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• ★ 2024-05-13
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About DeepSkyCamera

This application is for astrophotography with your smartphone. You can take images with long exposure times like classical astrophotography with a DSLR or CCD/CMOS camera.
DeepSkyCamera takes images of the stars including a plan. You take the images in RAW format. Android device uses the format DNG which can be processed with the well-known stacking software.

Astrophotography is not a One click solution and you should familiar with astronomy and astrophotography. The application is for astronomers who know what is a RAW file, what is stacking software and how to postprocess an image. The application is NOT a One click solution for beautiful images without any work. This application helps astronomers and astrophotographers to take the images. You need knowledge about astrophotography and for some pictures you need a telescope.

The phone must help RAW mode and must help manual settings. The application checks the help of RAW and manual settings during startup. Most of the cheaper phones doesn't help RAW and manual settings (like Samsung A and J, Huawei P10 lite). High end phones (Samsung S, Huawei P9, P10 and P20, LG G4 to G7) help RAW.

You can take light, flats, bias and dark frames. Its very similar to take images with a classical DSLR oder CCD/CMOS camera. After that you can do the post-processing with other stacking software as well as with other software for picture processing.

App can focus automatically to infinity, hyperfocal and of course manual focus.

The maximum ISO depends on the camera sensor. Most sensors limiting the ISO value to 800. You can type in a higher value but the sensor wil set it to maximum ISO level of the sensor. LG G supports ISO until 6400, Google Pixel until 12800.

Its the same for the exposure time. Most of the sensors limiting the maximum exposure time to 30 seconds. You can type in a higher value but the sensor sets it to the highest possible value. Die LG G and Huawei P supports up to 30 seconds.


DeepSkyCamera takes only pictures. The application is not designed for the post-processing.

The sample image shows constellation Ursa Major with the LG G4: 256 light frames every 30 sec which results in nearly Two h exposure time in total. 170 dark framesan 100 flat frames applied. Processed with extra software. The second and 3rd pic shows Cygnus taken with LG G4 and LG G6. The latest pic shows M31 with LG G6 (M33 is on the bottom, double star cluster and Cassiopeia upper left).

You can use a easy portable mount for travel purposes like iOptron SkyTracker, AstroTrac or StarAdventurer. You place a ballhead on the top and add a clip from a little phone tripod. With the preview function (which is automatically visible after start) you can adjust the ballhead according to the brightest stars.

A manual is here:
https://www.deepskycamera.de/manual/DeepSkyCamera_manual_en.pdf

New Features: New UI;High Resolution JPEG integrated;support for all Samsung S24 models with 51 sec max exposure time (also on Exynos);Increased exposure times for Nokia XR21(32 sec), Motorola G13(38 sec), Samsung M34 5G(60 sec), Samsung A25 5 (30 sec);Samsung A23 5G(SM-A236):30 sec max exposure time only works on models with ISOCELL camera sensor;Bug fix Samsung S21 models with Exynos: Green tint fixed;Bug fix Sony Xperia:White balance issue fixed;Bug fix Motorola G50,Fairphone 4 and Xiaomi Redmi Note 11.

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