You can get all sorts of attachments for your iPhone lens.
There’s Photojojo, LensBaby, Kogeto, and others.
Lisa Bettany has had a great rig attached to her iPhone that she took around the world to demonstrate the power of her Camera+ app.
But what about attaching a telescope to the lens of your iPhone?
My son and I went down to our local Astronomy Club’s viewing session and after a couple of peeks at Venus and the Moon, I decided to simply hold the tiny lens of my iPhone up to the viewfinder. It’s the same concept all the pocket lens attachments work with, except this was a beastly telescope attached to my iPhone.
While I did it old school holding my iPhone up to the lens, there is an Astroclip in development to attach your iPhone to a telescope – no more squinting to see all the brilliance of space.
Afterwords, bring the images into Lightroom to touch them up and make them pop. There’s a collection of free Lightroom presets at Sleeklens you can add to your collection and once you get better at photography, adding a lighting kit from That Sweet Gift will really make your images pop.
What’s the coolest picture you’ve ever taken with your iPhone?
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Really awesome pic of the moon!
Nice pic and thanks for pointing out Camera+. I just took my first pics from my Meade ETX-90AT last week with the regular iPhone Camera app and it looks nowhere as nice as yours. Btw, I’m planning on picking this http://www.telescope.com/Orion-SteadyPix-Telescope-Photo-Adapter-for-iPhone/p/101445.uts up next week to attach my iPhone to the telescope.
Oh! I did the same thing yesterday with Camera+ and a telescope, coincidence 🙂 http://goo.gl/EYnTK . Bishop’s is much better.