MobilTelesco: Pioneering Smartphone Astrophotography

MobilTelesco is an open-access dataset capturing the beauty of the night sky using affordable smartphone setups. This project demonstrates how modern consumer devices, paired with basic stabilization and long-exposure apps, can democratize astronomical observation and fuel citizen-led research and machine learning innovations. Accepted at CAIP 2025 Conference, our work in “Benchmarking Deep Learning-Based Object Detection Models on Feature Deficient Astrophotography Imagery Dataset” [https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06537] showcases the potential of this dataset.

Explore a universe captured with minimal budget, no professional telescope, and a passion for open-source science. From stars and constellations to the Milky Way, MobilTelesco invites you to contribute to accessible astronomy.

"A telescope in your pocket. The universe on your screen."

Demos

Detection
Segmentation
Generative

Detection Results

SSD300

FasterRCNN

NanoDet

Sparse RCNN

Segmentation Results

Coming Soon

Generative Results [StrCGAN] [Citation]

Object

Ground Truth

MobilTelesco

StrCGAN Inference

Aldebaran
Bellatrix
Betelgeuse
Elnath
Hassaleh
Pleiades
Zeta Tauri

Common GANs

GAN Model

Epoch 5

Epoch 10

Epoch 15

BigGAN
BigGAN Epoch 5 Class 6
BigGAN Epoch 10 Class 0
BigGAN Epoch 15 Class 0
CGAN
CGAN Epoch 5 Class 0
CGAN Epoch 10 Class 2
CGAN Epoch 15 Class 5
DCGAN
DCGAN Epoch 5
DCGAN Epoch 10
DCGAN Epoch 15
DDIM
DDIM Epoch 5
DDIM Epoch 10
DDIM Epoch 15
DDPM
DDPM Epoch 5
DDPM Epoch 10
DDPM Epoch 15
WGAN-gp
WGAN-gp Epoch 5
WGAN-gp Epoch 10
WGAN-gp Epoch 15
styleGAN
styleGAN Epoch 5
styleGAN Epoch 10
styleGAN Epoch 15