Hello!
While shooting with my camera and star tracker, I thought I’d try a Milky Way shot with my phone.
That’s me pointing up!
Single 30 sec shot with a Galaxy S25.
Used my shoe as a tripod, set a 10 second timer and ran to lie down in time lol
I also put my gfs phone on the other shoe with the display unlocked facing us, as a very faint diffuse light so that we appear bright enough in the foreground.
Edited in free mobile Lightroom, just cropped a bit and then played around with contrast, brightness, saturation and denoise. Took the photo in RAW format, if you attempt it yourself this helps a lot during editing.
It’s surprising how much detail you can get out of a phone camera these days…
Feedback appreciated!
Thanks! You need a really dark sky for this much clarity, away from light pollution.
You can use something like lightpollutionmap.info to find the darkest skies near you.
I took this one from a Bortle 3 spot, which is pretty much the best I can hope for where I live.
The only way to get darker skies than this without going to the top of a tall mountain is the middle of a desert, or generally over 30 miles from the nearest artificial light source.