Tried stacking phone pics of the moon through a telescope lens and it actually worked

I was out on my porch last night in Portland with my 6 inch Dobsonian and my phone camera couldn't get a single clear shot. After 20 blurry tries I set my phone right up against the eyepiece and took like 30 quick photos. Then I stacked them in a free program called AutoStakkert and the detail on the craters came out way sharper than I expected. Has anyone else tried this kind of phone sandwich approach or am I just lucky?

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the_elizabeth23d ago

Stacking's basically cheating physics and I'm here for it.

nancy81722d ago

Cheating physics" is such a perfect way to put it. I've been noticing how everything in modern life is just us finding ways to work around the limits of reality. Like taking a million photos to get one good one, or how we all use autocorrect to cheat at spelling. It's like we're constantly finding little loopholes in how things are supposed to work. Stacking photos is just the photography version of that same trick we do everywhere else.

kevin_west23d ago

Real lucky honestly, that's the key right there. Taking a bunch of shots and stacking them really does fix the blur from the atmosphere and your shaky hands. Try a cheap phone mount off Amazon for like 10 bucks, makes the whole process way less frustrating.