Taken with Pixel phone over 4:00 minutes in Astro mode. RAW further edited in Snapseed.
Wtf, people are doing astro photography with a phone now? I had no idea it is possible...
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Well I suppose this is a bit of a misstatement. Google pixel phones have for the last couple of iterations had a feature called astrophotography mode.
I'm not versed enough to describe all the technicalities, Pat. It basically uses the digital camera sensor and the optical lenses and its own "smart" software to do all the leg work that you could otherwise do just by long exposure, photography, photo stacking, and rendering.
When you point the phone at the sky it goes into night mode, which is just long exposure photography. Sensor detects that you're looking at stars, and you are holding the phone still, such as by placing it on a table upside down or on a tripod, it will detect that you're trying to photograph the Stars, flip to astrophotography mode, and then take a 4-minute exposure, which I think also may make use of GPS and the electromagnetic field sensor to help you capture the image of the Stars.
I have found that it works well for a wide shot of a comment and for wide field shots of the night sky.
It absolutely cannot do deep sky photography without an external lens. It's good for the comets, Space station passes, and that sort of thing.
There are at least two products made for doing astrophotography with a cell phone. One connects to the camera unit remotely, and it's really just an external camera, possibly with some built-in rendering software. Software.
The other one is a cradle for your smartphone, and essentially the cradle has a telephoto lens built into it. I haven't tried those. I have a smart scope that is controlled by my phone, but all hardware and software image processing is inside the telescope versus using my phone's processor to stack and render images.
Well I suppose this is a bit of a misstatement.
you said the photo is from a phone and it is from the phone, i don't see any misstatement 😆
and to clarify that wasn't meant as an attack or anything, i am honestly surprised how good the photo is, knowing it is from the phone. of course the quality can't compete with dedicated lens on a camera, but the exposure is really nice.
Knew exactly how you meant. Thanks for the compliments.
Man, I remember the day they released astrophotography mode via a beta build. I was way up north in the late fall with clear night skies just marveling at the stars. I happened to see a reddit post about the camera software update and spent the night holding my phone up in the air trying to get enough signal trying to download the installer. I finally got it and he next night it was cloudy, but the next night...
