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Took this photo 20 minutes ago - my best photo of the Sun!

Taken with Celestron SLT 130 + Pixel 4A

See my gallery here - tiotrom.com/photos/

#sun #sunspots #astrophotography #pixel4a #telescope

in reply to Tio

Amazing if you remember how much trouble it has cost to get this kind of foto's in the fisrt place.


I have added more photos to my gallery :) tiotrom.com/photos/

Here are a few of them:

While kayaking I took this photo. I love how the rock looks like floating on the water.

Holding a 20 million years old spider:

This is the wonderful Moon and the stars:

And the wonderful Sun:

All of the photos are made with a Pixel 4a. And very little tweaks.

#photography #nature #sun #moon #sky #astrophotography #amber #europe



Crazy sunspots....took this picture 10 minutes ago:

Tweaked a bit the colors and sharpness. Taken with Pixel 4a and my telescope.

The sun is nuts!

#sun #sunspot #nature #astrophotography

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Tio
OH WOW this photo is so amazing I can't believe it's real. Prob needed multiple exposures.... More info here I see apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210921.ht…


The Moon and Jupiter tonight:

The image is a composite - I took separate photos for each with the telescope and the phone. The original photo looks something like this through the binoculars:

But you can zoom into the first photo and you can even see Jupiter's moons :)

#astrophotography #nature #moon #jupiter #nightsky #photography #pixel4a



This photo looks fake, but it is not, and it is taken with a mobile phone. Plus I did no editing:


These are the islands where I live, and the wonderful night sky. You can see the Pleiades in the left top side, and that bright one top center is Jupiter:

4 minutes exposure with Pixel 4A.

#nightsky #astrophotography #nature #islands #photos



This is the best photo I could take of Saturn...

Only edited a bit the contrast/luminosity. Taken with Pixel 4A and Celestron 130 SLT. I know that people usually take such photos from lots of frames and they stack them together with specialized software, plus do a lot of editing after. Yeah their results are many times better, but for one right now I do not feel like spending hours to edit/create such a photo, and second when is the editing too fake? Too much? If you use special programs to reconstruct pixels on a low quality photo....then is almost like adding bits that are not even there....idk...

At least this sort of photo is one that I enjoy taking by looking at Saturn through my phone's camera live, and taking a brief photo. Then edited it for less than a minute.

#astrophotography #pixel4a #telescope #saturn

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in reply to Tio

Feel good about the photo. Saturn is a tough target. It's actually pretty dim compared to Jupiter and Mars, and Venus of course.
in reply to Stargeezer Smith

Yup true! It was also lower on the horizon and even half moon. So bad conditions.


This is Jupiter and 4 of its moons at daytime :)

I find it fascinating to see Jupiter when it is daytime. A bit bizarre. And beautiful.

#astrophotography #pixel4a #telescope #jupiter

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The Orion Nebula with a mobile-freaking-phone:


Pixel 4A + Celestron SLT 130, 10mm eyepiece.

My telescope was in auto-tracking mode and the exposure time was 4 minutes with the default Pixel Camera app.

I am astonished by this photo! You can see freaking color! COLOR! I only tuned down the gamma a bit but that's all of the editing I've done. Here is another unedited photo with a 20mm eyepiece:

I was soooo surprised to see this coming out of the phone :D - damn so fucking cool! 1.3 thousand light years away, stars forming.....so beautiful....so mindblowing!

#astrophotography #deepsky #orion #pixel4a #telescope

in reply to Tio

This is so cool! 😍

So you attach your phone to the eyepiece of your telescope, right? Also, could you see this nebula with your naked eyes or did you had to use the 4 minute exposure photography to see it clearly?

in reply to Rokosun

Yes. I will do a video about these but basically yes I have a special adapter that connects my phone to the eyepiece of the telescope. Interestingly with the night mode for my phone (the default pixel camera app) you can see this nebula almost like you see it with your naked eye. But ofc not that sharp and clear. So you can see it some, but it is ofc colorless if you look directly at it. And it is nowhere near close to what you see in this photo I took. That's why I love to take these photos because they reveal the invisible.

Also the light pollution makes a massive difference when it comes to seeing such faint objects. This is an interesting article with illustrations about what you can see and how through different telescopes and conditions - deepskywatch.com/Articles/what…



A better shot of the Moon tonight ;)

Again this is taken with a phone, Pixel 4a, through a telescope.

I have a cool video too but I will share it another day.

None of these photos are edited. Straight out of the phone.

#astrophotography #moon #nature #photos





Want to see a cool video of the moon from tonight and raw reactions to this beautiful beast? :) Here videos.trom.tf/w/iArtM7RGsCaXV…

And here are some photos:



#astrophotography #moon #nature #photos


Raw video of the Moon through Celestron SLT 130 and Pixel 4A


This is the raw video we took through my phone. And our genuine reactions. We were mesmerized by how crisp the Moon was. And this was not the best night to see it since it was a lot of humidity in the air. Enjoy!


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Is that two starlink satellites dead center? Nice shot even if it is.
in reply to Mike J👹🐀 🤘🏻

Hard to say if starlink, but yes probably satellites. And the bright one is Jupiter in the center
in reply to Mike J👹🐀 🤘🏻

Every time I see a starry sky polluted like that, I assume it's the fault of *that* person.
in reply to Mike J👹🐀 🤘🏻

yah....I hate it too. Anyone who has any interest in the night sky hates "that" guy.


Here's Jupiter with 4 Moons through Celestron 130 SLT and Pixel 4a taken 4 hours ago:

And closeup:

And another sample without the moons:

#Astrophotography #photos #nature #photography