bipolarben

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[–] bipolarben@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago (19 children)

Yes. 88 Octaine is 15% ethonol instead of 10%.

 

I've finally broken my months long dry spell and imaged another astrophotography target. This time it's NGC281… the Pacman Nebula. Squint really hard, tilt your head to the left, and imagine your looking at it though a crappy telescope in the 1980's. Do you see Pacman?

[–] bipolarben@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

[–] bipolarben@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think this was ~4 minutes worth of exposure time. I took this with my Pixel phone and Google's astrophotography mode, which is part of the Night Sight setting. When the phone realizes it's completely still, like on a tripod, and it's looking at the sky, it gives you the option of taking pictures like this. It actually takes a lot of short exposures and stacks them. It's a very automated process, so there's not much tweaking to do. I do wish they gave the user more control.

The setup for this picture was just my Pixel 6 Pro on a tripod pointing up. :)

 

Here's a picture I took of the Milky Way with my phone. My telescope rig is out of commission until I get my new (used) observatory up and running. I need to install the dome rotator, but I'm waiting on a part to arrive before I can finish.

This is all I've got for now. I took this last weekend with my Pixel phone in astrophotography mode.

If you want to see my older images, I have quite a few posted on Astrobin here: https://www.astrobin.com/users/BensAstroStuff/

[–] bipolarben@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Unless you multiply yourself by the speed of light... Then, you energy.