The big dipper?

[kelly324]

Hi!

I’m still very much new to this hobby and have been experimenting taking photos with my phone. Last night was pretty cloudless compared to how it’s been recently, so i decided to try and take some images.

Did i capture the big dipper to the right of this picture, or did i manage to capture anything else?

I tried to use apps like skyview etc but i couldn’t get my wifi to work - so i’m sorry for asking a lot of questions 

Edited March 8, 2023 by kelly324

[Simon Pepper]

Hi Kelly 

Yep you nailed it well done! 

[Moonshed]

You’re off to a good start Kelly, you even captured Polaris towards the far left of the image.  I wouldn’t have thought you would get anything with those clouds. Well done.

[bosun21]

Yes you also grabbed the star Kochab into the bargain. Well done.

[Mr Spock]

Great start. I've taken the liberty of naming everything for you. Hope you don't mind.

[Ratlet]

Cracking.  Massively underated part of the hobby is constellation spotting.  Great when you work out where everything is and can say "yup, that's caseopia" , especially when it's a faint one like Cancer.

[Moonshed]

1 hour ago, Mr Spock said:

Great start. I've taken the liberty of naming everything for you. Hope you don't mind.

Name dropper! 😂

[Elp]

You set out to do what you wanted. In future if the stars are clearly round you can upload an image to astrometry to find out what you've captured:

https://nova.astrometry.net/upload