iPhone 11 Astrophotography — Night Mode In Pitch-Black Darkness

[Ken Sp.]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Lq7ZnZgwU&feature=youtu.be

[Rolando]

Wow!

[NewtonMP2100]

[Filliam H. Muffman]

That is a nice feature. I bet all the android phones will have their own version in a few months.

[Speedy]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
That is a nice feature. I bet all the android phones will have their own version in a few months.

According to the comments, Android phones have had this feature for years.

[freeradical]

An iphone would be useful for afocal astrophotagraphy, however, there's no getting over the fact that comparing the light gathering ability of two optical systems is equal to the square of the ratio of the apertures.

Which means that a 35mm film camera loaded up with an ISO 100 film would be a better tool for the job.

The diameter of the lens in the iPhone is I'm sure even less than the (up to) 7mm pupil of the dark adapted human eye.

;-)

[pdq]

I’d try for the Andromeda galaxy on a moonless night in the deep country. The A.G. is actually about 3 times as wide as the moon in the sky, just way fainter.

Tha’d be cool.

[A-Polly]

How cool!

[Lew Zealand]

pdq wrote:
I’d try for the Andromeda galaxy on a moonless night in the deep country. The A.G. is actually about 3 times as wide as the moon in the sky, just way fainter.

Tha’d be cool.

Andromeda and a great many other faint things are visible with the naked eye at a truly dark sky site. There are some sites less than 2 hours away from the beacon of photonic excess known as LA, so dark sky is pretty easily reachable to many people.

Fun fact: the Andromeda Galaxy is the farthest thing easily visible with the naked eye at more than 2 million light years away, which means you're seeing the combined light emitted by billions of stars in the galaxy when Australopithecus still roamed this planet.