Milky way

[Dave scutt]

Nice clear night with the milky way stretching across the sky, you could  just about see Andromeda with your eyes.

Google pixel 6 pro ,  edited on Snapseed.

[peanutcol]

Amazing. Whereabouts was this taken?

[GasGiant]

Nice. What were your exposure times?  I must try some simple pics with my phone.

[Dave scutt]

4 hours ago, peanutcol said:

Amazing. Whereabouts was this taken?

I live in Co Roscommon, west of Ireland 

[Dave scutt]

1 hour ago, GasGiant said:

Nice. What were your exposure times?  I must try some simple pics with my phone.

The Google pixel takes a 4 minute exposure and stacks it for you.

[Richard]

1 hour ago, GasGiant said:

Nice. What were your exposure times?  I must try some simple pics with my phone.

Think most phones will do this to an extent, but maybe not this well. My iPhone 13 - quite old now! - will take 10sec exposures and stack them. I’ve taken some ad hoc shots of e.g. the Vela region once I realised this. I found out by ‘accident’, I thought it was just making a long exposure, was surprised by the quality, and Googled it.

There’s a blurry Milky Way visible in the very basic image of Sco/Sgr attached, taken from 35ºN. It was a short exposure (2s?) because of nearby street lights. It can pick out nebulosity around M45, Merope in particular, from my Bortle 6 location.