[Leo.G (Leo)]

I finally updated my old Samsung Galaxy S8 phone when PayPal offered me a pay in 4 option and Harvey Norman (and other retail outlets we don't have in town) reduced the price of the base model Samsung Galaxy S24 from $1300 down to $700.
It was time, my screens front and back were both shattered..
Anyway, it has an astrophotography mode in Expert Raw (files my Windows 7 machine can not read or work with) with an ultra wide angle lens and 12mp sensor (50Mp standard). It also has long exposure.
This one came out at 7 1/2 minutes. Last night (Sunday) I couldn't get beyond 30 seconds.
I still have no idea how to use it and am probably too stupid to learn and my D810 is far superior with a Samyang 14mm f2.8ED but I wanted to play with the phone and try it out. All up though it's not absolutely terrible for the convenience but a tripod and phone mount is a prerequisite unless you sit the phone, camera facing up on a solid object and don't touch it (Smile and other commands activate the shutter automatically without the need to touch the shutter button/little white spot.

I still don't understand most of the settings, so far just got lucky with a lot of confusion on settings but it did severely blow the centre of the image out with excess lighting/exposure.
This is the third new phone I have purchased in 32 years, I would have liked the Ultra but that was another $1,000 plus. Not after 30+ years on a disability pension.


Overall I'm impressed with what I captured, not too sure on processing, horrific migraine, eyes that feel like someone is poking two hot rods into them and a lot of sleeping (and pain) medication. I will play further with the image and another night shooting, maybe. After I find a baseball bat or cricket bat to knock myself out with and relieve the pain, hopefully. It just doesn't stop.

Unless I put my new dew band on my 14mm lens and take a real camera out tomorrow night skies permitting.....
If I set up my Astro - Trac and do 180 second exposures I could get much better detail at a much lower ISO.


Has anyone played with this system?
Any advice?

I set ISO to 3600 without knowing it would be a 450 second exposure, at that ISO a much shorter time wouldn't have affected the centre brightness so much I'm assuming?