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Astrophotography mode takes a 4 minute night sight exposure

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[–] dmention7@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Im familiar with post processing.

To be clear, the assumption is that the algorithms the phone is using to determine you were trying to take a photo of the moon are "smart" enough to identify it as a photo of a night sky focused on the moon, rather than a light bulb. I'm not sure how you'd set up a light of the correct brightness at infinite focal length to test this though.

ETA: I've never seen this post processing happen so starkly with anything other than a photo of the moon, so it sticks out pretty hard. And I take a lot of photos at work of things that are tough to capture clearly.