Jupiter from iPhone

[Atmos (Colin)]

Started trying to do some iPhone 5 astrophotography, had a bit of luck getting Jupiter a few weeks back. Going to try to do Saturn one night when it isn't cloudy.

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

pretty impressive from a phone!

[silv (Annette)]

yes, impressive!
did you use an extra app?

[Sconesbie (Scott)]

How cool is that? I've tried with my Iphone 6 through the eye piece of my scope and it is too bright.

I've had a little bit of success with Saturn but not very clear.

[sn1987a (Barry)]

You need to make one of these.

When you've got the image finally on the iphone expand it big enough so that when you touch the bright part of the planet onscreen the auto exposure kicks in. This then adjusts to the right level so details are visible on the image. Hope that makes sense

[Atmos (Colin)]

I bought myself an Orion SteadyPix Pro: http://www.bintel.com.au/Astrophotog...oductview.aspx

Fantastic thing! The moon is bright enough that it can easily be done hand held, just hovering the phone over the eye piece. When it comes to planets though, you really need a phone holder just to keep it in place.

What I have found (as has already been mentioned), the planet you're imaging MUST take up a good portion of the screen. Whether you achieve this through heavy magnification or digital zoom within the phone itself it doesn't matter. Not sure about the Samsung but with the iPhone, the focusing+light metering square is a decent size, if the planet doesn't take up a good portion of that it tries to brighten the black sky and therefore always over exposes.

I did try to run some wavelets over that image but it didn't work, guess there wasn't any more detail to take out of it. At any rate, photo editing was done in Instagram

Cheers,
Colin