Capturing Solar Eclipse on April 8 using smartphone

Sean Walker, an associate editor with Sky & Telescope magazine, said: "It all depends on how much effort one wants to put into it.”

NPR reported that people planning to witness the celestial event will have to wear eclipse glasses or other protective gear to keep their eyes safe when they aim their even camera at the eclipse or if they want to observe it.

Tips on how to click perfect eclipse picture using smartphone:

- Go super wide-angle or portrait; doing this will capture the whole horizon.

- Use burst mode during totality. The highlight of the eclipse is the diamond ring, which occurs for just a split second, so photographing it in burst mode will increase your chances of clicking the perfect picture.

- Switch off the flash before totality. This ruins the pixels and obstructs the view.

- Don't zoom in on the eclipse. Zooming reduces the quality of the picture, making it look grainy, Space reported.

- Shoot totality in RAW image format. This would retain the original sensor data and skip the built-in processing your smartphone automatically applies to JPEGs.