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Tim AkimoffI placed my phone up against a beer can on a picnic table and set it for a 30-second nighttime exposure.
I am sometimes surprised by what it picks up that I cannot necessarily process with my own vision.
This capture absolutely floored me.
The Carrier@TimAkimoff Holy !@#$ dude, that's amazing!!
cobalt going beige today@TimAkimoff ooooh this is great! I’ll have to try this sometime.
Eric Puryear@TimAkimoff amazing, where?!?
@eric - Logan Valley, Oregon
Keith (karmajunkie)@TimAkimoff that's a great photo! do you live in an area with limited light pollution?
@kbg I don’t, but I can drive six hours to a spot like this.
Marie Greene@TimAkimoff That's a stellar image!
Gabriel Pettier@oliveknits @TimAkimoff i see what you did there 😆
Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴Stunning and truly awesome!
CHB@TimAkimoff Amazing. What type of phone do you have?
@stadsplanering iPhone 14 Pro
Alex@TimAkimoff same phone here. What software do you use for taking a long exposure?
@akahn Nope, just the night photography feature on the iPhone camera. Pulled the manual exposure to 30 seconds.
@TimAkimoff iiinteresting. Looks like mine only goes to 10 seconds (or it’s not dark enough in this closet where I’m testing)
@akahn Yes, same here. If you can get to a spot that’s dark enough, you can manually push it to 30 seconds.
@TimAkimoff thanks!
Spocko@stadsplanering @TimAkimoff Ah, but what kind of Beer was it?That's the important question for me. Sadly they don't sell Romulan Ale in a can on this planet, only bottles.
@spocko @stadsplanering Block 15 Sticky Hands tall boy.
rhetorical answersMeteor, cool
@swordplay Perseid!
Computeforloot 
@TimAkimoff wow…cool
Mori@TimAkimoff That’s from a mobile phone? Struth
@mori Yep, just an iPhone 14 Pro
@TimAkimoff I’m amazed. I know modern phones can take excellent photos. But not like that. I’ll have to experiment more
Cristin Pescosolido@TimAkimoff some unusual noise patterns in the star field. were you by any chance using a phone that is known to artificially augment night time photos? like a Samsung?
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moon-photos-ai-galaxy-s21-s23-ultra
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moon-photos-ai-galaxy-s21-s23-ultra
@rocketdyke Just an iPhone 14 Pro. I’m sure there is some augmentation.
BoxOfSnoo@rocketdyke @TimAkimoff Probably just compression and denoising. It just gives it a cool "painted" look though. Was it taken as ProRAW, Tim?
@boxofsnoo @rocketdyke It was not. It was taken with the standard night shot with a 30-second exposure.
Andrew "Harris/? 2024" Glisson@TimAkimoff I started digging around YouTube about the origins of our understanding of the Milky Way, because how can we know about the galaxy if we're in it? And that's when I learned you can see the disc extending across the night sky. It's beautiful and amazing. To be able to discern the shape of this immense thing, even if just a cross section, is somehow humbling. There it is, a billion stars spinning together in a pinwheel, and I'm just watching it from my backyard.
@aglisson I’m blown away by how much it it we can’t see.
🥥 Tucker Carlson's Nuts 🥥@TimAkimoff
🥥 Swamp gas?
The planet Venus?
Reflections of headlights on a layer of cold air?
What the heck are those things in the sky, Tim?
And thank YOU for sharing this stunning image of them with all of us.
PS: What brand of beer do you drink? 🥥
🥥 Swamp gas?
The planet Venus?
Reflections of headlights on a layer of cold air?
What the heck are those things in the sky, Tim?
And thank YOU for sharing this stunning image of them with all of us.
PS: What brand of beer do you drink? 🥥
@JStatePost This is looking at a band of the Milky Way galaxy. Not clouds or gasses but the stars that share this galaxy with us. The Milky Way is 100,000 light years in diameter, and our part of the galaxy is only 26,000 light years from the center of it, so this is a band of the galaxy that shows up in our night sky. I drink Block 15 Sticky Hands for the most part.
MW1CFN@TimAkimoff It seems like only yesterday to me - it was the early 1990s - when I would take maybe an hour - and a precision equatorial mount - to capture something like that on film. Even then, it wouldn't be so good and the long duration meant aircraft and satellites would interfere with the image much more. What was the phone, btw?
@MW1CFN iPhone 14 Pro. And yes, I have quite a few shots where satellites and planes can be seen in the exposure. This was my favorite, because you can see a Perseid meteor.
@TimAkimoff I'll have to get rid of the kids to university before I can afford one of those!
@MW1CFN We’re down to our last kiddo at home, so I feel you there.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴#Perseiden--iPhone 14 Pro und eine Bierdose:
Tim Akimoff (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image I placed my phone up against a beer can on a picnic table and set it for a 30-second nighttime exposure. I am sometimes surprised by what it picks up that I cannot necessarily process with my own vision. This capture absolutely floored me.
Pink Pants@TimAkimoff love it! I took this one in Danemark with my iPhone last year. It was the first time I saw the Milkyway
@PinkPants Gorgeous!
Will 
@TimAkimoff Good Heavens
Steve Dustcircle 🌹@TimAkimoff that's only 30 seconds? wow
Madame Aronow@TimAkimoff @kamikat beautiful!! 🌟
OmnivoreWhat kind of beer did you use?
@Ralph Block 15 Sticky Hands tall boy.
Paolo Palombo@TimAkimoff Wow. Fantastic picture. I guess you live somewhere with no lights around? I want to try myself, but I have many buildings and lights around me where I live.
@palombo it was a 6-hour drive to a place with very little light. I’d love to live in a place like that.
Richard@TimAkimoff Great photo. It's amazing to think that most people have never seen the Milky Way with their naked eye and that many don't have any idea that it's even up there.
sparseMatrix 📻I don't think people realize just how much amateur astronomy can be done with almost nothing but a good mobile phone camera.
Awesome, awesome shot. I am truly sad that I live in a dome of light pollution (and a lot of other pollution, for that matter).
dazfuller 
@TimAkimoff fu@# me that’s stunning!!
Michael
Travinatorisme@TimAkimoff Amazing capture, what phone are you using to capture that?
@Travinatorisme I used the iPhone 14 Pro. I think this feature has been available since the iPhone 11.
JulieB@TimAkimoff It was the beer can. 😉
No, really, stunning shot. We have no idea the beauty we miss with the human eye and light pollution.
Cindy JosaitisBeautiful!
Grant 
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Dunno. This would mean 30 seconds without the beer in my hand. It’d be a tough go but looking at your results worth the sacrifice! Great shot!
I’ll have to try this with a local Canadian beer and see how the results compare.
@graand Yes, it was a keenly felt sacrifice. I stole two quick sips before lining up the shot. By the end, the can wasn’t weighty enough to hold the phone up. Would love to see a Canadian beer can night photography comparison!
Saurav Shrestha@TimAkimoff breathtaking! What phone is this?
@realsshrestha It the iPhone 14 Pro