{"id":17992,"date":"2020-04-07T20:20:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/spotting-the-international-space-station-with-the-galaxy-s20-ultra.html"},"modified":"2020-04-07T20:20:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:20:50","slug":"spotting-the-international-space-station-with-the-galaxy-s20-ultra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/spotting-the-international-space-station-with-the-galaxy-s20-ultra.html","title":{"rendered":"Spotting the International Space Station with the Galaxy S20 Ultra"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra<\/span>‘s telephoto camera is capable of 100x zoom, a feature the company dubs “Space Zoom.” So I found out when and where the International Space Station was going to pass by my apartment and tried to find it — space, meet zoom. I also pitted Space Zoom against the iPhone 11 Pro<\/span>‘s zoom to see how superior, if at all, the S20 Ultra’s camera is to the iPhone’s.<\/p>\n

Watch the full experiment here:<\/p>\n

The results are complicated. I witnessed a few great flybys, but actually capturing the station with a phone proved to be difficult. Even with a $2,000 tripod, the shutter delay made it nearly impossible to capture something flying across the sky at the ISS’s speed. And when I did capture the thing in 10x and 30x, it looked like an abstract expressionist painting. Or just a blob… depending on how you look at it. You can look it at here, not exactly a photo, but as seen through my phone’s screen capture.<\/p>\n

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The Space Station as seen through Space Zoom. Might as well be X-Files.<\/p>\n

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But the Galaxy S20 Ultra crushed the iPhone 11 Pro in our daytime zoom test. Focusing on the gold-plated New York Life building, which is approximately four miles away from my rooftop, it was able to capture a significant amount of detail. The iPhone 11 Pro’s camera maxes out at 10x digital zoom, and while that photo in itself turned out OK, I cropped in on the image to roughly match the framing of the Samsung’s 100x photo. And that’s where it really wasn’t even close.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The iPhone doesn’t claim to have 100x zoom, but this is my approximation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Now, none of these 100x photos could really be used for anything other than a fun party trick. That being said, my party trick was trying to photograph the International Space Station, and I had a lot fun doing it. So, I’m going to say the Space Zoom gimmick is working on me, at least for now.<\/p>\n

In case you missed it, watch the video above for all the details.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And you can spot the station yourself with NASA’s instructions here<\/a>.<\/p>\n