iJupiter and iMars

[sn1987a (Barry)]

Some snaps of Jupiter and Mars in the 28" by iPhone 6 last night. Seeing was pretty good. I'll have another go tonight

[geolindon (Lindon)]

g day Barry,

its cool what you do with ur iphone

how do the snaps compare with what you see in the ep?

cheers, L

[sn1987a (Barry)]

Hi Lindon,
The image in the eyepiece is always very very much sharper and more detailed than the photos. It's been very difficult to get a decentish image of Jupiter. If I take enough pics on enough nights I might get a good one one day. No hurry though I think I pretty much have the field of big dob, at the eyepiece, iPhone astrophotography all to myself

[astronobob (Bob)]

Thats very cool Barry Do you have the iPhone in a holder attachment of sorts or just free hand ?
Just wondering - as I have an idea I do

[sn1987a (Barry)]

Hey Bob,

I made an adapter out of an old orion phone adapter, a 2" pvc plumbing joiner, velcro and some large nylon bolts. With nylon bolts or screws and different sized pvc pipe fittings you can adapt an iPhone holder to any eyepiece.

[geolindon (Lindon)]

thanks Barry,

have you considered/do you have an equatorial platform for your beautiful 'scopes?

and . . . the next step on the slippery AP slope would be an Atik infinity camera ??

regards, L

[astronobob (Bob)]

Nice one Barry, that's it.
Just a thought, if you have ios 6 or so, could use a 'selfie stick, no no, not to help reach it but they have a flexi cable on the end, 'thinking, could join to a bit longer cable, and have it act as a remote release help take out any shake if there would seem to be by tapping on the screen, , if that's how you do it' ,

then rattle of a few or a dozen and stack them
Only of course if you wish or thought to stack for even more detail, could be rather productive as there is quite a bit of detail in these

Probably more of a thunk of mine than a thought tho, , , ,

[skysurfer]

Did you use any stacking software such as Autostakkert?
These look very good. Movies made by an iPhone can be easily processed with Autostakkert.

[sn1987a (Barry)]

Sorry no stacking involved I just take lots of snaps and hope for the best. I'm not really keen on getting heavy into astrophotography apart from trying to ar$e a decent image with an iPhone for something different and bragging rights. I'll leave the image processing to the pros.
One day when the seeing is perfect .... muahaaa