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<blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 845192" data-attributes="member: 48483">Sometimes people try holding a phone to a telescope eyepiece, but it doesn't work well due to contrast issues and motion blur.This is a rapidly changing field of photography. Posts from 3 years ago can be completely out of date now. The most basic wide-field night landscape works the same but deep-sky objects (DSO) is being done so differently as technology and software changes. Right now for the price of a quality telephoto lens you can buy a smart telescope with the camera built in. It is controlled by a phone app, tracks and collects image data for hours to build your photo. Set up in a couple of minutes and pack away compact. This is the new thing. Look up Seestar, and that is just one of many now.Kind of makes buying a travel telescope, tracking mount, T-adapter and camera feel like a futile exercise. Then the hours of tending to the rig, processing the images in dedicated astrophotography software to get your result.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BF Hammer, post: 845192, member: 48483"] Sometimes people try holding a phone to a telescope eyepiece, but it doesn't work well due to contrast issues and motion blur. This is a rapidly changing field of photography. Posts from 3 years ago can be completely out of date now. The most basic wide-field night landscape works the same but deep-sky objects (DSO) is being done so differently as technology and software changes. Right now for the price of a quality telephoto lens you can buy a smart telescope with the camera built in. It is controlled by a phone app, tracks and collects image data for hours to build your photo. Set up in a couple of minutes and pack away compact. This is the new thing. Look up Seestar, and that is just one of many now. Kind of makes buying a travel telescope, tracking mount, T-adapter and camera feel like a futile exercise. Then the hours of tending to the rig, processing the images in dedicated astrophotography software to get your result. [/QUOTE]

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