How to photograph the Moon with a Smartphone and a Telescope 

This is perfect! Thanks for taking care of us lower budget folk. Many thumbs up.

You can also set the camera for a 3 second shutter release delay. Much smoother than having to touch the screen.

Anyone new to astrophotography like i am , Nico Carver is a great photographer and the only source ill go to for accurate and detailed info..i was overwhelmed with all the choices in gear,the right settings on gear,best times to shoot and then came editing.....Nicos vids where he walks through entire process are invaluable..Best on RU-vid in this field of work by far!!

I took a few videos of the moon for the first time today using my telescope and I was wondering why it was so bright, but this video has answered my question. Today's moon phase is "WAXING GIBBOUS" which means that 90% of the moon is visible. For a better picture, I will need to wait for a third quarter moon phase! Thanks for the video!

Thanks so much for sharing such detailed information explained in simplest way. Subscribed and will stay tuned for more videos from you :)

Thanks so much for this basic guide to lunar photography. It has really helped

Kudos and both thumbs up!!! I have several scopes, a couple 70mm refractory, and 2 reflectors. A Bresser Aurora 150mm and an old school Tasco 127mm white metal tube. The Bresser has a 1.25" eyepiece and the Tasco is the itty bitty. 75". I've tried the afocal method and it's really hard to align the camera and eyepiece. I even have a clamp to hold the camera/phone place but it's still not all that easy.

Thank you Nico.. clear skies my friend 👍🏻✌🏻

Who else is getting ready for the pink moon🤗

Thank you for explaining so well.

This is just what I was looking for...brilliant👍👍👍

Down the rabbit hole we go!

I have an 8” skywatcher collapsible dobsonian and I use iPhoneXS to do astrophotography 😊

great vid, informative and high quality. thanks!

Thanks...very well explained and helpful.

Thanks 🙏🏻 very informative video. Hoping to take our first photo of the moon 🌓 tonight (clear sky depending!).

Shadows are always important including terrestrial photography when the “golden hour” is morning and eventing twilight.

Fantastic, thank you.

*WOW my wallpaper on my phone is literally the photo you took.*

Great video. Thank you.

Recently been using my skywatcher 200p with my S21 ultra, ive had some great results Also, inspired by your other videos, bought a DSLR. Thanks for your work!

Great video. thank-you

awesome stuff Nico,. I'm still trying to get my head around all the adapters to use an eyepiece with a DSLR!!. Looking forward to the next video!

I agree thanks man your asome appreciate it your easy to understand so thank you 100%

Neither item I own. Came across this by accident. But this is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing. I have tried to get a picture of the moon with just my cell. Well, we all know how that works out.

Thanks Nico 🤩🙏👌🌗

Thanks for the explanation !!! 🇺🇾

Thank you 🥰🙏❤️✨🌙

Thanks for sharing this! I’m still wondering if anyone know, how to make so that the eyepiece circle disappear (so that around the moon itself is dark or black?)

Hold on, Nico can you make a video about that telescope set up? How did you get it out of the mount it comes with and how did you hook it up to that mount? I have that same one but the go to mount broke.

Smart tool Nico!

I like waiting to take a crescent moon and catch it with a star inside it or a planet!

Thank you.

Very interesting stuff here mate. Love from india. Namaste! 🙏

Very enjoyable video to watch and GREAT image of the Moon from your phone. First time I tried this was in 2013 and I used Samsung Galaxy Ace and wasn't expecting good shots and I saw my results and they were good from a camera that was 5MP. I must say I love doing smartphone astrophotography after that time and I own the amazing Pixel 4 smartphone that has had so much hype because of its astrophotography mode. Sadly I've not tested it under dark skies due to covid-19 pandemic. I've used it under Bortle 6 skies. I've decided to do my astrophotography in the highlands of Scotland as many places there have dark skies locations because I'm fed up with light pollution here. I also own the Hauwei p20 and p20 pro as both are great in low light. Have you thought about getting the Pixel 4? Doing the Moon first is a good step and I've seen deep sky objects with a smartphone that would be nice. Thanks for sharing and stay safe!!!

Neat!

New to the telescope world and I would appreciate a video on how to locate planets, stars to show my son who got his first Telescope for his birthday 😊

Great video for folks wanting a start. Nice job.

Been wanting to send my friend the moon for days, hoping this will work. Forgot to leave the edit, I don’t have the clip haha, so no go for me

A very nice video, you gave us a lot of information... I have a Mead 2040 4 inch SC. Could I use this to photograph something like Saturn or Jupiter? I know it would be small in the frame but to be able to see Saturn's rings or Jupiter's moons and get a picture of it will be fun. Would this type of photography work for a situation like that? I know from photography a lot of times a not so good picture is better than no picture at all....

Coo video. What I noticed with my very cheap telescope ($50 one) that the phone pics up the image in circular form as you would see with the naked eye when looking through it, so for example in the day time you get a black square with the rounded image in the middle. Is there any method of being able to get rid of the circular effect, i.e. getting a more square image (essentially trimming the the circle to form a square. Do you need better equipment to achieve that? or the nature of a how a telescope works will always mean the same outcome?

I know its an older video but found it very informative!! I recently picked up a used ETX 90 and have played with in the backyard with the kids. Would love to connect my Canon DSLR to it as you mentioned at the end of this video. Di you ever make such a video? Could you share that link?

Since the Smartphones have better lenses and more pixel ... is it worth to make some hu dered photos during some days for stacking them on a pc ... videos often have less resolurion ... I agree in snapseed ... I edited Orion nebula and some more astropictures with it and put them in instagram.

Hey Nico, i cant find the follow up video. Can you post the link?

Hi what settings do you prefer to shot moon with 500mm telescope and about 10mm lens + Mi Note 10 which have 108mp sensor? FOCUS, SHUTTER SPEED, ISO AND JPEG/RAW?

nice ive tried everything on the market with poor results, this looks like it will do the job

can you do a nebula or galaxies with a phone and a telescope, it doesn't have to bee too detailed but is it possible? I have some apps that let me go up to 30 min subs, so basically and I can controll the iso, it's like a dslr with a smaller sensor.

Time stamp for where he took the pic?

Okay my friend I am not a professional by any stretch of the imagination however what I do once I get the moon into my camera is I switch it to manual mode then I adjust ISO to 50 and the shutter as necessary to get it into Focus. Because my phone would just give me a white blob with all that magnified Moonlight coming through am I doing something wrong I don't know but my results are pretty good let me know thanks a lot

Deep sky camera ( android app) is a must if taking photos using a phone.

I have a 70/700 refractor, I have mounted the phone to the eye-piece but all photos seem out of focus. Any advice? when I look with the eye it looks crisp but the photo is soft. used 10s timer to remove vibration from handling it.

What lens did you use? Would a 12 mm lens with my iPhone XS work ?

I use a refractor telescope and Android smartphone. My images suffer from chromatic aberration. The moon usually has blue and orange hue around it. How should i get ride of it??

any tips how to do this with a phone with three or more than one camera? or would you use a similar process using the same Carson Hookupz tool?

I have a problem that the phone is not able to get photo as the brightness of the moon is too much.

how come i cannot get the iphone to see through a 25mm eyepiece?

Please make the video photographing the moon with a telescope and dslr!

For some reason my pictures of the moon look like a bright lightbulb, the brightness doesn’t let me get any detail. How could I fix that? It’s an iPhone 11 btw

Can anyone help me please?! I used to take pics through my telescope with a Samsung Galaxy A71 and they looked pretty good. But my A71 gave up on me, so I switched to the Xiaomi 13T Pro, which is supposed to have a better camera. When I try to take pics through my telescope, they look great in the view finder, but once I take them, they look like crap. Planets have a weird blur on them with rainbow colours around and most of the detail is lost, the moon is really noisy, especially in the dark areas around etc... Keep in mind, they look good in live view before taking them. I really need help with this. Thanks!

How would you use a smartphone as a Finderscope?

I have not téléphone 😭

Yooo 6s gang!!!! Although today I’m trading my phone in for an iPhone 13

Nah my s21 with 30x zoom goes far enough for the moon and the s21 ultra with 100x is a whole other level

i love carson optic products!!!btw, can you use hookupz 2 to also photograph sun with the appropriate filter???

Well its cheap for countries like America but when it comes to turkey its 7 times bigger price than the normal

Better result use hight quality phone and adapter i was shot m45 with samsung s7 edge that image noisy and to much light pollutions = better use huawei p30 pro,sony xperia 1 or other good quality phone photo result be more better use DSLR,CCD,MIRROLESS CAMERA,OR POINT Andshoot

🔵WOULD IT WORK WITH A ANDROID PHONE ALSO?🔴

did you ever made the video photographing the moon with a DSLR?

100 to 125€ for a small plastic adaptor? My German made 10x50 binoculars cost half that...

I am looking from 700mm telescope 🔭 now

Tgus ucgabbek us cakes bebula photos but you uploaded yourself taking photos of the moon to it? Mmmmmmmm the it me confused am I.