Here’s a picture I took of the Milky Way with my phone. My telescope rig is out of commission until I get my new (used) observatory up and running. I need to install the dome rotator, but I’m waiting on a part to arrive before I can finish.

This is all I’ve got for now. I took this last weekend with my Pixel phone in astrophotography mode.

If you want to see my older images, I have quite a few posted on Astrobin here: https://www.astrobin.com/users/BensAstroStuff/

  • Ben@beehaw.orgOP
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    1 year ago

    I think this was ~4 minutes worth of exposure time. I took this with my Pixel phone and Google’s astrophotography mode, which is part of the Night Sight setting. When the phone realizes it’s completely still, like on a tripod, and it’s looking at the sky, it gives you the option of taking pictures like this. It actually takes a lot of short exposures and stacks them. It’s a very automated process, so there’s not much tweaking to do. I do wish they gave the user more control.

    The setup for this picture was just my Pixel 6 Pro on a tripod pointing up. :)

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      1 year ago

      I’ve got a pixel 7 pro and I can immediately recognize pixel’s astrophotography online. There’s something about it that nothing else replicates

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        1 year ago

        I have a pixel 7 pro and never used this feature. I’m going to give it a shot tonight! Disappointed I didn’t try during peak meteor showers…

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          1 year ago

          I managed to get out during a clearing in the thunderstorms! Got to see some real nice ones but wasn’t able to catch any on camera unfortunately.

          Make sure you set your camera app to capture in raw as well.