I just use nightsight and place the photo on a tripod. Doing so puts the Pixel in astrophotography mode. I've gotten some great shots this way. I've also gotten lucky and caught meteors moving!
Great video , which setting did you use in the night sight of google pixel 8 pro , 50 or 12 mp , raw on or off , focus on or far focus , lens focus on auto etc , thank you .
Dudee!!! Don't push the ISO past 667 on Pixel 8 Pro as it applies purely digital gain past that point. You induced excessive digital noise on that image ☹️ Also, I use a camera app called MotionCam Pro and the pixel can shoot 21.5 second images on it. It's meant for RAW video, stills and timelapses so it can keep shooting as long as you need, no intervalometers required. It can then also do a timelapse for you via a built in video editor or just give you all the DNGs without any Google computational artifacts as it bypasses all the processing on top of all. You also can turn off the vignette correction to further help the noise. You really should give it a go! I've shared posts on Reddit with my Pixel 8 Pro and it's really something for astro uses! Did I mention the viewfinder gives the image outputs realtime? And you increase the viewfinder resolution to as much as Open Gate? Can't praise it enough; it even lets me OnePlus 8 Pro do 120s exposures!!
Oh, and before I forget to say it and look like a chump lol If you do try it out, make sure to enroll into the beta version as that's the one with alot of the features above! 😅
Hi, I just wanted to say thanks for the Shiftcam giveaway from ages ago! I just got back home a few days ago from holiday and I was happy to find it had arrived in the mean time. Many thanks!
how can i make on my 8 pro like photos of thunderstorm ? i mean i need to be instant accurate on the shooting of it i gues but how do i do it so it auto take snaps over time
Thanks for the info! Do you know if the camera settings are accessible on the Pixel 7Pro? Or just on the Pixel 8? I can't seem to find a way to set my ISO manually on the 7 Pro. I'm camping at Dry Tortugas National Park (an island 70 miles west of Key West) next week and want to try this.
where do i get/make the motor which it rotates the phone same speed of earth so i can take time-lapse which the earth is moving not the sky? where do i get this device a very cheap one
Hello from New Hampshire, Shayne, thank you for all the advice. As a new Pixel 8 Pro owner, I've be getting my feet wet with it and am pleased with my results, although we don't have the Milky Way core in the sky at the moment to really see what the Pixel can do... It got me to wondering, have you ever used any of your cellphones on a tracker with manual settings? After the images were stacked, do you think they would be richer in detail than even the very good Night Sight settings?
Have been doing star trails on my pixel 7 Pro with the intervalometer app for a long time ... I turn astrophotography mode off in the settings and then use the normal night mode with the intervalometer app!
Hey Shayne, it was great meeting you today. Already watching your vids. My partner went outside and set her galaxy 22ultra and did some pics, stood out there for 4 minutes, and results for the first time were great. Cheers Trev :)
What would be the best settings/method for capturing a meteor shower? On a pixel
I just use nightsight and place the photo on a tripod. Doing so puts the Pixel in astrophotography mode. I've gotten some great shots this way. I've also gotten lucky and caught meteors moving!
Great video , which setting did you use in the night sight of google pixel 8 pro , 50 or 12 mp , raw on or off , focus on or far focus , lens focus on auto etc , thank you .
Dudee!!! Don't push the ISO past 667 on Pixel 8 Pro as it applies purely digital gain past that point. You induced excessive digital noise on that image ☹️
Also, I use a camera app called MotionCam Pro and the pixel can shoot 21.5 second images on it. It's meant for RAW video, stills and timelapses so it can keep shooting as long as you need, no intervalometers required. It can then also do a timelapse for you via a built in video editor or just give you all the DNGs without any Google computational artifacts as it bypasses all the processing on top of all.
You also can turn off the vignette correction to further help the noise.
You really should give it a go! I've shared posts on Reddit with my Pixel 8 Pro and it's really something for astro uses! Did I mention the viewfinder gives the image outputs realtime? And you increase the viewfinder resolution to as much as Open Gate?
Can't praise it enough; it even lets me OnePlus 8 Pro do 120s exposures!!
Oh, and before I forget to say it and look like a chump lol
If you do try it out, make sure to enroll into the beta version as that's the one with alot of the features above! 😅
Bloody legend! Thanks mate, I will try this.
Definitely thinking a lot outside of the box to get this one working. Nice find.
Thanks mate
Nice to see the Pixel catching up 😉
Its really nice
Hi, I just wanted to say thanks for the Shiftcam giveaway from ages ago! I just got back home a few days ago from holiday and I was happy to find it had arrived in the mean time. Many thanks!
Legend! Enjoy mate
how can i make on my 8 pro like photos of thunderstorm ? i mean i need to be instant accurate on the shooting of it i gues but how do i do it so it auto take snaps over time
Thanks for the info! Do you know if the camera settings are accessible on the Pixel 7Pro? Or just on the Pixel 8? I can't seem to find a way to set my ISO manually on the 7 Pro. I'm camping at Dry Tortugas National Park (an island 70 miles west of Key West) next week and want to try this.
Thanks Brian for getting Shaynes brain working :)
HAHA true that!
Or you could export all frames from the 1 second astrotimelapse video, then stacking them all to do star trails. Has anyone tried that?
I used a One Plus 10T for night star photography but this it seems Pixel will do the trick and this is incredible! Thanks, what a genius idea!
where do i get/make the motor which it rotates the phone same speed of earth so i can take time-lapse which the earth is moving not the sky? where do i get this device a very cheap one
Bloody top job, superb, 👌👍🏴
Cheers Legend
Hello from New Hampshire, Shayne, thank you for all the advice. As a new Pixel 8 Pro owner, I've be getting my feet wet with it and am pleased with my results, although we don't have the Milky Way core in the sky at the moment to really see what the Pixel can do... It got me to wondering, have you ever used any of your cellphones on a tracker with manual settings? After the images were stacked, do you think they would be richer in detail than even the very good Night Sight settings?
I was just sent a tracker. I will be testing it out soon mate. Stay tuned
Can you do this in a pixel 8?
Hey I'm happy about the star trails. That's great
But will it work on the galactic core the same process? Thanks!
Do you mean for a timelapse with the core? If so, the pixel gives you a short video with each shot. So you could put all of those together.
Have been doing star trails on my pixel 7 Pro with the intervalometer app for a long time ... I turn astrophotography mode off in the settings and then use the normal night mode with the intervalometer app!
Really?? Thats super interesting mate. Im going to try that. Never would have thought that would work. Cheers mate.
@@ShayneMostynis it worked?
Hey Shayne, it was great meeting you today. Already watching your vids. My partner went outside and set her galaxy 22ultra and did some pics, stood out there for 4 minutes, and results for the first time were great.
Cheers Trev :)
That is awesome! Good to meet you too Trev
Yessssss Thanks for this!
No problem!!
Can you see 👀 s24 ultra 😮
Don’t ya love it when a plan comes together? 😊
You know it!
My old Huawei P30 Pro could do star trails. As much as I love my Pixel 7 Pro, it irks me that the camera is essentially throttled
I agree mate. I often say the Huawei camera system is the best. I just dont like the rest of the phone experience.