DeepSkyCamera

2.1.8

Michael Seeboerger-Weichselbaum

3.04

657 reviews

1,000,000+
Downloads

Free

App is for astrophotography with your smartphone and takes pictures in RAW/JPEG.

About DeepSkyCamera

DeepSkyCamera is a photography app developed by Michael Seeboerger-Weichselbaum.

Download Statistics

DeepSkyCamera has been downloaded 1.2 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 13 thousand times.

User Ratings

DeepSkyCamera is rated 3.04 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 660 ratings.

App Information

DeepSkyCamera is FREE to download. The APK download size is 10.17 MB. The latest version available is 2.1.8. The last update was on March 17, 2026.

Technical Requirements

DeepSkyCamera requires Android 6.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play April 2021.

Description

This app is for astrophotography with your smartphone. You can take pictures with long exposure times like classical astrophotography with a DSLR or CCD/CMOS camera.
DeepSkyCamera takes pictures of the stars including a plan. You take the pictures in RAW format. Android uses the format DNG which can be processed with the well-known stacking software.

Astrophotography is not a 1 click solution and you should familiar with astronomy and astrophotography. The app is for astronomers who know what is a RAW file, what is stacking software and how to postprocess an image. The app is NOT a 1 click solution for pretty pictures without any work. This app helps astronomers and astrophotographers to take the images. You need knowledge about astrophotography and for some images you need a telescope.

The phone must support RAW mode and must support manual settings. The app checks the support of RAW and manual settings during startup. Most of the cheaper phones doesn't support RAW and manual settings (like Samsung A and J, Huawei P10 lite). High end phones (Samsung S, Huawei P9, P10 and P20, LG G4 to G7) support RAW.

You can take light, flats, bias and dark frames. Its very similar to take pictures with a classical DSLR oder CCD/CMOS camera. After that you can do the post-processing with other stacking software as well as with other software for image processing.

App can focus automatically to infinity, hyperfocal and of course manual focus.

The maximum ISO depends on the camera sensor. Most sensors limiting the ISO value to 800. You can type in a higher value but the sensor wil set it to maximum ISO level of the sensor. LG G supports ISO until 6400, Google Pixel until 12800.

Its the same for the exposure time. Most of the sensors limiting the maximum exposure time to 30 seconds. You can type in a higher value but the sensor sets it to the highest possible value. Die LG G and Huawei P supports up to 30 seconds.

DeepSkyCamera takes only pictures. The app is not designed for the post-processing.

The sample picture shows constellation Ursa Major with the LG G4: 256 light frames each 30 sec which results in nearly 2 h exposure time in total. 170 dark framesan 100 flat frames applied. Processed with additional software. The second and third pic shows Cygnus taken with LG G4 and LG G6. The last pic shows M31 with LG G6 (M33 is on the bottom, double star cluster and Cassiopeia upper left).

You can use a simple portable mount for travel purposes like iOptron SkyTracker, AstroTrac or StarAdventurer. You put a ballhead on the top and add a clip from a small phone tripod. With the preview function (which is automatically visible after start) you can adjust the ballhead according to the brightest stars.

A manual is here:
https://www.deepskycamera.de/manual/DeepSkyCamera_manual_en.pdf

Recent changes:
Support for Samsung S26 Ultra, S26 Plus (both with a maximum exposure time of 45 seconds) and S26 (30 seconds)
Full support for Motorola Signature
Vivo Y35 with 32 sec max exposure time instead of 10 sec
Nokia X30 5G with 20 sec exposure time instead of 1/5 sec
Shiftphone 8 with 2 sec max exposure time

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More data about DeepSkyCamera

Price	Free to download
Total downloads	1.2 million
Recent downloads	13 thousand
Rating	3.04 based on 660 ratings
Ranking	Not ranked
Version	2.1.8
APK size	10.2 MB
Number of libraries	24
Designed for Android	6.0+
Suitable for	Everyone
Ads	NO ads

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Downloads over time

DeepSkyCamera has been downloaded 1.2 million times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 420 downloads per day.

Changelog of DeepSkyCamera

Mar 17, 2026UpdateVersion 2.1.8
Mar 3, 2026UpdateVersion 2.1.8
Feb 3, 2026UpdateVersion 2.1.7
Sep 16, 2025UpdateVersion 2.1.6
Aug 28, 2025Installs1,000,000+ installs
Jul 21, 2025UpdateVersion 2.1.5
Feb 25, 2025UpdateVersion 2.1.4
Dec 28, 2024UpdateVersion 2.1.3
Dec 20, 2024UpdateVersion 2.1.3
Oct 2, 2024UpdateVersion 2.1.2
Sep 6, 2024UpdateVersion 2.1.1
Jul 22, 2024UpdateVersion 2.1.0
Apr 23, 2024UpdateVersion 2.0.0
Dec 20, 2023UpdateVersion 1.9.9
Sep 12, 2023UpdateVersion 1.9.8
Jul 14, 2023UpdateVersion 1.9.7
Mar 20, 2023UpdateVersion 1.9.6
Dec 4, 2022UpdateVersion 1.9.5
Oct 31, 2022UpdateVersion 1.9.4
Aug 6, 2022UpdateVersion 1.9.3
May 17, 2022UpdateVersion 1.9.2
Mar 9, 2022Installs500,000+ installs
Mar 6, 2022UpdateVersion 1.9.1
Feb 8, 2022UpdateVersion 1.9.0
Nov 30, 2021UpdateVersion 1.8.7
Sep 21, 2021UpdateVersion 1.8.6
Aug 29, 2021UpdateVersion 1.8.5
Jun 22, 2021UpdateVersion 1.8.2
Apr 28, 2021New AppVersion 1.8.1 in PHOTOGRAPHY for Free

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Developer information for Michael Seeboerger-Weichselbaum

Michael Seeboerger-Weichselbaum

webmaster@deepskycamera.de

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Comments on DeepSkyCamera for Android

★★★★★ Brandon Godsfried · Mar 11, 2025

Best app for astrophotography in play store. App runs good on my budget phone Samsung m14. Developer told me that next update brings a longer exposure time to my phone-around 1 min. That's all for free - 6 stars!!!

★★★★★ Franklin Tomater · Jun 15, 2025

The only app in Play Store which allows long exposure times on my Samsung m34. Now I can do astrophotography. Thanks to the developer!

★★★★★ Alexander Zielinski · Jan 1, 2026

This app is so helpful to get loads of images the moon for example to stack in some other software. It's so easy to get the hang of and love the 70-page manual. It deserves 5 stars but gets dragged down to a 3 star because of all the people who couldn't be bothered to learn how astrophotography actually works. To be honest I had to troubleshoot for about 20 mins before taking the pictures. All the negative reviews are just people who expect this to act like a normal phone camera.

★☆☆☆☆ Neha Adhikari · Jan 27, 2025

It takes lots of time till 100 shots to take, and this disappoints and really sucks. Until 100 photos to take no one will be astro pics just normal pic as phone camera. I checked all points in setting also, better if explain about this

★☆☆☆☆ Manel Toledo · Dec 28, 2024

It's fake. Because when I try to picture the night sky, it results in a white screen.

★★☆☆☆ Elisavet Olikkal · Jan 2, 2025

It was nice at first, but then I took a picture with the night sky And the ground, and it added random stars to it. I'm also guessing that the stars are fake too

Google Play Rankings for DeepSkyCamera

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Technologies used by DeepSkyCamera

DeepSkyCamera is requesting 9 permissions and is using 25 libraries.

Permissions

Development tools

test access to protected storage

Network communication

pair with Bluetooth devices, full network access

Storage

modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Hardware controls

take pictures and videos

System tools

reorder running apps

Extra

android.permission.BLUETOOTH_CONNECT, android.permission.READ_MEDIA_IMAGES, de.seebi.deepskycamera.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

Ad network libraries

None found

Social libraries

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Development tools

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