New Image: Jupiter's Moons

[Baurice]

I snapped Jupiter's moons at 300mm focal length, ISO 6400 and 2 seconds exposure. At Phil Collins' bookmaker, it would have been against all odds but I captured all four.

[Graeme1858]

Nice one Phil.

Did you capture the planet separately?

Graeme

[Juno16]

Very nice image!

[Baurice]

Nice one Phil.

Did you capture the planet separately?

Graeme

I tried to but it didn't work. I have VERY occassionally captured Jupiter's cloud belts with a shorted exposure with my DSLR at 300mm.

I will be using a webcam once Jupiter is higher in the sky.

[StarHugger]

Nice snapping, just did my first phone Milkyway snap last light.

Amazing you got all four moons Philip.

[Baurice]

Nice snapping, just did my first phone Milkyway snap last light.

Amazing you got all four moons Philip.

Now there''s another story! I have discovered that my phone only has exposures with a maximum of 1/10 second. This is very limited for astrophotography.

[StarHugger]

Nice snapping, just did my first phone Milkyway snap last light.

Amazing you got all four moons Philip.

Now there''s another story! I have discovered that my phone only has exposures with a maximum of 1/10 second. This is very limited for astrophotography.

I just picked up a brandnew 2021 Moto G Stylus 4lte for 50 bucks US, got a quad pixel 48mp with 4 other cams, 128Gb internal and 4 gig of ram all stock. Base cam app has pro mode to 32 seconds and Iso to 3200 but no intervolometer. Takes a 512Gb Sd card.

Motorol a wanted their cam to be competative with other manufacturers so they partnered with googl e to port the phones mainframe for gcam from the factory and the required stable version for the device is Ver 8.21

So then this upgrades to gcam and now the free addon brings with it gcam "nightsight" and "astrophotography mode"s...

It shoots raw & Jpeg in both Gcam and the base camera app.

A camera app called FV-5 has a cool intervolometer with 30 second exposures being raw and png capable and "Eagle image stacker" is an astro stacking and allignment app for stacking on android devices if you want to persue it further.

The phones are now on sale in the US through straigh t talk mobil and the cam works just fine without registering the phone as a phone so you can just buy one for the fancy camera and upload apks/apps online from a wifi hotspot or through another device and a pc.

49,99 is a super good deal even if you just use it as a cam, hope this helps someone as it has me...

Nice for auroras and meteor showers too...


Best of luck of course!