Astrophotography mode takes a 4 minute night sight exposure

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    That worked great! Cool photo!

    I’ve tried this with a dslr and ended up getting light streaks, so appreciate the wizardry involved in that mode

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      1 day ago

      If I remember correctly it avoids the streaks by taking several long-exposure photos and then combining them.

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        1 day ago

        That would still create streaks, the software needs to also rotate the pictures a specific amount to keep that from happening. My guess is that it’s using the GPS location to some extent in concert with the long exposures.

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldOP
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      I took the photo late in the evening, about 11:40pm local time.
      I assume I didn’t catch any satellites because the sun was too far below the horizon to illuminate any of the near earth ones (starlink) and I was 30 miles from the nearest town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan I didn’t catch any city lights or low flying aircraft.