These phone cameras are getting powerful…

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After cleaning the indecent amount of dust that had settled in my primary I gave it a go and made some star tests to check collimation.

Since I was in the neighborhood I decided to test the phone camera in M42. Here is what I got:

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Quite decent for a single frame directly from the eyepiece, right?
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sometimes I wonder if it's a phone or a camera.
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Nice images. Curious what the exposure time was. I have a google pixel 4xl which comes with a night-sight feature in the camera which can take images for four seconds. So far I have taken pictures of constellations. I tried on the moon and I could not get a decent image, same for DSO's. I surmise you are doing something different. Folks are always posting phone/eyepiece pictures in the Facebook Dobsonian group.
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I used and IPhone 11 that has night mode too. The exposure time was 5 seconds. After I took the picture I just increase the color saturation and took out some of the brightness and it got to this result.

I believe this night mode correct some of the drag automatically also…
Telescope: Orion SkyQuest Xt8 Classic, red dot finder and Celestron 9x50 RACI. 
Eps : 5mm CELESTRON X-CEL, 9mm CELESTRON X-CEL, 25mm CELESTRON X-CEL, 2x Barlow lens, DGM NPB nebula filter
10X50 Bino
Camera: ASI224MC
Messier: 30/110, AF.net S110: 78/110
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