Each day Telescope: Seeing stars with an iPhone within the backside of the Grand Canyon

Enlarge / Stars over the Grand Canyon.

Mitchell Yee

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Good morning. It is December 8, and at present’s picture comes from the ground of the Grand Canyon. The photographer, Mitchell Yee, admits that this isn’t the very best shot one would possibly seize from this distant location, however there is a cause—he shot it on his iPhone in August.

“Whereas it is a pretty extraordinary picture, what was wonderful to me was the extent of high quality of cellular phone pictures,” he advised me. “Usually, I might haul out my large Nikon however since we had been climbing right down to the underside of the canyon to satisfy our dories, weight was constrained. So I skipped the additional 15–20 kilos of digicam, lens(es), and tripod and as an alternative loved the 9-mile hike with my 18-pound pack. After all, this shot might have been a lot improved with a ‘actual’ digicam on a tripod. However there I used to be, flat on my again on a sand berm, with the very best digicam I had at that second, my iPhone 13 mini, and I nonetheless made the shot I needed.”

Dories, I am fairly positive, are boats. However I am type of in “Afraid to Ask” Andy territory with that one.

In any case, I assumed the picture was beautiful, and I respect Mitchell sharing it.

Supply: Mitchell Yee

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