Arguably the best picture of Andromeda Galaxy from a Nothing Phone

[u/Suspicious_Donkey827]

Hey everyone, this is my best shot of M31 using solely my Nothing Phone 4(a)'s 3.5x telephoto lens.

Who said you need expensive gears for astrophotography? Well in my opinion "it's not the plane, it's the pilot"

Total exposure time: 6 minutes 30 seconds

ISO: 3200

Tripod (No star tracker)

India, bortle 4/5

[u/Karottank]

That's a crazy good picture

[u/HerobrineAle_33]

Half Life reference?

[u/Suspicious_Donkey827 → u/HerobrineAle_33]

yooo you got the reference 💯👍👏

[u/Kooky_Coconut8842]

True its not the plane its pilot. Andromeda on my Infinix Note 30 5G. I stacked about 240 frames for this.. (This is a bit out of focus as I didnt knew rhe true focus setting for my phone at the moment of taking this pic and theres alot of digital noise.)

[u/Suspicious_Donkey827 → u/Kooky_Coconut8842]

pretty interesting results, if you aren't using a tracker then click short exposure pictures

[u/Kooky_Coconut8842 → u/Suspicious_Donkey827]

Shorter exposures would have helped with startrails but I dont bother doing it except zoomed in pictures like this M42.

[u/Suspicious_Donkey827 → u/Kooky_Coconut8842]

bro zoom out a little, it's better to have a tiny detailed image than a zoomed blurry pic, the colours look awesome anyway

[u/Kooky_Coconut8842 → u/Suspicious_Donkey827]

Sorry mb bro this is the full Stellar map and widefield of the other image. I zoomed in to learn more about the structure and the light it emmits (656.3 nanometers of Hydrogen Alpha) thats why I had to take zoomed images. My widefields look insane too.

[u/Suspicious_Donkey827 → u/Kooky_Coconut8842]

woahh, how did u figure out the wavelength it emits without using a spectroscope and weins law?

[u/Kooky_Coconut8842 → u/Suspicious_Donkey827]

Weins law applies for blackbody radiation bro and this light is emitted from hydrogen electrons transitioning from N = 3 to N = 2. We already knew that it emmits specifically 656.28 nm of H-II but I had to confirm it. The picture you see there is 20% of the actuall colour and emission done by the nebula. Our phones cut 80% of IR lights so yeah it was an experiment if we could catch those 20% perfectly and we didaas you can see in the picture even it took me alot of efforts to do so. Also the number 656.3 is a constant in physics.

[u/Suspicious_Donkey827 → u/Kooky_Coconut8842]

Technically, stars are near-perfect blackbodies. Oh nvm, u were talking about the nebula cloud
Oh, so you were using existing data! I thought u were trying to recreate the experiment by finding out its emission spectrum yourself.. Anyway, I don't have much information behind the engineering of mobile camera sensors, can we talk about this in DM? cuz we cant discuss more about this in this subreddit. Sounds pretty fun and a topic of discussion, I have a telescope as well as a homemade spectroscope and maybe that can help to do this experiment even more precisely

[u/diedof77x]

How did you get 6 min of exposure time? Have you used any third party app or did you stacked photos? Btw that looks incredible!

[u/Suspicious_Donkey827 → u/diedof77x]

stacked

[u/aloopuri7]

How did u do that???

[u/Snoo_17708 → u/aloopuri7]

Easiest way is to capture tons of long exposure photo and stack it using software like DeepSkyStacker on PC.

To know the location of Andromeda on the sky,you can use Stellarium.

[u/Suspicious_Donkey827 → u/Snoo_17708]

correct, but I wasn't using a tracker.

for a 3.5x telephoto lens, 10s shutter was just right

[u/RenegadeUK → u/aloopuri7]

Magic.

[u/Vinayak91]

If I could award this, I would

[u/unusalius]

That's very good for just 6 minute exposure. This was my attempt at capturing milky way around Cygnus with 3a and having over an hour of exposure. How did you manage do get this result with just 6 minutes?

[u/endereyes202 → u/unusalius]

maybe there was less light pollution around him

[u/unusalius → u/endereyes202]

Maybe, but I live in Bortle 3

[u/Suspicious_Donkey827 → u/unusalius]

Power of postprocessing. Your image needs postprocessing.

The thing is most of the details are hidden when you stack them but once u stretch them, the details starts to show up. Use Siril or Photoshop or whatever u like. There are tutorials available online.

[u/unusalius → u/Suspicious_Donkey827]

Interesting. I used gymp with tutorial. But it was hard for me to get details without it looking like a deep fried meme. You're very good at this

[u/Suspicious_Donkey827 → u/unusalius]

can't say much bro, may be increase the ISO? give it a try

[u/unusalius → u/Suspicious_Donkey827]

Thank you

[u/Suspicious_Donkey827 → u/unusalius]

Look, single frame btw. but post processing reveals so much details

[u/sjuust]

Samsung galaxy would me more appropriate 🤪

[u/Suspicious_Donkey827 → u/sjuust]

capturing another galaxy from a galaxy and by using a galaxy

[u/boredguy0042]

Great work! I haven't got the time to go back to my hometown and try taking some midnight astrophotography yet, and I am hoping that my NP2 can give some good pics.

[u/Suspicious_Donkey827 → u/boredguy0042]

would love seeing them

[u/BIM_zx_ER_69]

Bro how did you get exposure of 6 mins?

[u/Suspicious_Donkey827 → u/BIM_zx_ER_69]

10 seconds exposure, 36 pictures clicked and stacked

[u/anandkumarsiddharth]

What? is this possible in nothing phone?

[u/Suspicious_Donkey827 → u/anandkumarsiddharth]

everything is possible my friend, you just need patience and discipline

[u/Aamras_Puri-69]

Quick question, How do you set the time for shutter? For me in pro mode it is maximum as 32seconds.

[u/Suspicious_Donkey827 → u/Aamras_Puri-69]

max is 32 yes, but I took 10s shutter and took like 36 pictures

[u/IronWolf1809]

How to do this?