Smart Telescopes?

murah

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Has anyone got any experience with smart telescopes? I've been looking into a few lately and they seem really interesting especially at the price points given compared to a full hobby rig

The seestar S30/50 or the dwarf 3 specifically are on my watch list.

For UK users if you've tried it how much do you actually use it considering our lovely british weather and famously clear skies :D
 
murah said:
Has anyone got any experience with smart telescopes? I've been looking into a few lately and they seem really interesting especially at the price points given compared to a full hobby rig

The seestar S30/50 or the dwarf 3 specifically are on my watch list.

For UK users if you've tried it how much do you actually use it considering our lovely british weather and famously clear skies :D
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I have a Seestar S50 as well as my other astrophotography gear and it fits in quite well. My existing gear is good quality but fairly widefield mostly due to weight and cost considerations.
I've found the Seestar useful for two main reasons, with "normal" usage the Seestar best operates for a total exposure time of about an hour because of field rotation. You rightly mention our weather and I've found that a short gap in the clouds is best exploited with the Seestar short exposure time.
I much prefer longer exposure times with my other gear although new Seestar updates can enable much longer exposures.
The other thing is the ability of the Seestar to image smaller objects because of the pixel size of its' camera so I don't feel too forlorn for not having "longer" telescopes.

Some people who are already experienced in image post processing can make wonderful smart telescope images using mostly expensive applications but even using mostly free ones ( as I do) some decent results can be obtained. HTH.

Edit:I thought I'd bore you with a few images I've made with the Seestar:
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The Eastern Veil Nebula

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The Dumbell Nebula

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The sun showing sunspot activity
 
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Got my Seestar s50 a few weeks ago and it’s been really easy to use and gotten some decent pics from it.

I am a complete amateur and have had never done any astrophotography before. It’s fast to deploy so even if you only get an hour or two break in the clouds you can get some imaging done,

Seestar have been good with updates so far, framing mode, planning mode just released and eq mode coming next.
 
@murah can I ask where you purchased from? I'm very tempted by an S50, but I can't seem to find one in stock anywhere.
(sorry for the thread revival)
 
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