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Smart Telescope
Re: Smart Telescope
Went about two and half hours drive out of the city last weekend. Absolutely freezing but lovely clear midwinter skies. One of the best views of the Milky Way and Great Emu I've ever had. Fortunately there was a tripod handy so setup my Pixel 9 Pro up and it went into an automatic astrophotography mode.
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Results are very pretty and it's incredibly impressive that the phone would do up to a 4min exposure without streaking, lots and lots of image processing going on. But after fiddling with settings it wouldn't produce an image anything like what I was seeing which was a little disappointing.
Although the glow of the milky way much much brighter than to the naked eye the contrast difference to the Southern Cross, Pointers and other bright stars is completely washed out. The cross is very distorted but that's just the ultrawide lens being fishy.
Imgur link so may need VPN
Results are very pretty and it's incredibly impressive that the phone would do up to a 4min exposure without streaking, lots and lots of image processing going on. But after fiddling with settings it wouldn't produce an image anything like what I was seeing which was a little disappointing.
Although the glow of the milky way much much brighter than to the naked eye the contrast difference to the Southern Cross, Pointers and other bright stars is completely washed out. The cross is very distorted but that's just the ultrawide lens being fishy.