Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Crux (Cru)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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Smartphone Southern Cross and Neighbours, Kelvin Hennessy
Smartphone Southern Cross and Neighbours
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Smartphone Southern Cross and Neighbours

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Smartphone Southern Cross and Neighbours, Kelvin Hennessy
Smartphone Southern Cross and Neighbours
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Smartphone Southern Cross and Neighbours

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This is the first astro image I created with a recently purchased Xiaomi MiNote 10 Pro Smartphone, using acquisition and processing techniques normally applied to DSLR's or dedicated astro-cams.

It is  made from a stack of 255 x 32 second RAW photos taken over 3 nights, one night with thin, high cloud providing for a diffusing effect on the brighter stars

I used auto-guiding via PHD2 to allow me to apply aggressive dithering on two nights worth of data to eliminate the first night's heavy "walking noise"

The Light frames were stacked and calibrated in AstroPixelProcessor with Darks, Flats and Flat Darks to get rid of strong vignetting and a large number of bad pixels.  Further processing in Pixinsight and final crop & edit in Photoshop

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Smartphone Southern Cross and Neighbours, Kelvin Hennessy