20 years ago if someone said you would one day be able to take photos of distant objects in space with a phone you would probably laugh!

@smalloptics753

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Chris! I know its amazing really, gone are the days were this sort of photography would have cost a lot of money and time.....kids today don't know they were born lol:-)

@AstroLaVista

3 жыл бұрын

@@smalloptics753 lol we should re do the "when I was a lad" Four Yorkshiremen Monty Python Sketch, but with Astronomy :D

@smalloptics753

3 жыл бұрын

@@AstroLaVista lol! Yes, that would be different :D

@AstroLaVista

3 жыл бұрын

Camera? Camera! Luxuurry! When I was a lad we had to sketch the Ring Nebula onto a slate with a rusty nail!

@smalloptics753

3 жыл бұрын

@@AstroLaVista lmao! Chromatic aberration! when I was a lad we use to put two pint pot bottoms in a tube.

Thank you so much. I have a 114mm newtonian and I have spent literally past 2weeks or so reading articles and looking at videos but none of them explained the details as much as you did , I am really thankful and hope this channel blows up soon

@smalloptics753

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words and the sub, so pleased to hear you found the video useful. Have fun photographing those night sky gems. Take care friend.

@namishagrawal2012

3 жыл бұрын

@@smalloptics753 thanks once again I would definitely try it but, currently my place is totally overcast with clouds 😁

Thank you so much my man I plan on taking as many pictures and videos I can of the night sky and this knowledge definitely helps much appreciation

Thats my situlation right now Im trying to capture the Orion nebula with my mobile and dobson 10"

Your videos are excellent! I got into amateur astronomy a bit over two years ago and have checked out a lot of different videos as my fascination with this hobby has grown. You are a good teacher and explain things that regular folks like me can grasp... Keep up the good work brother... Oh yes, I just subscribed...

@smalloptics753

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Doug. Thank you so much for your kind words and support friend. Take care ,clear skies.

Hi I have been doing astronomy since 1966 and always just used cam era I now have a wide angle digital camera and get some great shots of deep sky objects you always need a scope to do it great vid thank you

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

As a complete novice, your channel has really helped me Jason

Great tutorial, sir. Never thought a smart phone can capture ring nebula with telescope. Thanks!

Should have watched this sooner. Good advice.thanks.

verry nice explanation. thanks! do you also have any tips to configure the mobile phone, for moon astrophoto? thanks and clear sky🔭

Thank you so much for this video I'll apply the knowledge from this video for sure nice I intend to be a poor man's astrophotographer and I have no shame cause it's a rich view,sight,photo to maybe put as a wallpaper on your phone or maybe even to print it and hang it on a wall

Not bad at all, Jason! I have all the necessary but I only used for the Moon. I definitely will try! Have a nice Sunday!

@smalloptics753

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you friend! Hope you get some good results. Have a nice day too. Take care, clear skies.

@epic_playz4283

3 жыл бұрын

Ive seen in his comments before lol

Thank you so nuch

@smalloptics753

Жыл бұрын

Your more than welcome 🙂

Great video! Now time to try it… 👍

@smalloptics753

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck, have fun. :)

Great video. I have been struggling with most of the things you mentioned and the tips are indeed what i found to work best. Having the second eye piece is great idea. I found that the hardest thing is trying align the camera with the eye piece during the night. Doing it during the day seems the most reliable way. Also getting an eyepiece with shorter eye relief might help because the phone holder doesnt allow a lot of movement in the “away” and “towards” the eyepiece directions Any suggestions to move the phone further away from the eyepiece? Perhaps some eyepiece extender ? I dunno Thanks

@smalloptics753

3 жыл бұрын

Hello friend, thank you. Yes , I would recomend always settihg it up in the day time, it really is pot luck if you do it at night. To move the phone further away from the eyepiece all depends on what type of phone holder you are using, if yours is the same as mine in the video you can clamp it further up the eyepice giving you more distance from the phone, with basic phone holders you are limited on adjustment control. I found the best eyepiece to use is a 25mm...it works out just about the right distance to the phone. Unfortunally there isn't one straight answer on this type of photography.. it is your typical case of trial-and-error. Celestron do a top of the range phone adaptor that deals with all the problems of this type of photography, as they have load of adjustment settings..They are a bit pricey....but worth it...Here's a link for it. Take care, clear skies :) www.amazon.co.uk/Celestron-NexYZ-Phone-Scope-Adapter/dp/B07D7V3B8M/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=celestron+81055+nexyz+universal+smartphone+adapter%2C+black&link_code=qs&qid=1615756043&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1

@epic_playz4283

3 жыл бұрын

Or just take the eyecup down

Thank u my friend ... Very helpful for me , recently I have bought a mobile adapter like u .... 😊

@smalloptics753

3 жыл бұрын

Hello there friend, your more than welcome. Yes phone adaptors are great fun, for both day and night time use...Have fun, clear skies.

@IndianKnowledgeWorld

3 жыл бұрын

Actually I am only 13 tears old and I have just started astronomy .... And your video helped me a lot ...🙂

Good tips and info👍

@smalloptics753

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Adam :)

Amazing. I had Managed To Capture Beautiful images of Orion Nebula, Pleiades and Beehive Cluster. Definately not bad as I have Been Using this For Moon and Planets. it's Useful For Begginers Great Video: ) and Thanks For Sharing Clear Skies ✨🌌

@smalloptics753

3 жыл бұрын

Your welcome friend. Yes, I've been having a lot of fun with this type of photography.

Nice video. I just put in an order for an adapter after having seen your video and some frustration trying to schoot the Star cluster in Hercules with my 10'' dobsonian yesterday night under perfectly clear skies. It feels so bad having not be able to harness the clear skies to capture the Star cluster properly. Trying to find the right position with just the Phone through the eyepiece is really a pain. After 1 hour I just gave up. Looking forward trying what you suggested. Cheers, Michael

@Michael-se6om

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, my original plan was to order a similar adapter to the one you showed. I eventually settled for the Celestron NexYZ and am pretty happy with the results. Of course a smartphone is not a DSLR or dedicated astronomy camera. I had read a lot of reviews on the product and I believe they must have made some improvements since the comments were posed as I had no problems to align the adapter. Of course you should do that under daylight. And it is of course hard to find the right focus when 90% of the screen is black. Also thanks for the great hint removing the rubber from the eyepiece, that definitely helps and is not a problem for the NexYZ which can be aligned towards the eyepiece and not only in the X and Y direction. Michael

Jupiter in my 130mm Celestron starsense dx 130az appears as a white circle, should these camera setting changes fix that?

I am new to this but giving it a go..im having trouble processing and I noticed you had the same issue in another video...I have a 20 sec video of Jupiter and after processing it it turns to black and white...did you figure out why that happened to yours?

Thanks for another great vid. May I add that if your phone has RAW mode, it will allow for much more possibilities if you want to do some post-processing🙂

@smalloptics753

3 жыл бұрын

Hello XOsuperior, Absolutely, I was just trying to keep the video nice and simple just to show how to get some easy shots. But if your phone does have RAW mode than yes, use it. Take care, all the best for 2021.

@epic_playz4283

2 жыл бұрын

Raw makes the image green

I wanna ask something how do we know that we are looking at the object even though we can not see it?

Hi Jason, I'm a bit confused with the term 'eye relief'. I thought it meant you could view with your eye (or phone camera) anywhere from very close, up to the eye relief distance. On the video you say the phone camera should be set at the eye relief distance so it got me wondering. Is the image sharpest when viewed at the eye relief distance? Cloudy night here unfortunately so I can't try it out but even with my 30mm lens which has a 22mm eye relief, I've been viewing with my eye close to the eyepiece. I thought eye relief was to help if glasses were worn. Newbie error or is it ok to view closer?

@Small Optics can we use mobie camera to see planets please reply

Hi, I was having a small issue with my phone and was wondering if anyone could help me. When I attached the eyepiece to the phone adapter i could see a clear picture through the eyepiece. however, when I put the eyepiece into the telescope, the view in the phone was just a black screen and I could sometimes see part of the eyepiece in the corner of the screen but I could never get it into the full field of view. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I have a 60mm refractor so the likelihood Ill even see the objects is unlikely but Ill be getting a reflector soon enough!

I have a 8-in Orion dobsonian 2019mm FL scope, using 25mm, with some work I was able to get Jupiter I thought the Galaxy S23 would be okay I've heard good things online about it for this. I was able to get a video of Jupiter and its moons crossing the scope with zero color at all though Maybe I need a filter because it was too much light not sure. I have a lot to learn any tips are appreciated. I did get the fancy version of the mount I wasn't impressed with it for the money to be honest.

im already wanting more but dont have the money so Starry night satisfies my addiction.

Thanks

@smalloptics753

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much my friend very much appreciated

@hashtagger8694

Жыл бұрын

@@smalloptics753 your channel has been a huge help, thank you

having bought a new telescope recently and I managed to photograph Messier 44 with iphone

hi yes I wanted to say I have never used a scope just a camera

But what if your switching eyepieces for astrophotography or morning planet astrophotography?

@smalloptics753

3 жыл бұрын

Hey buddy. That can be a bit of a issue, but it is possible to change eyepieces after you have set up but obviously it a bit more fiddly in the dark. In a ideal situation having two phones and two phone holders would be perfect. :)

Also my phones max isi is 1600 and lowset shutter speed is 1/4 is that good enough? LG Harmony 4 and also had to get Footej camera 2

@smalloptics753

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Epic, Probably for brighter DSO's such as the Orion nebula and Andromeda Galaxy, but for fainter ones like the ring nebula you may struggle, 2/3 seconds of shutter time is usually the minimum for the fainter objects.

@epic_playz4283

2 жыл бұрын

@@smalloptics753 oh ok thanks! And just got done processing The Orion Nebula! And looked great 👌!

do you know some IOS' apps??

12:40 didn't know you rapped 😂

@smalloptics753

2 жыл бұрын

LOL!

@epic_playz4283

2 жыл бұрын

Wait meant 12:35

I never did find M57 in a 10" dob I had some 30 years ago, did see the comet impact on Jupiter though. In 2012 as you might known Venus passed close enough to the pleiades to be captured in a 500mm telescope and my canon 40d, telescope in question was the celestron eq130 model escapes me, but it was an f5 and will have hadca similar motor drive to the one you have without the hand control. Suffice to say best day of three was cloudy, though I did get an image the following day, about 6s tracking I was the max I achieved, in 2020 Ven This is not Venus did much the same, this time I was equipped with the sky watcher 200p bought in mind for the grand conjunction the same year, as it happened the 1000mm and full frame 6D was just enough to capture M45 and Venus, guess what cloudy again, though did manage a capture on a EF70-210 at 210 with a 1.4x converter making it 298mm but it wasn't good. Just prior to getting the new mount, I did do a little deep sky, well M42, not easy to miss, on a static mount, I think I managed either 0.5 or 2s, but 2s seems to long, I dud a whole bunch of them re centring every so often, did calibration, except flats if I remember, result was ok. The term when using a eyepiece as a magnifier is called eyepiece projection, if I use the 10mm in the image train I end up with an 18m f90 scope, I did manage a single exposure of a waxing gibbous Venus again not great, a lot of chromatic aberration, possibly from the 10mm eyepiece. So lots of things can be done on limited equipment, so for the fun of it. My background is photography based, and I just love pushing limits. The furthest object I know I have imaged is literally a smudge of light, that is 3.2 billion light is away, this why I love this hobby and marrying it with photography, it just never ceases to amaze me. I am never going to get great images where I live, but I have done M43 some justice, but I have a new way of doing flats, keeping stray light out, so I will have another go this winter. Keep up the the good work explaining things so they ate easy to understand. Clear Skies

Thanks Jason 😊 It's now that I realise I had been doing it wrong all along which made the whole process frustrating to say the least 😶 Can't wait to try out these tweaks 😎 Thanks ❤️

@smalloptics753

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Mubarak! You're welcome friend. I would like to have included a few more pictures, but had memory issues again lol.

@mubarakhayath

3 жыл бұрын

@@smalloptics753 haha😂 we should get some good gear 😭 , the video I uploaded yesterday was in 720 p because of the same memory issue 😅 Also do you film your videos using the stock camera app?

@smalloptics753

3 жыл бұрын

@@mubarakhayath Yes same here, If I did a 30second video I might get 1080p lol. Yes I do film on my stock camera, I will be editing my videos on a driffrent editor soon though to deal with the washed out look they have at the minute, the current one I'm using (Inshot) doesn't have the feature to tweak the colour balance.

@mubarakhayath

3 жыл бұрын

@@smalloptics753 I suggest that you use the same open camera you mentioned ,that gives you more control over video as well😀

@smalloptics753

3 жыл бұрын

@@mubarakhayath I have tried a few but I didn't Iike the final result, I think some of the problem is my lighting, as long as the message of my videos is getting across I'm not too concerned, but I will be addressing the problem...........Eventually lol.

How do I make it to where my phone camera doesn't close out?

@smalloptics753

3 жыл бұрын

Not quite sure what you mean buddy.

@epic_playz4283

3 жыл бұрын

@@smalloptics753 it closes out after a couple of minutes and goes back to my home screen.

@epic_playz4283

3 жыл бұрын

@@smalloptics753 oh my default camera does and still, how do I fix it?

Can also use headphone button to take photo.

9:39 you broke it 😂!

@smalloptics753

3 жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha! It was already broken, that's why I said carefully, because I have split them in the past from been to heavy handed lol.

@epic_playz4283

3 жыл бұрын

@@smalloptics753 oh ok 😂!

@ExoticGenius2098

2 жыл бұрын

He didn’t break it comes off for cleaning..

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