I can’t take clear pictures of the planets anymore, yet it still works a bit
I used to be able to take good clear shots of all the planets with this app such as Jupiter and Saturn. Nowadays, whenever I try to do Saturn again in the morning, it would often appear very blurry no matter how hard I try to change the settings in the app. But it would work for some of the other planets such as Mars, Neptune, and Uranus. Sometimes even Venus too. I’m curious if there is a specific setting besides changing the ISO and exposure time to make them clear again or if there needs to be some additional update to compensate for this problem. Please let me know if there’s anything I can do because I want to take clear photos of the planets with my telescope like I once did before. Thank you so much for your understanding. And please fix it to make it the same good old version again. I beg you developers, please!
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Response from developer
There was an issue with v1.2.0 affecting alignment v1.2.1 has resolved this!
Love it
Great app
Doesn’t stack
I tried for an hour to image M13 with this software. I tried different amounts of exposures, exposure times, iso, and stacking methods. Every single time I tried imaging all I got were long stretchy blobs and star streaks. I could clearly see a good image during the capturing process but as soon as the post processing begins it just turns in to streaky nonsense. The app doesn’t even have app support to contact someone for help.
0/5 stars.
0/5 stars.
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Bug
Very good app, but need bug fixes, astroshader can only be used 1 time and the rest of the taken pictures from then on are all black
such a great app
add support for android pls 🙏
1 Year later…
It’s been 1 year since I used this app, and my experience was overall amazing. There has been some bugs, but these new updates are getting increasingly better. I love to see this getting updated more, and I hope the developer keeps making this better. I have gotten some amazing pictures from AstroShader, and I will continue to use this app. Definitely 5 stars!
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My opinion 😍
"The future of photography isn't about the size of the sensor, but the power of the processing. I want AstroShader to bridge the gap between a smartphone and a DSLR through Advanced Computational Stacking and AI-based Noise Reduction, making high-end astrophotography accessible to everyone."
Update
The last update broke the app for me, all the pictures I take are just completely black, no matter how much light is in the picture. I hope this gets fixed soon.
Can you fix it?
It keeps crashing
Awesome, powerful; useless
Camera locks up after a certain amount of time requiring a phone restart, which makes it sort of useless in the field at night on a small mount. iPhone 17, iOS 26.2.1
Only use for taking pictures
The automatic stacking is diabolical for untracked photos. Doesn’t align stars if untracked. I’ll just be putting the images I take into sequator to stack instead
Can you fix it?
It keeps crashing
AstroShader with a telescope
While the standard iPhone app is better for full night and landscape shots, it’s not what this app is meant for in my opinion. This app works best when using a telescope, as the standard iPhone camera app has no stacking software, so there would be large star trails if you try to take a long exposure on the standard app. Excels at taking photos with quite a lot of stars, and nebulas.
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Has its issues, but is great.
I’ve taken many decent shots of deep sky targets like galaxies and nebulae just with my phone to a telescope thanks to this app, it makes things so much easier with limited resources. It still has a few issues and improvements which could be made but ultimately it’s a brilliant app.
Great! Would love more options like deep sky stacker.
Hi guys! Great app! Love it. I’ve got some great photos, but have a few suggestions… Forst of all, where can I select dark flat and light frames??? Could you implement that as a SEPRATE setting? It’s convenient as is, but would also love full manual as an option. Also, could you select where in the exposure are that you want to stack based off? Otherwise a great app! Would encourage! Now it’s no Nicon and telescope, but it gets the job done. Would benefit from a good tutorial… just saying. Can’t emphasize how game changing this was and still is! Have a good day!
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Doesn’t work
App crashes when trying to use any of the features.
Works fine for single captures, crashes on multiple
Multiple attempts to capture multiple 30s exposures. Works fine for 1, anytime I try to select more than 2 the app crashes
Buggy on 17 Pro
Great app and have had wonderful results in previous years, but extremely buggy on iPhone 17 Pro. Frequent crashes right before the image capture is finalised! Nowhere to provide feedback or to contact developer through app…
WHO THE FREAK MADE THIS?
So I download this app and thought that this app can help me get better photos since now I’m an astrophotographer and I’ve been waiting days to try this because I’m trying to wait for a clear sky in my area. I try this and this app doesn’t make any sense. so whoever made the seconds, area, please fix it because one I’m trying to make it to 30 seconds instead it looks like it’s gonna take 30 hours. and second, I’m trying so hard to think is it 30.000, and the other part is the exposure which doesn’t make any sense either because I’m trying to make it at 50 photos stacked, but I don’t know why it says saving on my photos which is why and this app clearly said and I heard from a person talking about this that it does it for you by stacking the images for you. Somebody please fix this I think it’s a bug.
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Crashing
app crashes constantly in iOS 26
