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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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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 found this with the help of an amateur with a huge telescope and laser pointer so bright it looked like a line pointing into the sky. Looked like a dim circular smudge to the eye. Picture taken with the 25mm eyepiece, so I bet I could get an even better picture through the more zoomed in 6mm
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Reminder to North and South Americans, there’s an eclipse today! https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa?iso=20231014 DON’T LOOK AT THE SUN WITHOUT SPECIAL ECLIPSE GLASSES, EVEN DURING A PARTIAL ECLIPSE! If you don’t have one, take a piece of paper, punch a hole in it, and look at the shadow. Trees or colanders with many holes will make very cool shadows!
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I got to see it with my own eyes for the first time!! It looked like a gray oval-ish but slightly pointy smudge. But it’s a cool smudge in the sky!!
This is a phone pic with a 2s exposure and ISO cranked up to it’s max, 3200. The rainbow snow is random noise from my sensor magnified by turning the sensitivity up very high. You can even see M32 as a slightly fuzzy star almost directly above Andromeda’s core!
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Everything was very blurry today and I kept wondering why focusing didn’t seem to fix it before realizing it was cloudy.
My custom Pico Bluetooth picture taking button worked great though!
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I got the Andromeda galaxy!!!
Aiming the telescope was a nightmare. “I’ll use a star app to aim!” I thought. I tried downloading Stellarium, it complained about a Google Play error. I downloaded SkEye, and it had some weird gyro issues because it expected the phone to be pointing in the same direction as the telescope, but I use my phone camera to take pics so it was mounted sideways looking at the telescope’s eyepiece.
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