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(Zoom into these photos to see Mars!)
Taken using my Hadley 3D printed telescope, with a crowd of friends invited to watch the occultation of mars by the moon! The phone I was taking photos on ran out of battery, so I hastily threw a friend’s iphone into the holder just in time to capture these.
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I finally used my new 8" telescope with a working mirror cell! Report:
Jupiter is nice and bright!
M42 is so much brighter than in my first telescope! It’s green and I can the bat wings and texture in the trapezium along with four stars!
There are so many stars everywhere!
High power reveals flaws. High power stars look like ovals. After some investigation, my secondary mirror wasn’t centered in the eyepiece view.
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Taken using my 4.5" telescope and phone! Both Mars and Jupiter fit into telescope view!
Very annoying observing session. Tried to take photos of the ring nebula but missed; planet conjunction was extremely slightly out of focus and I didn’t see until morning, and I looked for but still couldn’t see M33. Couldn’t see any detail on mars by eye either; that should change as we get closer to opposition.
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Since Orion was so high in the sky compared to my last photo I was curious if photos would look better… and they do!
This is one 1/2s phone pic, scaled to hell and back to bring out the “bat wings”: big dark edges that go from bottom left to top right. Now I know there’s many ways to make this better, such as motorizing or a bigger telescope or stacking multiple pictures - but for just one phone pic this isn’t that bad!
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A quick moon pic from my 3D printed telescope and phone cam. Some out of focus tree branches snuck into the top and traced some faint dark lines!
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This is the best photo I’ve made of the Andromeda galaxy!
It’s my second time stacking pictures to bring out faint details. You’re looking at 20 phone pics taken through my 3D printed telescope, each 1/2s exposure so the Earth didn’t rotate as much during the photo and smear the stars. I tried the program deepskystacker, but it failed to stack my pictures (maybe my phone camera’s pics had too much noise?
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BEHOLD, MY FIRST STACKED ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY IMAGE!
This combines 20 1/2sec exposures taken with my phone through my 3D printed 4.5" telescope. You can see stars down to magnitude 12!! This is so cool.
Turns out I didn’t see a galaxy in my photos because… I was looking at photos of a non-galaxy. This is the ring nebula, M57. Oops.
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I took many 1/2s exposures of the galaxy M33 but it wasn’t visible. I’m trying to combine them in python to see if together it can simulate a long exposure. It’s not going too well
(The lines are from stars moving as the earth rotates!)
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There’s a galaxy (named M33) in most of this picture
but it’s so faint I couldn’t see it by eye or by camera :(
The pifinder helped me find this place, so I took like 30 exposures in the hopes that I can stack them and see it
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Perseus double cluster
Equipment used: my 3D printed 4.5" telescope, custom mount, Pico pic-taker button, my phone
I have a raw version of this where some stars are noticeably blue or orange but it has more camera noise than this