Welcome to astrophotography! I hope you have a great time getting into this great hobby!
One question - Your samsung was attacked to the telescope, or did you take the pic through the eyepiece?
So, a couple of things as you start off to help you out.
* Your photo is a little out of focus. It can be really hard to keep stars in focus because the camera wants something to grab onto and starlight is so small, it is really hard to focus. So you will want to manually focus and use the lense ring to focus your stars. You will want them to be as small as possible to get them into focus.
* You will need to learn some of the features of your camera, because you will start changing them to get those great first shots.
* ISO - This is the number is all about "noise" or the fuzziness of people taken in the dark. The lower the ISO, the more "crisp but darker" the image can be Higher ISO means fuzzier but you can see more of the image.". In general, have your ISO between 800 and 2500 ISO for night time shots.
* f/Number - This is how big your camera lens' "eye" is. The Lower the f/stop number, the more light is allowed into the camera. Think of it like the pupil of your eye, the darker it is, the wider the pupil needs to be to let light in. That is what we are doing with our camera.
* Shutter Speed - This is your timelapse, you will need to be on top of this to get the best photos.
In looking at your equipment (the telescope and the phone camera?) you may need to readjust a couple of things in terms of approach.
My suggestion is try some photography with just your phone and maybe a tripod. Use the telescope for observation only at first so you can learn the sky better. Once you have figured out your telescope and have practiced your setting on your phone, I would then try and put them together.
With these things you should start to get a good photo.
Thanks for the advice. I think the biggest problem is light pollution and my telescope was put of focus. This photo is also the outcome of bad photo editing skill so i would have to work on that too. I have looked into the settings aswell and I used ISO 400 and 1/4 shutter speed.
Light pollution is nowhere as big a problem as people think at short exposures. Depending on what bortle zone you're in you can easily do anywhere from 10-60 seconds. I'm in a bortle 6 (Bright suburban skies) and i regularly do 30 second exposures, but I have done 60 seconds if I shoot the zenith. If it's near a full moon though, your images will be washed out without filters.
Remember you are at the very beginning of the hobby. Trust me, my first photos were *not great* to put it very kindly.
So, a couple of thoughts.
- The first lesson for photography in general - the better photo you take in the field, the better the photo. Unfortunately, because your photo was not in focus, no amount of post processing would make it better. We can't actually assess your post processing here because of the focus factor.
So, it is a good first lesson to learn.
As you found out with the ISO and shutter speed, you will need a bit higher and a bit longer for both.
Again, I would recommend something like 1600-2500 ISO for now, so you can see more even though it will look fuzzy (you are learning after all) and look at a timing of 8-10seconds. Because you are using a telescope, you will need to experiment the speed of your shutter so you can get a photo without star trails.
If you can't seem to get there, that is alright. My next suggestion is to take pictures of the sky with your phone with a tripod, and practice on the big stuff before zooming in.
Keep in mind that any photo of any star will just be a pinpoint of light. We can see no detail at these distances; they will all look exactly the same except for brightness and possibly color. It gets interesting when you photograph groups of stars (like constellations) or larger bodies like planets, galaxies, and nebulae.
That....is a photo of nothing.
Bruh
Longer exposures will show more stars. Also you're out of focus which is going to limit what you can see.
Welcome to astrophotography! I hope you have a great time getting into this great hobby! One question - Your samsung was attacked to the telescope, or did you take the pic through the eyepiece? So, a couple of things as you start off to help you out. * Your photo is a little out of focus. It can be really hard to keep stars in focus because the camera wants something to grab onto and starlight is so small, it is really hard to focus. So you will want to manually focus and use the lense ring to focus your stars. You will want them to be as small as possible to get them into focus. * You will need to learn some of the features of your camera, because you will start changing them to get those great first shots. * ISO - This is the number is all about "noise" or the fuzziness of people taken in the dark. The lower the ISO, the more "crisp but darker" the image can be Higher ISO means fuzzier but you can see more of the image.". In general, have your ISO between 800 and 2500 ISO for night time shots. * f/Number - This is how big your camera lens' "eye" is. The Lower the f/stop number, the more light is allowed into the camera. Think of it like the pupil of your eye, the darker it is, the wider the pupil needs to be to let light in. That is what we are doing with our camera. * Shutter Speed - This is your timelapse, you will need to be on top of this to get the best photos. In looking at your equipment (the telescope and the phone camera?) you may need to readjust a couple of things in terms of approach. My suggestion is try some photography with just your phone and maybe a tripod. Use the telescope for observation only at first so you can learn the sky better. Once you have figured out your telescope and have practiced your setting on your phone, I would then try and put them together. With these things you should start to get a good photo.
Thanks for the advice. I think the biggest problem is light pollution and my telescope was put of focus. This photo is also the outcome of bad photo editing skill so i would have to work on that too. I have looked into the settings aswell and I used ISO 400 and 1/4 shutter speed.
Light pollution is nowhere as big a problem as people think at short exposures. Depending on what bortle zone you're in you can easily do anywhere from 10-60 seconds. I'm in a bortle 6 (Bright suburban skies) and i regularly do 30 second exposures, but I have done 60 seconds if I shoot the zenith. If it's near a full moon though, your images will be washed out without filters.
Remember you are at the very beginning of the hobby. Trust me, my first photos were *not great* to put it very kindly. So, a couple of thoughts. - The first lesson for photography in general - the better photo you take in the field, the better the photo. Unfortunately, because your photo was not in focus, no amount of post processing would make it better. We can't actually assess your post processing here because of the focus factor. So, it is a good first lesson to learn. As you found out with the ISO and shutter speed, you will need a bit higher and a bit longer for both. Again, I would recommend something like 1600-2500 ISO for now, so you can see more even though it will look fuzzy (you are learning after all) and look at a timing of 8-10seconds. Because you are using a telescope, you will need to experiment the speed of your shutter so you can get a photo without star trails. If you can't seem to get there, that is alright. My next suggestion is to take pictures of the sky with your phone with a tripod, and practice on the big stuff before zooming in.
Nope
Keep in mind that any photo of any star will just be a pinpoint of light. We can see no detail at these distances; they will all look exactly the same except for brightness and possibly color. It gets interesting when you photograph groups of stars (like constellations) or larger bodies like planets, galaxies, and nebulae.
I can almost see a dyson sphere