A Guide to Smartphone Astrophotography [pdf]

Re:A Guide to Smartphone Astrophotography [pdf] by mgraczyk on Friday June 24, 2022 @06:10PM (#31870099)

Plug for my team at Google. One of the cool things in the Pixel camera is an "astrophotography mode", which takes far more pictures than normal with longer exposures.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/11/astrophotography-with-nigh...

You can try it out on any recent Pixel device by holding the phone very still (probably need to mount it) when it's dark. You can get incredible images with no additional effort, just pointing it up at the sky.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A Guide to Smartphone Astrophotography [pdf] by shreyshnaccount on Friday June 24, 2022 @07:17PM (#31870732)

Or get not so good but still pretty decent and cool photos by downloading a port of the gcam app on another android phone. Like i did to get pics of the moon, Mars, jupiter and venus today!

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A Guide to Smartphone Astrophotography [pdf] by mgraczyk on Friday June 24, 2022 @07:32PM (#31870839)

Would you mind linking to the port?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A Guide to Smartphone Astrophotography [pdf] by shreyshnaccount on Saturday June 25, 2022 @03:16AM (#31873244)

I can't.. I've tried dozens of them so I've lost track which one actually worked

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A Guide to Smartphone Astrophotography [pdf] by Alakbar on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:56PM (#31871423)

https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A Guide to Smartphone Astrophotography [pdf] by Deletionk on Saturday June 25, 2022 @10:03AM (#31875380)

I'm curious if those algorithm would be usable with existing DSLRs.

But I think that the app might do more than just taking a few pictures and calculating stuff on it after.

Is there any CMOS magic it does like reading the chip in a way that it's not the same of taking a few pictures?

[ Parent | on HN ]