Smartphone Astrophotography

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I attended a very informative webinar on Tuesday as part of the Bowland Dark Skies Festival (it's been cloudy and wet all week!) and thought I'd pop a couple of resources on here as I recall some years back we had a thread about astrophotogrpahy with regular cameras. It seems that it's much easier to do with modern smartphones now.

You will need a couple of relatively inexpensive things, but the results are worth it.

 

Firstly download this guide (for much more info) - https://science.nasa.gov/learn/heat/resource/a-guide-to-smartphone-astrophotography/

 

Then watch this for a quick overview of how easy it is:

 

 

I'll have to invest in a phone tripod mount and possibly a remote clicker then get myself somewhere dark when the cloude finally goes away!

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Have you heard about some smartphones that fake details of sky shots? E.G. If you take a picture of the Moon, it actually swaps in a stored JPG of the moon? Someone took a photo at night with LED bowl street lamps and noticed when he uploaded it to facebook, each of the streetlamps were miniature Moons!