LTP 133: Better than Your Eyes!
This month Bart is joined by Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast podcast for a wide-ranging conversation revolving around photographing recent astronomical events in modern ways. We start with the observation that the cameras in our phones can now see in the dark better than we can, before moving on to a cool new take on the concept of a telescope that takes the technology powering our phone cameras to a whole other level, before finally circling back to some software tips to help figure out where in the night sky to point our phones to capture the things we can’t actually see!
Links
From Allison
- The Equinox 2 telescope (🇺🇸 $2,499 or 🇪🇺 €2,499)
- Also AR (Augmented Reality) Astronomy app - free Stellarium for macOS, Windows, and Linux - recommended by Listener Bill on Episode #50 of the NosillaCast in 2006 (and later by Bart in Episode #367 in 2012)
- Stellarium Web (live in-browser version)
- Stellarium Mobile (Android & iPhone/iPad)
- Used to measure angles between Venus, the comet, and Arturos - video by Nastronomy
- Comet photo by Steve Sheridan www.podfeet.com/…
- Unistellar Equinox 2 Telescope pictures - Steve and Allison. Every image captured sends 2 versions to the phone – one with a circle and info about what you’ve captured and one without. Included are different versions to illustrate this feature. Remember every photo is taken in the middle of Los Angeles, light pollution capitol of the world.
From Bart
- May Aurora Photos
- October Aurora Photos
- Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Photos
- My preferred AR (Augmented Reality) astronomy app — Sky Tonight (for iPhone & iPad)
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