Hello,
I would love to be able to have a sky-tracking mode on the DJI Osmo Mobile 3 in order to take beautiful sky photos. It isn't too hard to implement, either:
- The phone's GPS location can easily be harnessed to know the user's latitude and longitude and thereby compute the proper inclination of the gimbal required to align with the ecliptic plane.
- The phone's compass can be used to track the North and allow for full alignment. For refined alignment, a custom heading offset can easily be added by the user, akin to what the Night Sky app offers.
- The three-axis gimbal already allows for smooth tracking of objects, so having it follow a elliptical path portion at a set speed (360/86,164 deg/s) is already possible (software-enabled).

Long exposure isn't difficult to achieve, and BULB shooting would be ideal — perfect with a gimbal to stabilize the camera, too .


So all the hardware is present and this would make for an amazing selling point too, appealing to photographers as well as videomakers.

DJI, please make this happen!

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This would be a brilliant addition. Please implement it.

Cheers.

+1 suggestion

This would be so great. +1

+1.
I'm considering buying a gimbal specifically for this.

Yes please!

djiuser_TXxLnuPl068D Posted at 1-8 14:22
+1.
I'm considering buying a gimbal specifically for this.

Yeah, I've been eyeing this for use with my DSLR and spotting scope -

Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer 2i Pro Pack

While it would be nice I doubt the accuracy and stability of the motors are precise enough for Astro photography. If you want a relatively cheap star tracker have a look at the omegon LX2 or LX3, they are mechanical star trackers and allow up to 60minute exposures before having to be reset.

AlanHd Posted at 2-10 23:51
While it would be nice I doubt the accuracy and stability of the motors are precise enough for Astro photography. If you want a relatively cheap star tracker have a look at the omegon LX2 or LX3, they are mechanical star trackers and allow up to 60minute exposures before having to be reset.

They dint need to be that accurate with stacking software. As long as 'it' stayed in shot the stacking software would do the rest.

djiuser_deltO5Ixokfj Posted at 2-15 14:45
They dint need to be that accurate with stacking software. As long as 'it' stayed in shot the stacking software would do the rest.

But each frame still has to be clean, any movement while taking each frame even a slight bit will streak the stars, that’s why when using my DSLR for Astro photography I have to use a remote shutter release and mirror pre lock up to remove any vibration.

Please add this feature! +1

Osmo would become Cosmo !

What is the status of this request?  Since the OM5 has now been released and the new build of the Mimo app along with it has this request been built into the Mimo app?  Did this request make it into the software roadmap?  If so where is sky tracking in the pipeline?  Just picked up my first gimbal (the OM5) and if it can do sky tracking it would be a GAME CHANGER for my astrophotography content creation.  

Reposting here in hopes admin will pick this inactive thread backup -  What is the status of this request?  Since the OM5 has now been released and the new build of the Mimo app along with it has this request been built into the Mimo app?  Did this request make it into the software roadmap?  If so where is sky tracking in the pipeline?  Just picked up my first gimbal (the OM5) and if it can do sky tracking it would be a GAME CHANGER for my astrophotography content creation.  

I want to suggest some type of solor panel to help save the battery and make more flight time

Bump.

Now that Samsung has added astrophotography mode to the S23 Ultra, including a star map, linking to my Osmo Mobile would be wonderful.

I registered here, just to +1 this idea. Planning to use it as a tripod for astrophotography myself and would love to see a way to track the sky