Only got out my small scope and tried phone pics because it was cloudy for a good part of the night. There just happened to be a playing flying by the moon when I was taking pics, thank god for apple’s live photos
Bonus video
Meade ETX-125 (deforked and put on manual alt-ax tripod)
Pentax XL 28mm
iPhone SE3
6 Comments
tyler@programming.dev · 4 pts · 16d
How the fuck did you get it to be so stable. Even with my tripod and a 600mm lens I had to use a ten second timer to get anything without bluriness.
lefty7283@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16d
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I just braced my phone against the eyepiece with my hands. I think also the scope is nowhere near the weight limit for the tripod so it’s just pretty sturdy naturally
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 16d
You could try one of these remote triggers, if the shaking from your hand is the problem. But for long exposure times you'd need a tracking telescope mount 🤑
tyler@programming.dev · 2 pts · 16d
It was only a 1/3s exposure, and it was the shaking from my hand, but I even set it to a 20s timer with exposure delay at like 3s and it still was blurry. Tried with 1/8s exposure and high ISO as well. This was the best photo I could get.
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 12d
Maybe OP is in a place where the atmosphere is calmer
tyler@programming.dev · 2 pts · 12d
Hmm good point. I’m at 5k feet elevation though, but yeah maybe the atmosphere was bad at the time.