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iPhone 14 Pro Max Milky Way with iPhone 14 PM
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The aurora is infact really cool to watch, especially if it’s strong. The green sky dance is quite the experience.
The Pleades you say, that nice
Really looking forward to try the 14 PM in a week or so, it is aurora season too.
The auroras in the photos wasn’t that strong, just looks strong because of the 30s exposure.
The trail beneath The Pleades, starlink Or “just” a shooting star?
btw, how do you shoot the moon a night? For me it just gets overexposed and a white blob.
The Pleades you say, that nice
Really looking forward to try the 14 PM in a week or so, it is aurora season too.
The auroras in the photos wasn’t that strong, just looks strong because of the 30s exposure.
The trail beneath The Pleades, starlink Or “just” a shooting star?
btw, how do you shoot the moon a night? For me it just gets overexposed and a white blob.
Are you getting the issue with Lightroom Mobile that imported ProRaw photos are super dark? Ie almost can't see them in the preview. Cheers. Stunning photos also.
Yes I am. That is because the Lightroom app needs to be updated to have the iPhone 14 profile added. I’m sure they will be releasing an update soon. Same thing happened when the iPhone 13 Pro came out, files were dark. I have a lot of presets purchased and made so when I edit, I’ll apply one and if it is still dark, I’ll press the “auto” button and it brings it back to light. I always touch the optics button to have the app correct for any lens distortion, but it doesn’t work yet. Just give it time, I’m hoping for an update soon. And thanks for the compliment…
Awesome pictures, I know you must be excited for the new iPhone, I’m still loving mine and the 48mp resolution with day shots. Too bad the 48mp isn’t available with night mode, still 12mp, but very high quality 12mp!The aurora is infact really cool to watch, especially if it’s strong. The green sky dance is quite the experience.
The Pleades you say, that nice
Really looking forward to try the 14 PM in a week or so, it is aurora season too.
The auroras in the photos wasn’t that strong, just looks strong because of the 30s exposure.
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The trail beneath The Pleades, starlink Or “just” a shooting star?
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btw, how do you shoot the moon a night? For me it just gets overexposed and a white blob.
As for shooting the moon, during night mode exposures it’s going to be a bright blob. To see the moon detail, a very fast shutter speed is needed, but that’s all you will see, only a properly exposed moon and black sky. Catching the moon at moonrise just after sunset is they best way as the sky and moon look to be the same brightness.
Yes I think that is a shooting star, a small one. You can tell as it is dim on both ends and brighter in the middle. Is your iPhone coming this week?
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Oh, I didn’t realize that the 48mp isn’t available for night mode. It uses the 48mp camera but bins down to 12 when in night mode?
I have the 14pm, but I live in a city and won’t go to the countryside for a week. Can’t shoot in the city, to much noise pollution.
Ok, I understand that…. At first I missed the moon question you asked, refresh the page, I gave you an answer.
Fantastic photos as per usual!
We are off to the Highlands later this week and I am hoping for some clear night skies in and between the usual dreich Northern weather.
The tripod is going along…
So if I understand correctly, the Skywatcher you have allows the camera to move along with the earth's rotation?
Nothing to do with magnification etc?
The detail you obtained is solely due to Night Mode with a 30" exposure?
(Complete beginner here, of course.)
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And will likely get here after our sun/star has killed all life on the planet, if there still is any by then. That and the black hole 'in our neighborhood' in the enter of the galaxy freaks people out, some needing hospitalization (no kidding) but neither are a danger to us. The sun is more of a danger and look how little power we would have to save ourselves. An asteroid, space war, or rain of space junk is a far more pressing problem.
But great shots!! Wow!! I was surprised I could get a short video of a satellite passing overhead with the 13pm. The 12pm couldn't get the dim reflection of even some of the brightest. I got into some astrophotography during the Venus transit, and got most of it. My 8" Celestron CPC had major issues tracking properly though, so it's pretty jerky, but so cool to get it/watch it happening. Cell phone cameras have almost killed the DSLR market as they continue their march to absurdly high levels of resolution that no computer can accurately display.
Thank you, aside from the darn mosquitoes, it was fun testing the new iPhone.And will likely get here after our sun/star has killed all life on the planet, if there still is any by then. That and the black hole 'in our neighborhood' in the enter of the galaxy freaks people out, some needing hospitalization (no kidding) but neither are a danger to us. The sun is more of a danger and look how little power we would have to save ourselves. An asteroid, space war, or rain of space junk is a far more pressing problem.
But great shots!! Wow!! I was surprised I could get a short video of a satellite passing overhead with the 13pm. The 12pm couldn't get the dim reflection of even some of the brightest. I got into some astrophotography during the Venus transit, and got most of it. My 8" Celestron CPC had major issues tracking properly though, so it's pretty jerky, but so cool to get it/watch it happening. Cell phone cameras have almost killed the DSLR market as they continue their march to absurdly high levels of resolution that no computer can accurately display.
I hope for clear skies for you as well. The tracking device moves in the opposite direction of Earths rotation making the sky appear still to the camera. However, you really don’t need a tracking device to get shots of the Milky Way with the iPhone. I just used it only to get rid of the elongation of stars during the 30 second exposure caused by earths rotation. otherwise, the photo will still look good, it will just have slightly elongated stars instead of pinpoint stars. tracking devices like this are good for DSLR cameras when taking five minute exposures of the sky, because 30 seconds really isn’t long enough even for the iPhone to get Rich details. that’s why I wish Apple would give us more control or give app developers more control to at least give us three minute exposures for the camera.
Yes, the night mode camera takes three 10 second exposures and stacks them on top of each other to get rid of noise and help cancel it out. Depending on the brightness of the sky it’s not always a 10 second exposure. Sometimes it’s 2.5 seconds stacked over 30 seconds etc.. Whenever you do set your camera on the tripod and initialize night mode, don’t use the default time displayed on the screen, slide the bar all the way over to the left to get the maximum exposure possible and it will only give you a max of 30 seconds. if you’re not sure exactly what I’m talking about do a YouTube search for iPhone night mode photography and they will explain it pretty well if not come back to me and I will help some more. if you already know this information then disregard. I look forward to seeing what you can capture.
These are so cool! I love getting my telescope out, but I have no idea how to use it! 😂 I task my husband with the focusing. This past summer we were able to see Saturn and Jupiter, but they move awfully fast for any pictures even if I wanted to try. We toyed with the idea of buying a camera for pictures, but it got confusing on what exactly you need. Any tips you want to share for capturing this with your phone will be well received!
I have some pictures of the moon from an iPhone camera looking through our telescope. I am not sure which version phone the partial one was taken with, but the full moon one was with an iPhone 11 Pro Max this past summer. Neither of them have been retouched or edited.The aurora is infact really cool to watch, especially if it’s strong. The green sky dance is quite the experience.
The Pleades you say, that nice
Really looking forward to try the 14 PM in a week or so, it is aurora season too.
The auroras in the photos wasn’t that strong, just looks strong because of the 30s exposure.
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The trail beneath The Pleades, starlink Or “just” a shooting star?
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btw, how do you shoot the moon a night? For me it just gets overexposed and a white blob.
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Thanks Tara…
well capturing images of the planets is going to be tough if your telescope is one that does not track the sky. The telescope must be very well polar aligned so it will follow the objects in the eyepiece. You mentioned that the planets moved quickly out of view of the telescope which tells me that it was not tracking. Polar alignment may be difficult to understand, but it’s not too difficult, just takes practice. To help me, what kind of telescope are you using? This will determine for me if it can be aligned or not. If you have a dobsonian (tube telescope in a base) then you can’t track the sky. Unless it has a drive computer on it.
do you have a cell phone holder for your iPhone to attach to the eyepiece of the telescope So you can image through the scope? If not, I can recommend one. If your telescope will not track, the only thing you can get photos of would be the moon. So let’s just start with what type of telescope you have and go from there. A dobsonian telescope looks like this:
This was my telescope for sev years, a 20” Dobsonian for serious deep sky observations. This photo was taken in 2008.
Too much light pollution where I live now and too much humidity. I got to where I didn’t use it anymore and sold it.
I look forward to chatting more soon to offer more help.
Not bad… I have done the same last year. I need tracking on my telescope but it’s not going to happen anytime soon… nice moon shots.
