iPhone astrophotography tonight. Moon, Jupiter and its moons, Saturn and Albireo. https://octodon.social/media/IEP8Qf0SxTnPqP1gON0 https://octodon.social/media/wI6sE0l5xg7N-7CgzJ8 https://octodon.social/media/PB2WRBhD5ssNpWxyHUE https://octodon.social/media/HpiSWkEwcJ14qqz-2vM
I took my camera out last night to grab a couple of pictures as well. I'll upload a couple later. No telescope, just my longest lens at the moment, but it's enough to resolve Jupiter as a fuzzy disk....
@ElectricMink the reality of our modern age is that even inexpensive camera optics are better than professional telescopes of even 175-200 years ago; and they discovered a lot with those optics.
I'm also going to try setting a higher ISO and using a faster shutter. I used 1/320, ISO 100, with my 75-300mm kit lens (zoomed to the max, of course).
@ElectricMink ISO 400-800 is usually not bad for noise, at least on my now ancient DSLR.
Here's the best I got last night.
https://octodon.social/media/5yMSCDwf2oVRjjdaFL0
I'll try the higher ISO and quicker shutter next clear night I get. If I step it up to ISO 400, I'd pop my shutter speed up to 1/1250 to get nearly the same exposure?
@ElectricMink looks like two stops each way so should be. As long as you're not too close to the horizon the cells that cause seeing are ~0.1s across so if you keep your shutter speed <1/10 you should be good.
