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.
A perspective photo that I really like. The moon and the bus. This is straight out of my phone - no telescope or binoculars, and no editing.
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.
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.
From my experience people have a lot of phones at home that they do not use, and are perfectly fine. Ask around instead of buying. Speaking of that I did the same and a friend gave me his old Pixel 4A. I installed CalyxOS OS on it with Android 14. Works like a charm. Amazing camera, I am doing astrophotography with it (see my profile). You can buy this phone second hand for about 100 Euros/Dollars, almost new.
I took this photo of the Orion Nebula last night. With the phone and my telescope. No editing except lowering the gamma, but colors and all from Pixel 4A. Highly recommend. It even has the useful headphone jack :D - and is a smaller size not tablet-size like most phones nowadays.
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!
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.
Here's a photo I just took with my telescope and my phone:
It is difficult to find the right spot for these kind of photos and tomorrow I'll try to do it better. And I will also record a video (I have one but I will share it when I will do it better) :)
The Moon on the Rock, taken tonight with 2 different exposures (pixel 4a):
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!
This is what I have to put up with with my driving exam in Spain, in English:
The correct answer is A....even tho it is the same exact meaning as B....
And then you figure this out:
Because the correct answer is C....
Unbelievable. Such a mockery. I will make a blog post about my experience and I will create interactive quizzes for anyone to play with, that have the exact questions and answers from the Spanish Government in English. So you understand the level of retardation.
Anyway, I will announce the TROMcast Live date/hour later on tonight. A lot of things to talk about :).
Yah here:
And actually they are not comfortable to look through them since the eyepieces are so tiny...
But that makes them perfect to attack to the phone. As you can see they are quite small. They feel like toy binoculars. My family found them when cleaning a house basically.
Photo of the night sky taken with my phone from within a castle on top of a mountain :)
Ok here's one more with the binoculars :D because I love these. I was standing here taking this photo with my Pixel 4a phone:
Then I added the binoculars to my phone and pointed here:
And I got this:
True, I enhanced the colors, contrast, etc., but with GThumb in less than a minute. Nothing crazy.
Here are more:
Mind you, this is a phone that was around 350$ new in 2020 that was given to me for free. Plus binoculars that we literally found somewhere. :) Nothing pro, yet the photos look super cool.
A photo I took from a castle on the top of a mountain at night. Some stars and the town I live in :)
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:
For those who have a driving license, what would you answer to this ridiculous question?
Mind you this is an official question in Spain, for their English test.
Here's a photo I just took 2 hours ago of the moon with Pixel 4a and some cheap binoculars:
I love this photo because it also showcases what the stages of the Moon are. Just a part of the Moon is illuminated by the Sun from our perspective, but in fact the entire Moon is visible if you are to look closely.
So amazing!
I will try to take more such photos of the moon in perspective with buildings or other "objects". It looks so cool!