Photographing with smartphone

Today a smartphone or iphone gives practically infinite possibilities, for a multitude of uses in domestic and professional life. One of these possibilities is photography, and specifically adapted to optical instruments such as telescopes, binoculars, ground-based telescopes and microscopes.

We all have a gift that is curiosity and this same curiosity is what leads us to take photos, usually curiosity is joined by nostalgia or simply that artistic gift that we carry inside, and that today we can not be of show it on a multitude of social networks. What better opportunity to share absolutely amazing and different images.

There are several photographic adapters for smartphone / iphone, either for use with ground-based telescopes or binoculars. Perhaps more widespread use with ground-based telescopes, following the digiscopping technique.

For this case there are universal and specific adapters. The adapter perfectly holds the smartphone and places it facing the eyepiece of the terrestrial or binocular telescope. It is at this time when we can take the photo. Depending on the adapter, vignetting may or may not appear, which is quickly solved by slightly zooming.

There are adaptation adapters "ready to use" and others in which it is necessary to attach a specific adapter ring, this is the case for example of the brands swarovski, zeiss or kowa.

Smartphone photography has also been transferred to astronomy, specifically astrophotography. Here the great advantage is that we do not need all the accessories that we use in reflex astrophotography. In this case, the smartphone adapters allow the phone to be attached directly to the eyepiece, without intermediate rings.

This also guarantees more power and magnification, therefore we can get to take pictures of planets, depending on the telescope used. As always, we recommend the use of GO-TO telescopes for the photographic subject, with the manuals we can only aspire to photograph the moon.

The last advantage is that in astronomy, all adapters are universal, so they are ready to use on any mobile phone.