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Beautiful clear night Sunday into Monday whilst at glentress, I think I could see the milky way, the skinny if starts visible was pretty amazing , although tbh I didn't stay out too long to really appreciate it.
But I did do a long exposure with my phone, hopefully you can zoom in on this photo, can you see the slightly blurry smudgy thing roughly in the middle!? Could that be a galaxy? If it is, it's kind of bonkers that you can point your phone to the sky and take a photo of another galaxy 🤯
It could be, stellarium is a great program for looking up what's in the sky and you can fast forward or rewind to a desired time so that you could find what it was
+1 Stellarium
Cool.
You'll be paroozing the telescope section at the local camera shop now I take it.
Incredible when you look up. So vast, so little understood.
Looks possible, it’s worth bearing in mind that a great many of those dots of light are very likely galaxies, the sky is full of them.
One worth checking out as we get deeper into winter, and the parent asterism gets higher in the southern sky, and that’s M42, the Orion Nebula. It’s the middle ‘star’ in Orion’s ‘sword’, and is a large gas cloud and a major star-forming object, but it’s not a galaxy. There’s approximately 700 new and forming stars within it. The Andromeda galaxy is another to look out for, but it’s necessary to check which hemisphere any you’re interested in are located, and possible time of year - Orion is a winter asterism, in the Northern Hemisphere, and a winter one in the Southern Hemisphere.
You absolutely have caught a galaxy! Really nice shot from a mobile, well done. A few weeks ago, I treated myself to a Seestar s50 smart telescope. Essentially, it's a digital camera hooked up to a tracking mount and a very small telescope controlled via my mobile phone.
Anyway, here's my first shot at Andromeda, our galactic next door neighbour, and what I believe you may have captured on your phone. The two other fuzzy blobs are satellite galaxies orbiting Andromeda and the thin white lines are satellites orbiting us!
You absolutely have caught a galaxy! Really nice shot from a mobile, well done. A few weeks ago, I treated myself to a Seestar s50 smart telescope. Essentially, it's a digital camera hooked up to a tracking mount and a very small telescope controlled via my mobile phone.
How do you rate the Seestar? A few of the astronomy podcasts I listen to have mentioned them. I don't have the time to faff around setting stuff up any more, thought it might be easy enough that I would actually have the time to do it.
That's a Sharan the VW version!
That must be Andromeda. - you can see Cassiopeia above and Pegasus to the right.
@multi21 Having never dabbled in astrophotography before I've been amazed at how easy and fun the Seestar is. From switching it on to starting to image your target takes less than 10 minutes. I'm still learning all the features! This one made me smile.
That’s a brilliant photo, well done OP. And, FYI I’m pretty sure it’s Andromeda, M31, capturing beautifully the surrounding star fields.
I’m an old school analogue astronomer, and so even when overwhelming numbers of stars make it tricky, can just about see enough constellations to star-hop in your beautiful photo.
In case useful for anyone, you can also see Andromeda on a good clear, dark, night with the naked eye. The first, biggest point of the W of Cassiopeia points at an arc of three quite brights stars of the constellation of Andromeda, and at the tip of those you can see the galaxy.
Stellarium is indeed a useful tool!
