Observation by Steve Knight: Hand held Orion + Venus

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Steve Knight

Observer

Steve Knight

Observed

2020 Mar 23 - 19:30

Uploaded

2020 Mar 24 - 14:36

Objects

Venus
Betelgeuse
Rigel
Widefield

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Constellation

Taurus

Field centre

RA: 04^h25^m
Dec: +08°12'
Position angle: +28°10'

Field size

66° × 52°

Equipment

iPhone 11 Pro

Exposure

1 sec, ISO 2000, 4.25mm fl at f1.8

Location

Banbury

Target name

Orion + Venus

Title

Hand held Orion + Venus

About this image

Interesting times, looks like my observing will be confined to my very light polluted garden for the forseeable future. This was something of an experiment, I'd heard that you can now capture stars with a hand held phone and indeed it is true. It says it is a one second exposure, I was not holding phone that steady. I can only think that it is grabbing a string of short exposures and aligning them and stacking them.

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