The phone is probably the easy first step. ... As for astrophotography with a telescope, you can already go for spiral arms of galaxies with old iPhone 6.

If you’ve got any kind of telescope it’s so tempting to try and get an image using a smartphone. Next acquire a phone adapter for your telescope eyepieces. Just about everyone in the world has a smartphone on them.

A pioneer in smartphone astrophotography, Andrew has been using his iPhone to capture close up views of the sun, moon, planets, and brightest deep sky objects through his telescopes since 2011. A smartphone telescope adapter. The stacking and field rotation can be automatically handle using spiralcam app. Andrew Symes has been observing and photographing the night sky from Ottawa, Canada, for nearly 20 years. Finally a telescope.

Andrew Symes. Look around you, there’s one right there. 3 telescope eyepiece adaptors. 5 minutes of long exposure is required to … A smartphone adapter will hold your phone in place above the eyepiece. Cue a smartphone adaptor that fits around the eyepiece. Welcome to digiscoping! What’s more, it works really well if you can keep it very still. Holding it steady is important to get that important photograph in smartphone astrophotography.