Set out my photon trap on the driveway, I wonder what I will catch! #astrophotography
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 12:06:53 JST Thomas 🔭✨
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 12:08:01 JST Thomas 🔭✨
The yellow stuff on the upper left portion of the sky is the Milky Way btw, phones apparently can do that now
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 12:21:20 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@tim yeah, you can’t cheat physics. cmos sensors we have now operate nearly at limits of possible sensitivity and you need to have physically larger lenses to magnify and collect enough light.
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Tim W (admin (and human)) (tim@union.place)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 12:21:21 JST Tim W (admin (and human))
@thomasfuchs sometimes I wonder why we even need "real cameras". Then I go to an airshow and see people with their meter long lenses.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 12:39:00 JST Thomas 🔭✨
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Sampath Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 12:39:01 JST Sampath Pāṇini ®
@rcpierce @thomasfuchs
Thing is, it does look like someone spilled milk across the sky! -
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Pierce ⚖️ 🇺🇸 🌵 (rcpierce@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 12:39:02 JST Pierce ⚖️ 🇺🇸 🌵
@thomasfuchs Can confirm, this is courtesy an older iPhone.
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