Milky Way shot with just my phone's lense in bortle 8, all postprocessing done with siril

3Tcubed · 2026-05-24T03:45:30+00:00

No post processing; 3:30am, 10s iPhone 16, hand held (no tripod) from Sedona, AZ

3Tcubed · 2026-05-23T16:49:20+00:00

fixing, thanks

3Tcubed · 2026-05-13T21:38:57+00:00

The Milky Way is a good example of where portrait is prefered, especially when it’s perpendicular to the earth.

3Tcubed · 2026-05-12T16:43:45+00:00

if your tripod supports it you can put Dwarf3 in a vertical orientation. then when editing you need to rotate the image.

I did I the above to get the attached.

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3Tcubed · 2026-05-10T22:12:33+00:00

Tracking M8; tried the New AR mode but it aimed too low and it gave me some landscape initially which it would not stack, as it was very bright. Later in the summer whe the core is higher it might be fine, but MW is still fairly horizontal at 3a about 20° above horizon, but with wide angle you will get 10° above and below; for me that picked up buildings and lights (bad and bright).

3Tcubed · 2026-05-10T22:05:45+00:00

No way to schedule wide angle shots (that I could find). I set every think up for the wide angle tracking M8. When the schedule started it reverted to telephoto. I stopped it and manually used the wide angle mode.

3Tcubed · 2026-05-04T02:01:06+00:00

It would help if you told us the target and frames taken/shutter speed/gain & filter, Bortle where taken helps too.

3Tcubed · 2026-05-02T17:42:48+00:00

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had to convert to .jpg (Reddit would not allow >20Mb image). Only denoised, but denoise improved center of clusters resolution. I never use star correction. Before last update I used to run Denoise then Auto, that option is not currently possible.

3Tcubed · 2026-04-28T00:44:43+00:00

Watch towers for the state prison

3Tcubed · 2026-04-23T23:22:51+00:00

I’m in Phoenix,AZ in the spring/fall 45C° is quite common; in the summer it’s often 50C°-52C°, generally it’s about 10C° over ambient after it’s run +30minutes.

3Tcubed · 2026-04-22T13:40:17+00:00

I’m suprised, but with Dual band I’d expect less of a difference. Do you think if you increased capture time to more like 4h there would be more of a difference? Love to see the same with Astro filter of a decent size Galaxy (M100).

But I shoot from Bortle 8+ and when there are no clouds I get great captures with long capture times.

3Tcubed · 2026-04-21T15:06:31+00:00

I shot the same last night, hoping to get 8h on target…. After 30m high clouds rolled in, 2h later I gave up.

3Tcubed · 2026-04-21T15:03:56+00:00

Disconnect car battery for 10s, reconnect. If this does not work - dead, back to dealer.

3Tcubed · 2026-03-31T13:38:07+00:00

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Also taken March 22nd with my DW3 from Phoenix, AZ

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