STAR TRAILS with your iPhone! Start to Finish Tutorial 

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Would love this but for Android, specially a tutorial for photographing the milky way with an android phone!

Definitely interested in seeing this for Android and DSLR users. But it's a great reminder that if I have my phone with me I can probably get good night sky photos.

Thanks for covering this topic. A great addition to the portfolio.

As someone (in the Southern Hemisphere) who's made many star trails images by capturing multiple images on his big camera and stacking them on his computer with the StarStax app, I found your video very interesting and informative. I'm particularly impressed that you managed to reveal the stars' colours in your final image. I do have a couple of comments. 1) I think it's important to choose an interesting foreground and light paint it with a soft light source to make your final image a bit more interesting. 2) I think a more interesting time lapse video is one where each image is just the night sky (and not partial trails), so you can see how the stars appear to rotate about the celestial pole. This makes a particularly good video if the Milky Way is included in your field of view. Presumably you need to choose different options, or use a different app, to create this kind of time lapse video.

As always thanks for the information in a simple way we newbies can understand!

Hey Nico. Love videos like this specifically involving smartphones because pretty much everyone has one. I've even seen people capture bright DSO's like the Orion nebula, You should do more like this!

This is FANTASTIC!

Awesome, Nico! Thanks!

Wow! Never knew it could be so easy. Thanks.

Excellent - will give this a try - many thanks for sharing!

Seriously amazing thank you so much!!!!

such a good tutorial on star trails capturing with I-phone! Very inspiring and very needed.

So nice to know! I know when I'm going home for Xmas there's a new phone under the tree and I'd love to try this at my parents bortle 2 skies! Additionally, as I stay out all night with my gear, it's super nice to have some 'smaller' more easily manageable, and forgiving setups next to your main rig that you can get some really cool pictures with. Thanks Nico!

Had the opportunity to learn this from you at a conference in Illinois and absolutely love this and the other things you brought to us. Love the channel and what you are spreading!

Great, love it, thanks👍🏼

I just updated my iPhone to the 14 and I'm looking forward to trying this. I've always done star trails on my camera, processing in PS, but I'm always looking for additional astro tricks. Thanks so much!

Thank you very much for this. After watching your video I purchased Nightcap and gave it a go. This makes capturing Star Trails an absolute breeze👍. Will be passing this info on to some of the younger neighbourhood children interested in Astro photography. Cheers

Fantastic Nico and very timely. Hoping to use this with my nephews and nieces over the holidays. Looking forward to a fun family project. Thanks for sharing

Thank you so very much Nico

WOW!!!! I’m so excited to try this tonight!! Ty!!!!!

Nice Video Nico. I'm Gonna Try This For sure with my Phone. I think it's Worth photographing constellations too!

amazing, Thanks for sharing

This is perfect! I've been getting into taking pictures of the stars lately. Found a nice dark area here in SoCal, was going to try a time-lapse video tonight(12-15-22) since we still have the Geminid Meteor Showershower. Honestly best money I'll invest in apps, Thank you so much

Thanks for the comprehensive video....great work sir....

How this channel doesn't have more subscribers is beyond me. This is another excellent tutorial, full of examples and tips, even some alternatives. Well displayed, well narrated, and it's free!! Nico, together with Astro Backyard and AstroBiscuit you guys are the reason I'm diving deeper and deeper into the night sky rabbit hole. Thanks for that!

Would love to see some working apps for Android cuz I still dont have iPhone. Anyway the video is awesome!

I love this channel and Niko

Wow awesome

Really cool! I get the same thing in real time with my Olympus cameras in live composite. Cheers!

Great video, now I know what my next project is.

Thanks!

Thanks for this video! Looking forward to the android version as I just got my Pixel 7 pro!

Great video !! Thanks a lot

Amazing thanku for sharing 😊

Magnificent

Thanks for the tutorial it was awesome 👏 And really appreciated you including the point for starting in the Southern Hemisphere as I’m an Aussie

Very well explained. Thanks.

I took my first star trail using Night Cap app on iPhone, was an amazing experience

Superb!! - I've not got an Iphone myself but I'm sure something similar could be achieved with my Pixel 7 Pro, - thanks for creating this Nico!

Thanks for sharing .

wow I just took one just a couple of hours ago, what a coincidence 🔥

Thank you so much ❤

Hi Nico. Thanks very much for mentioning my app. I’ve been watching your videos for years so was a nice surprise to see it mentioned! Regarding the video not exporting correctly… this is a bug that seems to have surfaced with one of the later iOS15 versions or possibly iOS16. I have fixed this and it’s currently in TestFlight before release in a week or two. Thanks again!

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Perfect! Will try with my s22 Ultra!

I’m looking forward to the android video!

You remind me so much of Carl Sagan. It’s pretty cool👍

Dude this is incredible. Thanks for sharing. I want to get your complete setup. Which tripod is that?

Can you also use the star stacker app for normal astrophotography without making trails ? I just want to make the stars more noticeable

Just watch this video. I see it's a year old. Could you recommend an app or two on Android to create the star trails? Have The newest Samsung Galaxy S24 ultra.. recently downloaded Samsung's raw imaging editor app. There is an Astro feature but I haven't explored it yet. Thanks for all your awesome videos !

Yet another example why Nico is the BEST - keeping it interesting for all levels of beginners. Shame on us if we don't try an exercise or two.

Good evening. Thank you for the video. I downloaded the app, but on mine, the option to program with infinite exposure does not appear. Do you know if the app has been updated and no longer has this feature? Thank you.

Is there any way to remove the satellites from a photo taken in star trails mode? I just tried my first one and there are like 12 satellites 😕 it kind of ruins the picture! So is my only option to try again in stars mode and then manually stack?

@Nebula Photos I have a question: I have a camera, lens (very wide 24-70mm F2.8), and ball-head tripod, but I want to improve my photos and maybe get a star tracker. I have a budget of $450, what would you do in my situation?

I thought the Celestial Pole was some kind of divinity from Poland

Great video. Interesting tripod head for the cell phone setup. Never seen a setup like this before (with the rod and head). Do you have a link to this head?

The cheap tripod: i had one. Its ok for a tryout. But neither very stable nor you shouldnt expect more that 10 - 50 uses (depending on usage i guess) out of it before it breaks. And the phoneclamp: having a better one like shown (i had a worse one) is recomended.

A question, would the star stacker app be good (basic enough) let's say if you are traveling light and you do like a milky way stack, a milky way timelapse or a rho ophiuci lets say then use photoshop for ipad for photo editing? Just trying to see what the limits are.

can that star stacker app stack stars and nebulae like deepskystacker or other software? or is it only for star trails?

Would love to know how to do this on Android.

hi can anyone put some light over how much storage are we talking if I consider taking an hour long star trail with the second method ?

Can we import raw images on the star stacker app?

What was the final size (in mb or gb) of the time lapse?

I'm assuming the stacking can be done on the PC too?

I also live in MA, I wanted to ask where are your goto spots for photographing deep space objects, do you need to go up to the white mountains or anything?

Great video Nico - did you ever do an Android version? EDIT: Found it!

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does star stacker only do trails or can it do regular stacking too (without a tracking mount)?

whats ur opinion on Star Walk 2?

sir, do you know were I can download hd-jpeg pictures of star streak for an project

Will it even work on my iPhone 7 Plus?

Why won't the app let me use the interval scheduler in conjunction with the "star mode" option? It only allows me to use it with "long exposure" and "light strokes", I don't understand, I leave the same settings as you but at the time of pressing the shutter button it only takes a single picture. I'm frustrated :(

Anybody have software recommendations for making these trail images/videos on a desktop computer, whether Mac, PC, or Linux, if given a series of stills from any source, whether an iPhone or other smartphone or any other camera? I know that there are several options, but I'm wondering which one you all would recommend as the best for making exactly these effects.

Is there an Android equivalent for NightCap Camera? Couldn't locate in Google Play Store using the prescribed name/title. Thanks.

What..? How would stringing them together in iMovie help? Each of the 200-frame videos would restart the trail. Do we also have to retain the last frame of the previous clip and overlay them? And the screen recording of the preview is very extremely much lower resolution than the source, not an acceptable solution. Surely having a maximum photo number must be a bug?

Will this work also using an android phone too

6:50 for those bargain hunters you could also just screen record the process

what app would you use if someone has an Android phone

Ok, just getting started....i hope there is some relevance to Androids here....

Please do an Android version

make for android

"Star to Finish" ehEeheHehehe

Thi app doesn’t save any star pictures in star mode! I took over 100 photos and stopped. Went back and couldn’t find any of them at all!?!?

nightcap on iphone 15 pro max after 24 min turned off my mobile.

Celestial pole that’s the Northstar why are you not just calling it the Northstar? It sounds weird.

Android tutorial??? Galaxy s22 ultra is a killer phone..

Why always IPhone? Two thirds are Android.

well, my results with smartphone astrophotography comes to the conclusion, that iphone totally s*cks in it. Before I moved to the iphone 13pro, I had a huawei p30pro, and it was a beast! And without any additional apps, manual mode is amazing. Pixel makes a good results with it's own astro mode, even the samsung. But iphone s*cks, sorry. Love this phone, but it's not for night skies

Waste of money. I can Only take 3 photos and he can take infinity howwwww

Thanks!