Hey though I'd share this cool image of a satellite I got while camping a few weeks ago. I was just using my phone on night mode and zooming into random dots in the sky and caught this. Every other picture turned out very blurry but this one is surprisingly good for not using any special equipment. Anyone have an idea what satellite this is?
https://i.redd.it/nmls5um1temg1.jpeg
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if u use the pro mode to take pic and make the phone stand up on smth u’ll take pic better than this
but it’s really cool
It might be a satellite, but the apparent shape you see is caused by the movement of the camera during the exposure. It’s not possible to see the shape of satellites with a phone camera without telescope.
Was the light moving?
I would guess this is actually the ISS.
I would say it was more likely the ISS, but with Samsungs infamous image processing which definitely isn’t generative AI making it look like something it’s not.
Doesn’t samsung image processing basically act as generative AI?
Like of you take a photo of a full moon it just straight up replaces it with a higher quality image to make you feel like you captured a really nice shot of the moon
Booger in the phone screen
I find it very unlikely for this to be the actual shape of a satellite. Most of them are too small to observe like this, let alone with a phone camera. The shape is also inconsistent with the ISS, which would have been the biggest object of this sort you could’ve shot.
However it also doesn’t look like a random blurred streak, so I’m not sure how to explain the satellite-looking shape.
That’s the paper from a straw crushed up. /s
That’s not the shape of the satellite, it’s motion blur from camera shake.
Wouldn’t trust a single thing from a Samsung Camera. When they were promoting the whole “take close up pictures of the moon” they were actually just basically placing the image of the moon in your image, so you weren’t actually taking a picture of it. Soooo something smaller moving quickly…mm idk..idk
If 23+ is 23 Ultra, then it has a fourth lens over the regular 23 which gives it a focal length equivalent to 230mm on a 35mm camera. On a full size DSLR camera that would need a physically big lens, but the tiny sensor on a phone allows a large focal length with a tiny lens. That said it’s got a tiny aperture size capturing a small quantity of photons on a very small sensor and it has to do a lot of processing to convert it into a realistic looking image.
At 230mm focal length then it’s a slim maybe it’s captured enough detail, and if it’s the ISS. I’d say it’s doing a lot of enhancement and giving you something it thinks is realistic.
I live in the country – on a clear night atleast one satellite is always visible now.
Maybe your phone has one of these apps which try to complete blurry shots with stuff that just “fits the picture”; like the Iphone that made every plate on dark tables a detailed picture of the moon..?😁
Anyway, as it’s already been stated: capturing a sattelite with a phone cam is just impossible.
A lot of speculation here. Let’s just do the maths. Maximum resolution of your tele is given by the Dawes-Limit: R=116/3.5 = 33 arcsec
Size of a 30m starlink at 550km = 11.3 arcsec
It’s physically impossible to resolve a satellite with your phone.
Regardless of the fact that OP couldn’t get a clear picture of the satellite with their phone, I just wanted to leave them the tool to answer the question “anyone have an idea what satellite this is”: [heavens above](https://www.heavens-above.com/)
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Not a satellite but a alien vessel
Is that “cool image” currently with us in this room?
Dude, that’s amazing. Good job!
Hobbyist telescoper here! I see a lot of comments saying how this isn’t possible, but they are definitely misinformed, you can see several sattelites with your naked eye, let alone a phone with 100x more zoom capability than the human eye! Most likely is a sattelite, no amount of space debris would be large enough and us not know about it.
Idk my s23 takes garbage pictures of the moon and that’s several orders of magnitude bigger and also way brighter.