Captured this wide-field image of the Galactic Plane covering Canis Major, Puppis and Vela using only a smartphone.
Acquisition
Camera: Motorola Moto G54
App: GCam
Single frames: 6 min 30 s each
Internal sub-frames: 16 s
Total integration: ~1 hour
File format: RAW (DNG)
Sky: Moon absent for main integration
Seeing: average to good
Processing
RAW frames stacked in Sequator (light pollution reduction enabled)
Stretching and signal extraction
Final adjustments in Lightroom Mobile + Snapseed
No artificial color added — faint Hα emission already present in the raw data
Notes
Several DSOs are visible across the field (open clusters and faint nebular structures)
Limiting magnitude reaches approximately +13
The faint reddish structures are real Galactic Hα emission, enhanced only through contrast and color separation
This project is part of a long-term observational log combining visual observing and smartphone astrophotography.
by Technical_Use7731