DWARF 3 Smart Telescope

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Anybody ordered one of these?

Pre Ordered mine yesterday and it seems very good for the price. Fancied doing some DSO Photography for a long time but was put off with the high cost. Love how portable this is and it will be great to take in the Campervan. I’m hoping it will be a step from the S50, can’t wait.

Dwarf 3
 
Minusorange said:

Seems the evscope isn't worth the money but the others are still capable of getting okay images, although the image quality still sucks but I guess that's the sacrifice for being able to carry it relatively easily than hulking around a large telescope, tripod and DSLR/mirrorless camera and laptop and batteries to run it all for long enough periods
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The Dwarf Lab guys have adding new functionality to the Dwarf 2 which have improved the picture quality quite bit since that video. Most of the picture pop is down to the post processing. Having something portable that takes minutes to setup and cost so little is pretty amazing.
 
Rannoch said:
I love my Seestar S50. I borrowed an eVscope 2, so expensive and the novelty of looking through the eyepiece at the OLED screen soon wears off, but its limiting magnitude is better. I used the Dwarf 2 but it wasn't for me. The Vaonis Vespera is decent and the software is excellent, seen them go for £700 second hand in my astro group, the Vaonis accessories are a total rip off IMO.
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There is supposed to be an updated S50 coming out soon. The narrow FOV is what puts me off, if it had a mosaic mode then it would be an instant buy. You can bet this will be on the next release along with EQ mode.
 
Gray2233 said:
Looks more like a very expensive specialised camera than a telescope.

I can't imagine it really captures good astro images par the moon and some other easily viewed stuff in appropriately low light pollution areas.
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Here’s some real pics from a Dwarf 2 pics

Some of the S50 pics are stunning. Anybody can get good pics without that much knowledge in a small package. You can just press a button and let it do its thing. I’m sure @Rannoch got some great pics.
 
dowie said:
If you've got a whole campervan to fit stuff in then why not get a proper telescope?

I can see how it might be fun but realistically there are obvious constraints here because of its size, it seems a bit gimmicky.
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Show me a proper telescope for astrophotography that can do what these can do in a small form factor for the money?

Our campervan not motorhome is limited on space.
 
dowie said:
But that's the point, it's the small form factor that is inherently limiting it.

If you've got a whole camper van you could equally just get a proper telescope, I mean you could do so even with a car and a tent. If you're going hiking or something then that's maybe more of a constraint on what you can feasibly transport.

It's all personal preference at the end of the day, if you're not fussed by the limitations of something like that and value the compactness more then that's cool, different strokes for different folks and all that. :)
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It is limiting but thats the compromise. Last thing I want when I'm camping is to lug around a load of equipment and then spend time setting it up. If I like the hobby when I'm at home then sure I might get some better gear but that would be limited to home. It's a great introduction to Astrophotography for not much money and thats the whole point.
 
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