How much storage needed?

[Second Time Around]

Let me start by saying I've never taken an astrophotograph in my life.

However I like the idea of taking some lunar and solar photos.  The solar ones would be through my 72mm ED on a Solarquest tracking mount, the lunar ones through the 72mm ED or my 10 inch Dob, possibly on my equatorial platform.

What's prompted this is that I've just ordered a Google Pixel 8 Pro.  However I wonder if I've dropped a clanger by buying the model with just 128gB of storage.  The operating system and my apps already take up almost half of this.

I assume I'll be doing some lucky imaging with the video camera and then uploading the results to Google Photos. 

Would a little over 64gB of working storage be enough for the videos?  

[PeterStudz]

I’m not sure exactly how Google phones work but I assume it’s the similar to Apple. I have an iPhone with 128GB of storage. Photos and videos are stored in the Cloud. There are recent photos & videos completely stored on the phone, the rest are stored on the phone as thumbnails, only viewed and downloaded in full resolution/size when needed. In practice, and as long as you have an internet connection, you don’t really notice that they are in the Cloud.

All my videos are at full resolution. I also have a lot of RAW images. Currently I have 1300 videos and nearly 30,000 images. But as they are in the Cloud it’s doesn’t really have an impact on my iPhone storage which has had approximately 42GB free since I bought it 18 months ago.  Most of my local storage is taken up by apps, not images/video.

Basically I think you’ll be fine, but maybe someone with a similar phone can confirm.

Edited May 4 by PeterStudz

[Elp]

Singular photos take little to no space, a few Mb each. If you're going to do it properly via lucky imaging you'll take thousands of photos per session, in the case with your device record video then use Autostakkert to sift through the good frames, then stack them. In this case it wouldn't take much space as I don't believe you can record uncompressed video on a Pixel so little trouble.

To give you an idea, when I do planetary lucky imaging usually a 20 minute session taking high FPS RAW (uncompressed) images I record around 15-20Gb worth. You won't do anything near this recording video on a Pixel, even less (much much less) if taking singular images.

[Second Time Around]

That's a relief.  Many thanks indeed, Elp.  It looks as though I've saved myself £60.

It seems as though I couldn't change the order as it was a one time code from the EE shop for having bought a Pixel 6 from them.

Everyone 's selling the Pixel 8 Pro for a minimum of £799, including the EE shop.  The code gave me a huge £250 off so only £549 - even less than the non-pro model!

Thanks again.