How to Capture Orion Nebula with an iPhone and a Telescope

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==Contents==
0:00 Orion Nebula at the eyepiece
1:25 Photography with a visual Newtonian
3:23 Telescope Adapters for Smartphones
5:30 Aligning your Phone to the Eyepiece
6:06 Focusing and Finding
7:23 Taking the pictures
8:54 Stacking / editing with Photoshop

==Credit for Public Domain Video used==
Visible and Infrared Visualization of the Orion Nebula (Short Version)
NASA, ESA, F. Summers, G. Bacon, Z. Levay, J. DePasquale, L. Hustak, L. Frattare, M. Robberto and M. Gennaro (STScI), and R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC); Acknowledgement: R. Gendler

[Varzo]

Wow the tip on using your red light into the tube to set up the iphone correctly is gold! That is always the hardest thing for me to do!

[DaPablol]

Literally the exact video I was looking for! Perfect timing!

[PetraKann]

Explained the basic stacking process very well.

[felipegillie]

Thank
26:55 I couldn’t ever understand the stacking and editing. That helped soooo much. Thank you!!!!

[armandomagallanes]

I will try it tonight, greetings from Chihuahua, Mexico

[Jacobnsjd]

Thank you Nico! I really appreciate your tutorial on this because I first want to start with a phone and telescope!

[SebastianKrabs]

TFW you own an 8" Dobby and this hits close to home...🤔

[SteveZodiac]

Many thanks Nico - I wasn't aware of the staking possibilities within PS.

[angelriper]

Very good explanation, thank you Nico for your work.

[toygaryagci]

Great demonstration with what one can do with a Dob Newtonian and a phone camera. But also, I sometimes use my SkyWatcher 200p with my Canon DSLR to take photos. You can actually get your camera to focus by removing the 1.25 adapter from the focuser and attaching the T-ring. I used this method many times and I was able to get the camera to focus easily.

[mikebennett]

Great video as always. When stacking, I would suggest aligning all the layers with the bottom one. Otherwise you may compound the errors made in the other layers.

[william]

very useful; especially the tip about using flashlight to position iphone over eyepiece.

[KokiKun-wg]

Hey nico! I suggest you to add a motor to the barn door tracker
it'll be excellent for dslr astrophotographers
and it'll also make out fir a great video

[slaxers]

Even though I don't have Photoshop myself I still found this video useful for myself for my future pictures from my iPhone.

I already have some pictures but not mounted on to the telescope so it will be very exciting how great the photos will be once I'll be able to mount it and take photos from there and then edit the pictures!

Great video, really liked it and really helpful! :D

[orestesgonzalez]

Sequator does very well with smartphone photo stacking when you use the partial sky feature and only highlight the eye piece area.

[MountainFisher]

I use a celestron digital camera adapter and put my Canon on it using an eyepiece. Great for video and stacking, plus it has zoom, great for multiple star systems and an 82 degree fov eyepiece. I can use my 102 triplet at high power for some objects. I get a lot of great seeing nights in the Winter here in the desert.

[misaelescobarruiz]

Así hago con mis dos adaptadores para el telescopio y he tomado fotos hasta la nebulosa de la lira muy interesante amigo carvert

[SamS-snuu]

Great video!! I have a 8inch dob, what nebula would you recommend for me to view with just eyesight beside m42?

[JorgePazNaveiro]

Does anybody notice that damn Nico is out in the snow in just a t-shirt and a jacket?😮🥶😆

[jackg]

The Turing adapter looks nice. I wish they had it for androids but I don’t I’d be willing to spend $130 for it. I have a heck of a time using my current adapter, I can never get my camera to line up with the camera. I feel like the phone is always switching the camera on me and sometimes the adapter is against the buttons on the phone. Somehow I was able to capture the Orion nebula on my phone, I was stoked! It was a little blurry since I was holding the phone and it was a 2-3 second exposure.