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This is a 10’s single exposure image of the Milky Way Core. No AI used.

iPhone 17 Pro

Native Camera App (ProRaw Mode)

24mm 1x sensor 48MP (Untracked Tripod)

ISO 3200 | 10.0’s | f1.78

Processed in RawTherapee (Raw decoding), Siril (Stretching & Pre-processing), GIMP (color calibration & tweaks.)

Taken on 24th April 2026 under Bortle 2 skies.

Anyone of you bought a 10" Dobsonian, especially people around age 18-20? If yes how'd you manage to move the telescope to much darker places? Like I bought a 10" GSO and it's Incredible to Observe with , but handling it is Quite difficult... Anyone with same Experience? By the way this is the jupiter i captured , average seeing.

Long-time lurker, first real post. Hoping the mods give me a pass for self-promo because I think this community is exactly who I need to hear from.

After years of doing astro the conventional way — Windows laptops on the balcony that kept crashing, dedicated cameras with driver problems, endless cable management — I decided to find out whether modern iPhones could actually do live-stacking natively. Turns out they can, more or less. So I spent the past year building it.

AstroStackerPro: real-time live stacking entirely on-device, up to ~600 frames per session, IMU-based derotation using the gyroscope for untracked long integrations, on-board editor with denoise (AI, on-device), sharpen, light-pollution removal, and exports to FITS for those of you who want to take the stack into PixInsight or Siril.

Privacy: 100% on-device, no cloud, no analytics, no account.

Requirements: iPhone 11 or later, recent iOS.

Public TestFlight beta is open. One-person project, v1.0.1, definitely rough in places, and I am genuinely at the stage where real users finding the things I missed is more valuable than gold to me. So please be hard on it.

Honest caveat: for certain targets (deep sky, high magnification) you'll still want a tripod, a star tracker, or a dedicated iPhone telephoto — but I'm actively pushing to minimize the extra gear needed.

Best channel for detailed feedback is email at astrostackerpro@icloud.com, I reply individually.

🛰 https://testflight.apple.com/join/aYaV63UV

🌌 https://astrostackerpro.com

Clear skies.

Saturn – 04.07.2026

Google pixel 8, Celestron 127 SLT.

~3000 best frames out of ~4000.

MotionCam>PIPP>AutoStakkert>ImPPG>AstroSurface>GIMP

My very first picture ever taken of celestial bodies and first post with photo

102mm National Geographic Telescope, 25mm Plossl eyepiece with phone mount (26.4x magnification).

Untracked, 40 seconds of imaging before re-centering the target.

Samsung Galaxy S10, 12 MP 1/2.55" sensor, ISO 800, 1/2 Second Exposure, pro mode with DNG frames.

Stacked and processed in Siril 1.4.1 with 1270 lights and 164 darks using the Mono_Preprocessing_WithoutFlat script and debayer option ON.

Bortle 8 location.

Sharp Aquos R6 with Hikvision 35mm f1.4 @~2.4

405x20s ISO 400 + 30 crappy lights

Captured with motioncam pro stacked in dss and streched with lightroom mobile.

Anyone with editing skills wanna give it a try?

Single exposure with my iPhone 14 with my 6 inch dob. 6mm Plossl eyepiece

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1. I tried stacking (I had a video but it was a bit short): PIPP, Autostakkert and Gimp

2-3) two light edits without stacking

4. heavy pop editing

5. Vanilla

Used: Nothing phone (1); an old Dobson 250; NexYZ;

Full moon 30/06/2026

Pleine lune minérale obtenue à partir d'un fichier raw

[23 mm • f/1.6 • ISO 2500 • 15 s] × 100 Light frames + 250 Dark frames (25 min total integration time)

UPD: Reddit heavily compressed the image. For the best quality, download the image to your device and view it locally.

Stacked in Sequator.

Processed in Siril: green noise removal, background extraction, colour calibration, saturation adjustment, and starless stretching using StarNet++ to create separate star and Milky Way masks.

Denoised in GraXpert.

Finalized in Photoshop: final curve adjustments, saturation, colour calibration, and channel mixing.

Untracked, shot using only a smartphone mounted on a static tripod under Bortle 5 skies.

Shot on a Xiaomi 14T Pro using the main Light Fusion 900 sensor.

Explore this region of the sky: Legacy Survey Viewer

Hello everyone! Today is July the 1st, and that means that r/Astro_mobile wants to congratulate the winner of the previous month!

And 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

u/AstrusOne! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Your wonderful shot of M8 and M20 will be our next banner for a whole month.

u/AstrusOne is an owner of Vivo X300 Ultra, what is a dream setup for a smartphone astrophotography!

As a tradition, the word passes to u/AstrusOne:

"I've been involved in the world of mobile phone technology for a long time, and back in 2019 I started doing my first tests with them to see what they could do. With some models, with much smaller and less powerful sensors than now, I managed to take photos with the main sensor where the Milky Way and even M31 or the Andromeda Galaxy were visible. For me, that was already an incredible achievement. Then I moved on to astrophotography with a telescope, and a couple of years ago I started doing tests with the most powerful models of phones, taking pictures of the Milky Way or panoramic views of it. With the release last year of devices with teleconverters from the same brand and Zeiss lenses, I decided to apply the capture and processing techniques usually reserved for telescopes and cameras with powerful telephoto lenses to smartphones, and as you can see, it's looking promising. As a side note, I've built a small flat panel for using these teleconverters."

Thank you very much for that beautiful image! And thank you all for your attention!

See you next time ♥

Hello! I would love to show you my picture of the Andromeda Galaxy. It was shot on my s22u and then processed in graxpert and SAS and then gimp. It's not the best, I know, but it's one of the first things I have shot.