9+ and taking pictures of night sky.

[Freemason]

What's the best setting in pro mode to take pictures of stars?

 

[SpookDroid]

Lo ISO and higher shutter speed is usually the way to go, BUT you might have to do some post processing anyway. Even if the phone doesn't move... The stars kinda do. Haha. So the higher shutter speed will have, most likely, some motion blur. Advantage of this phone is that you don't need such a high time to get good exposure on the stars. Most of the ones I've taken show up pretty nicely in auto mode.

 

[Rukbat]

I'd suggest LenX, rather than the native camera app - it allows time exposures and, more important, what used to be called Bulb exposure - just open the shutter, flash the bulb, then close the shutter. Set the phone up with the camera facing Polaris, open the shutter and wait a while before closing it. That's how you get those circular star trails.

Anyone can get a good picture of the full moon - the brightness is about 1 lux. A starry sky without the moon is about .0001-.002 lux for the entire sky. You want a very long time exposure. Remember, an arc of only 15 degrees of the stars takes a one hour exposure. Even an f1.5 lens isn't exactly a light-gatherer. Time exposure is.

 

[Mooncatt]

Phones aren't really ideal for stars, but...

Find a dark area away from cities and other light pollution. I'm pretty sure I read Samsung only allows 10 second exposures at most, which won't get you much. Instead you may want to take multiple shots (a time laps or intervalometer app can help with this). There are astro-photography programs you can then import those images into that will automatically align the images so the stars overlap. This will give you brighter and more crisp stars, but the downside is anything in the foreground will be blurred we the images are adjusted.

 

[yarnsrj]

Can you guys post some of your night sky pictures. My sis just got The S9 and I want her to see how the pics turn out if you tweak the PRO MODE setting.