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.orgOPEnglish
    7·
    10 months 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. :)

    • Nate@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      10 months 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

      • reric88🧩@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        10 months 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…