Shoot a Planet with a Phone and a Telescope: MEGA CHEAP PLANETARY PHOTOGRAPHY

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Shooting a planet with with a smart phone possible and a cheap telescope is not too hard. To save money I used bean bag instead of a mount! This is MEGA CHEAP planetary photography. You will need CINEMA 4k app or similar to record high quality video on your phone, a telescope, an eyepiece and an adaptor for attaching your phone onto the eyepiece. Before going into details I just want to say a MASSIVE thank you to Riktenstein (link below) for the AMAZING music. https://riktenstein.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-the-astrobiscuit-soundtrack and also a big thank you to Damian Peach for unintentionally giving me the idea to use a bean bag when I interviewed him to get some tips on planetary photography https://youtu.be/SfrA_z1F0JY Damian has done some tutorials for those of you wishing to delve deeper into the subject and would like some tips on post processing. http://www.damianpeach.com/ However I don't believe he has tried imaging the solar system with his phone. I actually think it works quite well and I just want to give you a few tips to help you if you want to try this... 1- Most important. make sure your phone records video with minimal compression. You may have a high resolution 4k phone but it means nothing if the video is compressed. Cinema 4k on my android is able to record at 200Mbps and this is good enough. 2- Make sure your recording app can adjust the exposure length on the video. Cinema 4k can 3- lock the focus on the phone an then use the telescope to achieve fine focus. 4- In my experience the best eyepieces to use are the ones which contain the least glass. Kellner eyepices are quite good and cheap (which is why I used one in this demo) but Orthoscopic eyepieces are even better. 5 - I had to convert the video from the phone into an avi movie using a free program called PIPP. https://sites.google.com/site/astropipp/downloads I then used another free program called autostakkert to stack the frames. https://www.autostakkert.com/wp/download/ and finally I did sharpening and grading in photoshop CS2 Please ask any questions you like, I'm more than happy to answer and you should def watch my other planetary video too!! Shooting Jupiter Saturn and Mars £100 mission https://youtu.be/pYsgyL7I8RI