I started of by finding Saturn through my StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ and 25mm eyepiece. Then I star hopped my way down to Neptune’s location. I verified that I correctly identified Neptune by matching nearby stars to the Stellarium Star map. And then I started taking lots of photos through lots of apps!
The photo you see first is actually just a still from a video I took of Neptune passing by. I believe I was using a 10mm eyepiece with a 2x Barlow and zoomed in on phone’s camera quite a bit.
I used my IPhone 16+ to capture this, It’s not the ideal set up for doing astrophotography but it’s what I’ve got and I’m gonna use it!