{"id":1209738,"date":"2023-12-08T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209738"},"modified":"2023-12-08T08:00:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T13:00:39","slug":"daily-telescope-seeing-stars-with-an-iphone-in-the-bottom-of-the-grand-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209738","title":{"rendered":"Daily Telescope: Seeing stars with an iPhone in the bottom of the Grand Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1337-800x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"Stars over the Grand Canyon.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1337-scaled.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1920\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Stars over the Grand Canyon. (credit: Mitchell Yee)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Welcome to the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tag\/daily-telescope\/\">Daily Telescope<\/a>. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We&#8217;ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we&#8217;re going to take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Good morning. It&#8217;s December 8, and today&#8217;s photo comes from the floor of the Grand Canyon. The photographer, Mitchell Yee, admits that this is not the best shot one might capture from this remote location, but there&#8217;s a reason\u2014he shot it on his iPhone in August.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While it&#8217;s a fairly ordinary photo, what was amazing to me was the level of quality of cell phone photography,&#8221; he told me. &#8220;Normally, I&#8217;d haul out my big Nikon but since we were hiking down to the bottom of the canyon to meet our dories, weight was constrained. So I skipped the extra 15\u201320 pounds of camera, lens(es), and tripod and instead enjoyed the 9-mile hike with my 18-pound pack. Of course, this shot could have been much improved with a &#8216;real&#8217; camera on a tripod. But there I was, flat on my back on a sand berm, with the best camera I had at that moment, my iPhone 13 mini, and I still made the shot I wanted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989587#p3\">Read 4 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989587&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Telescope: Seeing stars with an iPhone in the bottom of the Grand Canyon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Stars over the Grand Canyon. (credit: Mitchell Yee) Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. 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