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Hi Alex,
Yes you can capture some incredible lunar images with your iPhone but it takes a lot of patience and steady hands ( I don’t use a holder )
I suppose what makes it possible is the Televue Delos and Ethos eye pieces I use which have 15mm and 20mm eye relief. I could not image the same with Plössl eye pieces
It can take many snaps over 5 to 10 minutes to capture 1 good image as the images drifts in and out of view, kidney beans , blacks out etc...with the slightest movement of your hands, plus you have to reset and nudge the scope back into the desired FOV ( not an easy task but doable)
I feel it’s not real astrophotography ( kinda cheating a bit but it does take some degree of skill )
Anyway I was to tired to set up my Astro rig for the visiting family so just used the iPhone with the 10” dob like I did when I started this hobby. They were extremely impressed and could believe the detail ( most of them had never seen the moon through a telescope or an image of it that close)
Martin
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