ZWO Seestar S50: YOUR Questions ANSWERED! Does this smart telescope cheat?

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Timestamps

00:00 Introduction
01:45 Fake images?
04:03 Is it a toy?
06:22 Can it deal with dew?
07:10 File management
07:58 Dithering & Stacking Overhead
09:25 Individual Subframes
11:00 Equatorial mode
13:10 Third party filters
15:11 Wind Resistance
16:00 Case Dimensions
16:37 Conclusion & Bonus questions

[CuivTheLazyGeek]

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[copasetic]

My experience has been that folks often use the label “toy” to diminish things that aren’t to their taste because it makes them feel better, in contrast, about their activities. If someone is able to use something like the Seestar to make photos that make them happy, it’s a tool that is as serious as its user, and it’s a simple kindness to just respect that perspective.

[gregerianne]

Very nice review of the issues people have raised about the SeeStar S50, Cuiv! I think the folks who bash the unit as being a toy are forgetting the intended audience. I can't even imagine how much this would have brought the wonders of the night sky to me as a child! I would venture to say that something like this that sparks the imagination of a child (or young adult!) can even change the path they take in life. A "Tool Of Your" (TOY) imagination. I had one ordered but my wife thought my granddaughters were too young yet. 🙄 Yeah, but what about me? 🤣

[lukomatico]

Great video Cuiv! - Seems like the LP filter segment matches up well with what we were talking about the other day, interesting! 😀
Can't wait to see more!

[Ed-hzum]

Great answers to some good questions! Nice to hear all this from an experienced astrophotographer. Many of these tend to bash a product like this, but it's a great (and affordable) entry into the hobby. Maybe some day. we'll dive deeper with better equipment, but for a beginner, this seems like an ideal tool to just go out and explore. We ordered one today.

[rbrickproductions]

I love seeing these smart telescopes. I love tinkering with my setup, and want to build it out, but it weighs like 60lbs! There are nights where i want to image something i can’t see from my balcony but don’t want to bring down my setup. Between harmonic drive mounts and these affordable smart telescopes i think this will drive my passion and many others up. It’s a very exciting time to be an astronomer and i love it

[tombdog]

Love the style of your videos and how your enthusiastic personality shines through. Ordered mine and will be observing from Maine, USA.

[drawntoview]

So glad I found this video! I was pretty much ready to go forward with this one but I did have a nagging concern that it might simply be using stored image data to Overlay the pictures the camera was taking. So glad you helped to spell that idea. Many thanks

[GRILL]

Wow what a great video!! We have been discussing this in our astronomy club. The equatorial mount and filter questions were some our members also thought about. We also wanted to be able to get the files for using pix insite on them.

[aw]

Super info, I have a vespera and did pre order the seestar, as you can never have enough telescopes. Convinced 3 others to order the seestar. We need more astronomy outreach. Keep up the great work

[elythomaslumber]

Got mine today 10:30AM in Germany! Did some FW updates as well as doing pictures from sun and nearby houses. Great Auto-Fokus and Sun-Tracking option. Working absolutly great!!!

[cmahar]

It makes sense that the built in filter is optimized already. It may take a while for the community to figure out which filters will produce the biggest gains.

[WilliFromEarth]

Thank you for answering all of my unposted questions 😊 !!! This is extremely helpful!

[AntonioPena]

Hello Cuiv, thanks for your second review, I ordered mine for long time but they are on back order, they sent it does to YouTubers like you, one day can use it. Thanks for sharing

[rtpman]

Thanks Cuiv. I can see me getting this for EAA at some of our club's observing session.

[keithhanssen]

I can see more of this technology becoming available in time for larger telescopes, which is a good time saving/stress relieving thing.

[shauncraven]

A comprehensive and helpful review, as always - Thank you

[marvinwhisman]

Yet another great video. Just ordered mine. Hoping I get it before Christmas.

[ChristianPsencik]

Awesome man, I just got mine too here in TX. Testing it out tonight!

[davehudson]

Excellent video!!! One more question you can ask ZWO is when are these shipping!! The community is waiting eagerly to get our hands on these and they keep delaying shipping!!! Can’t wait to get mine!! Been waiting years for this!!