Seestar S50

[Cyclone]

With the clear skies we've had lately, I finally got the Seestar out to take a few astro pictures. This is the Orion Nebula, with 19 mins (114 x 10 second exposures) worth of data.

The Seestar stacks the images to give you a .fits file, or it can save the fits on every frame giving you the chance to stack them yourself. (You also get a copy of the image in jpg form on your phone/tablet).

This was then run through AstroCooker and then touched up in lightroom.

For it's size the Seestar S50 is very impressive. Long may the clear skies continue.

 

[Buddy]

Quite impressive for an all in one. I spent last night researching astrophotography.

Tempted: something new to try and learn

Putting me off : I live in London lol

 

[Cyclone]

Quite impressive for an all in one. I spent last night researching astrophotography.

Tempted: something new to try and learn

Putting me off : I live in London lol

Are you talking about London light pollution? The Seestar has a light pollution filter built in

*edit*
Another image from last night - Whirlpool Galaxy 10 mins (60 x 10 secs)

 

[Buddy]

Yes that's what I'm worried about. I'd love to get some images- print and frame. However, managing my expectations- noise/ light pollution / image quality vs gear.

 

[Ryan-3]

Very impressive images!

Tempted to grab a light pollution filter for my widest lens and see the difference it makes!

 

[.one.]

I live in the fens and things are blacker than a black thing.

 

[Cyclone]

Had a go at the 12P/Pons–Brooks comet. Comes around every 70 odd years or so.

It starts to fade in 3-4 weeks, so I will try again before then.

 

[Cyclone]

Eastern Veil Nebula (NGC 6992), made with 357 stacked images collected over 4 nights. My editing skills aren't that great, had difficulty removing the noise in the image while still keeping the detail of the Nebula.

The Eastern Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation of Cygnus and is located at around 1470 light-years from Earth. It is part of the Cygnus Loop which is a faint supernova remnant that exploded approximately 7000 years ago.

 

[Rannoch]

Try M16 if you can. You should be able to see The Pillars of Creation.

 

[Cyclone]

Try M16 if you can. You should be able to see The Pillars of Creation.

Yeah that's on my list. I've seen some good pictures of it done with the Seestar.

 

[Cyclone]

Horsehead Nebula, part of the Orion Constellation.

 

[benneh]

Amazing. What kind of processing power are we talking for image stacking/processing? (assuming you're a PC user). The 6700k in your sig, op?

 

[Cyclone]

Amazing. What kind of processing power are we talking for image stacking/processing? (assuming you're a PC user). The 6700k in your sig, op?

Yes using the 6700k and stacking in Siril. Took about 10 minutes to stack with a script. I haven't tried the manual way yet tho

 

[Cyclone]

The Crescent Nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 5000 light-years away from Earth. The Nebula itself is 25 light-years across. One light-year is about 6 trillion miles.

550 20 second exposures.

*edit* Is there a way of making the forum display the images in the correct size? This one is much bigger than what it should be

 

[Berserker]

*edit* Is there a way of making the forum display the images in the correct size? This one is much bigger than what it should be

Some BBCode implementations allow you to specify width and height in the [ img ] tag. No idea if this forum is one of those.

Had my S50 over a year now and still enjoy it. Since EQ mode launched I've got 1-hour stacks on several targets from home, and 20 minutes on NGC 6992 from a relatively dark site (was with friends so couldn't do more). That'll give me some data to work with when I get around to playing with SiriL again.

 

[Cyclone]

Some BBCode implementations allow you to specify width and height in the [ img ] tag. No idea if this forum is one of those.

Had my S50 over a year now and still enjoy it. Since EQ mode launched I've got 1-hour stacks on several targets from home, and 20 minutes on NGC 6992 from a relatively dark site (was with friends so couldn't do more). That'll give me some data to work with when I get around to playing with SiriL again.

Thanks for the bbcode info, I'll have a look into that.

I'm doing M16 (Eagle Nebula) at the moment. Have about 300 20 seconds exp and need to get lots more. Working nights has it's advantages

*edit* I don't know if this is any use to you, or anyone else with a smart scope. It popped up on FB