Only got out my small scope and tried phone pics because it was cloudy for a good part of the night. There just happened to be a playing flying by the moon when I was taking pics, thank god for apple’s live photos

Bonus video

Meade ETX-125 (deforked and put on manual alt-ax tripod)

Pentax XL 28mm

iPhone SE3

  • tyler@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    How the fuck did you get it to be so stable. Even with my tripod and a 600mm lens I had to use a ten second timer to get anything without bluriness.

    • lefty7283@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I just braced my phone against the eyepiece with my hands. I think also the scope is nowhere near the weight limit for the tripod so it’s just pretty sturdy naturally

    • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      You could try one of these remote triggers, if the shaking from your hand is the problem. But for long exposure times you’d need a tracking telescope mount 🤑

      • tyler@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        It was only a 1/3s exposure, and it was the shaking from my hand, but I even set it to a 20s timer with exposure delay at like 3s and it still was blurry. Tried with 1/8s exposure and high ISO as well. This was the best photo I could get.