Smart Telescope

[GG.]

So, this has to be witchcraft right? Or as someone said, a bunch of library images...

Not really. The key is just long exposures and stacking. Its a different thing entirely to visual stargazing.

That photo is OK but not all that sharp in reality.

Yes, I was wondering about the sharpness if that's just the limit of the hardware or can be tweaked in settings.

If you look at the edges of the moon you can see they're jagged (i.e. not soft focus) so it is more likely to be atmospheric diffraction than optical quality. Colder evenings will lessen the effect.

[GG.]

The moon pics aren’t stacked, they’re regular single photographs.

What length exposure - I presume they're still reasonably long exposures of a few seconds or more?

[Mito Man]

The moon pics aren’t stacked, they’re regular single photographs.

What length exposure - I presume they're still reasonably long exposures of a few seconds or more?

Not really, the exposures I’d guess are less than 0.5 second. It’s pretty instant but I don’t have the exact details as I leave it in auto and the picture file doesn’t say.

You can shoot in RAW and I think that’s how people get really amazing results but I’m not one to spend ages editing photos.

[GG.]

Not really, the exposures I’d guess are less than 0.5 second. It’s pretty instant but I don’t have the exact details as I leave it in auto and the picture file doesn’t say.

I'm surprised by that - usually the file metadata has all that info.

[Mito Man]

Weirdly, the stacked images do give an exposure - most recent nebula one is 9940 seconds!

994 10 second exposures I assume.

[Mito Man]

Erm, messed up the comet. I assumed it would be smart enough to do its own comet mode but it just turned into a very long exposure and…


I have the setting on to save the individual subframes which look fine but just noisy.

Now I’m wondering if there’s a simply way to stack maybe just 10 of these so it looks good

[dinny_g]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGd8jmcxS/

I want pics…

[Ascender]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGd8jmcxS/

I want pics…

Thanks for the heads-up. No pun intended.

[dinny_g]

If someone can take a genuine picture with these, of Jupiter, with moons visible, I'm buying one ...

[duncs500]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGd8jmcxS/

I want pics…

Go on @Mito Man @Ascender, give it your best shot! I want to see moons!

[Mito Man]

I'll have a go if the weather is clear. I haven't tried planets with it though as I know it's magnification is far too small so it may just be a smudgy dot and the moons will be pin head sized if visible. Apparently there is a way to take a video and process/stack it in the app which will resolve the details better though.

I have a bigger old fashioned refractor telescope which is good for planetary imaging but the cost of the kit get it to take photos is prohibitively expensive which is why I bought the smart telescope.

[dinny_g]

How come it can capture the Pillars of Creation but not Jupiter ??

[Mito Man]

Because those deep space objects are massive, many light years in size but relatively close as all the nebulas and emissions which we can observe from Earth are within the Milky Way.

After that the next thing we see are entire galaxies.

[dinny_g]

So you're saying...

[Mito Man]

Exactly

[dinny_g]

[Ascender]

Brilliant