Android smartphone app recommendation please

[Sooby (John)]

Hello and happy new year to you all.

I am a visual observer. However, for a bit of a change in pace I thought I would buy myself a Chrissy present ie a Celestron smartphone adaptor for my Samsung S8.

I am certainly not intending to go down the serious astrophotography rabbit hole.

I suppose I will need some sort of Android app to do all the work for me.

May I have some suggestions re a 'plan of attack' please?

Clearly I have no idea about this (astrophotography) subject.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

[astro744]

What are you wanting to photograph and what ‘work’ are you wanting the app to do?

You basically just need your phone and the adapter (get a good one that clamps around the side of the eyepiece body). There are apps that can control your camera settings and give you full manual control of ISO, shutter and aperture. Many are free.

If you want to photograph deep sky objects then that is a different story but my son ‘snapped’ a shot of the Orion Nebula showing colour with an iPhone 11 through my 26mm Nagler and Lightbridge 16”. I wouldn’t have thought this possible and yet the image was quite good for an afocal short exposure handheld shot of a DSO without tracking.

[Sooby (John)]

Thanks astro 744