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Seestar S50 — first impressions
Smart telescope
★★★★★
The reason this gallery exists in the first place. Not the telescope you buy if you want to chase every last bit of signal, but the one that gets you actually imaging tonight instead of next month.
Pros
- + Fully automated goto, plate-solving and live stacking — point it and it finds the target itself
- + Built-in light-pollution filter makes usable results possible from a back garden
- + Genuinely portable — the whole kit packs into one small case
- + Live-stacking view builds the image in real time, so you can see it working
Cons
- − Small aperture caps how much faint detail you'll pull out of dimmer targets
- − Fixed optics — no swapping cameras, filters or eyepieces
- − Processing control is limited next to a manual rig shooting raw subs