I know it's not much, but I've now got one week under my belt of shooting the stars with my Pixel 5. With a new tripod in check, I actually had three nights this past week to shoot the night sky with the astrophotography features on my phone. I know it's not deep space, but it's a start, I'm hoping to document this adventure as I move on.
This was taken from my backyard, and with the help of Snapseed, I managed to reduce a lot of light pollution from the photo (I live in an area of about 120,000 people and lights)
This one was shooting towards Orion's belt...I didn't see most of these stars while shooting.
I took this one this morning of the Southeast sky about 10 minutes prior to sunrise (I need to plan a bit better going forward).
And last but not least a photo that picked up some light clouds in the sky.
More to come (and hopefully improvement). Thanks for checking it out, and if you have any tips with shooting with a Pixel or using Snapseed, please let me know. Better yet, if you have any photos to share, please do! It would almost be fun to get an astrophotography community going on here, you know? Maybe someday..