I did this stacking some photos done with the Mi 9 two weeks ago. As I’m from the Northern Hemisphere this is the most high the galactic center rises over the horizon. The two bright “stars” at the left of the Milky Way are Jupiter and Saturn
Mi 9, 12 photos x 32′: 6 and half minutes of exposition. ISO 3200. Stacked with Sequator. Of course there is a lot of noise, and the landscape is blurry, but I think is good enough
was this done on stock camera or did you do the max exposure until it added up to 6 minutes then stacked?
Stock camera, pro mode with max exposure and done
Nice 👏👏👏
Great picture! You should try taking RAWs instead of JPEGs with a third party app. You can get much more detail from the Milky way. Here are some examples what I achieved with RAW stacking with my Mi 9: https://imgur.com/a/dxaTOPn
tips on how to fix colors from raw?
What colors you mean?
If you mean that raw images are this washed out grayish colors, you need to put them into some photo editing software. Raw images are for holding data, not to look at them directly.
Doesn’t it need be root?
No it doesn’t, check out DeepSkyCamera or Open Camera
I will, thank you!
i know but whats the best way to get accurate colours
In my limited experience, you could create a color profile, which you know the colors for, and then use that, as a template and tweak it. But it’s hard to define, what accurate color is(especially in this use case, since your eye can’t expose for 32s). It’s more a creative process to find the colors, which looks good on your image.
thats great thank you
Is there some sort of tutorial to do this with stock cam? I rly wanna try this out too
Wow! This photo is incredible! I use the same phone and I know what the camera can do, but I’d never suspect, that taking these quality photos is possible. Really great!
I have a RAW option on Mi 10 stock camera, dunno if it’s available on the Mi 9 tho
In my case those are not stars, but rectangular groups of pixels in hard red and hard blue, very different from stars (White points) If there is something, even very dim, the sensor can capture it, but if there isn’t absolutely nothing to capture, the software creates colors
That photo is awesome, cuold i do it with my redmi note 8 pro too?
I have seen one video on Youtube and apparently it has pro mode and 32 sec exposition. I don’t know the specifications of the camera sensor, but shouldn’t be any problem
Not tutorial as the YouTube ones, but I hope this helps:
1. You need Pro mode in the Camera with at least 4-8 sec exposition time. And a tripod, very important, in the worst case you can use a brick or a stone. One of 2$ in aliexpress should do the job. Also, one user pointed that there are other camera apps for astrophotography, but I haven’t tried them yet.
Edit: I have tried DeepSky Camera and it’s very good. Strongly recommended. Just say how much photos you want and the app does it one after another and you can do other things meanwhile, so the step 3 is now very easy
2. Get outside of the city and go to any dark place. Use any light pollution map to search for dark places. In my photo, the place was Bortle 5, aiming to Bortle 3-4.
3. Know where to point. Search the Sagitarius constelation and the Milky Way core should be easy to see. Very easy in Equator and Southern Hemisphere, but very hard at high latitudes (I did the photo from North Spain, 40º N). If you are in the north, search for the top of a mountain without obstacles to the south. In Southern Hemisphere there ‘s no problem as the Milky Way is over your head
4. Put the phone in the tripod and start making photos. Do one, wait 32 sec (If the exposure time is 32 sec), and do another. Now, you decide how many photos you want, because this step is the boring one. I did 12.
5. In home, download any stacking software. I strongly recommend (No spam lol) Sequator for Windows, it’s very easy to use. And it’s done.
6. This step is optional, but I recommend edit the final photo in Photoshop.
Any doubt, just ask me, because today I’m tired and probably I missed some step (Or made any spell mistake lol)
Thank you !
Edit: yikes belgium has very much light pollution x.x
I used gcam on mi 9 lite and got this:
No post edit. Just 6 or 7 minutes on the tripod.
Nowhere. The pics you see with the Milky Way so bright are made with long exposure. The human eye simply doesn’t have way to see the yellow zones so bright in real life
Up in this same thread I made a little guide in the comments, hope it helps
Thats “noise”. Looks kinda like film grain. Cellphone cameras do that in low light.