13th, pockets of  shallow mist forming in the fields with Venus rising. 

Pixel 4a on tripod, on the car roof with nightsight setting. Edited on pixel 4a with the inbuilt standard photo editor.

 

 

On the same morning In the west on the other side of the road, the moon was setting, also Jupiter is upper left. 

Pixel 4a in nightsight setting on Slik mini tripod

Edited August 21, 2022 by scotty1