[OGWhales]

> Maybe the fact that there are many artificial stars in that photo due to software adding new light sources which didn't really exist

Huh??

How exactly did you come to the conclusion they just added a bunch of fake stars? Am I missing something? Post processing is a normal part of astrophotography, even with a DSLR.

[eredengrin]

That sounds like a question for them, not me, I made no such claims. In fact I'd be quite interested in any evidence as well, although I wouldn't be surprised if they were using some kind of ML model in postprocessing which ended up adding some extra stars here and there (more charitably, you could think of it as converting noise into stars, when it was really just noise all along). But I'm certainly no expert on how smartphones process their photos.

> Post processing is a normal part of astrophotography, even with a DSLR.

Yes as someone interested in low light photography I'm well aware of this and it's why I'd be quite curious to see any evidence (assuming it exists) of smartphones doing weird things to their low light photos.