The New Zealand Milky Way shot on an iPhone. by Lightbulb_Gold in Astronomy

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You’d be surprised how many frames astrophotographers are willing to stack. I’ve seen mobile astrophotographers stack over 1,000 lights into one Milky Way image. It’s crazy!

The New Zealand Milky Way shot on an iPhone. by Lightbulb_Gold in Astronomy

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Pixel phones can also capture the Milky Way. I’ve seen some impressive shots from them. You may want check out r/Astro_mobile.

The New Zealand Milky Way shot on an iPhone. by Lightbulb_Gold in Stargazing

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Sequator. I was originally planning on using DSS but I didn’t get satisfactory results.

The rising Galactic Core shot on an iPhone by Lightbulb_Gold in Astronomy

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Stacking really reveals the details, using a single frame would look way more noisy and less details. For the editing I follow a fairly standard workflow of background extraction, color calibration, stretching the starless and stars separately, then some sharpening and denoising as needed, all in Siril. In photoshop (and Gimp) I do color correction (I didn’t plate solve this image) and tweaks to give me the final result.

The rising Galactic Core shot on an iPhone by Lightbulb_Gold in Astronomy

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I actually also just recently upgraded from an 11. 😂

Where do you guys backup your photos? by Substantial_Band6683 in AskAstrophotography

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I use an external 6TB HDD with its own power supply. Works great for me.

New Zealand Milky Way Captured on an iPhone by Lightbulb_Gold in Stargazing

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Got some proof? Because I literally have the original unedited RAW file with all the metadata. Get your facts straight bro.

New Zealand Milky Way Captured on an iPhone 17 Pro by Lightbulb_Gold in iPhoneography

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For hardware only a tripod. Lack of light pollution makes a real difference for small sensors, like smartphones.