DDL-TW2 Smart Telescope By BeaverLab

A company called Beaver lab got in touch with me and asked if I would like to take a look at there latest product the DDL- TW2 smart telescope, and I have to say with hand on heart it's one of the easiest smart telescopes I've ever had the pleasure to use.

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[Broshan]

Hey Small Optics, I hope you are doing well and that you are healthy. I love your videos and I hope you will continue to make videos if possible. Your videos are great for ambitious beginners and are really helpful. I want to thank you in the name of the entire community and keep going, you are explaining it in ways so newbies would understand and your other videos are great. I cannot thank you enough for all of your videos. Hope you are doing well and having a great day/night. You have helped a ton of beginners into getting in this amazing hobby, keep going!

[stay_at_home_astronaut]

It looks like this is an rig. This will be a fun piece of equipment, especially for those people who cannot/will not look through an eyepiece.

[shaunmk]

uuummm interesting... the new dwarf 3 looks interesting too..thou for myself not much of an upgrade, still prefer my seestar ...great video, look forward to seeing some real time use, day time and night time

[tomreid]

What a great wee piece of kit Jason, an ideal way into astronomy.
Its so easy to be negative about new products, but i can see the many benefits this wee scope has.
Id still like to know how much it costs though.

[Vic-eq]

Its like a new version of my st80 and 600d.have the d2 and just ordered the s50.smart telescopes are the future even though I have a 16" dob.clear skies Jason

[xvossx]

Thanks for the overview! Can't wait till mine arrives!

[charles]

Hi Jason, I and many others I guess, would be interested in your experience of using this in the field.
Does it live up to your expectations and enthusiasm of it? Do you have any images taken with it you could share.
A follow up video would be extremely useful. Thanks

[mkl]

Does the camera do anything special in supporting astronomy? Like help finding objects, do platesolving, identify objects? Or is it just a camera with a display and some memeory? As the telescope needs to be manually pointed to an object and need to follow the movement by hand, a beginner might struggle with that and support from a "smart" system could help here.

[AdrianCiobanu-ee]

Hey did you do any DSO tests? What is the longest exposure you can take with it? Is stacking possible?

[richardkeen]

hmm looks good but not being able to add a new finder would be a cross in the box... reason is the tripod doesn't look very tall so finding objects which is high up in near the zenith would be really hard with a straight through red dot finder and that size tripod ...would need to be able to add a right angle finder to help out with that but you cant with this scope

[jrrarglblarg]

I’ve been taught that manually pointed telescopes on an altazimuth mount are for birdwatching, not astronomy.

[_TK-_]

just sell the camera and slap it on your GOTO scope so it can track and take images. turn your current scope into a semi smart scope

[robertsonsid]

Without tracking it won't be good for DSO's. It has no slow-motion controls. Jupiter and Saturn will be very tiny if that is the moon shot. Can it focus or is it fixed focus?

[fastbow]

Looks like PRICE will be the determining factor!

[sammadonline]

I dont know. For that price a Dwarf 2 or a Seestar would be a much better option.

[dredredringoproject]

wondering how planets like Saturday in Jupiter look in this any place I can find images?

[hunterofficial]

Man, what is a beaver doing in a lab?

[paullewis]

Just wondering what makes this a smart Telescope and why anyone would buy it Jason, it also looks so bulky. Maybe taking photographs of the planets, but ?. Does it find DSO objects, then track, take and stack photographs. My Dwarf 2 which ive had for 18 months literally does everything including stacking up to 999 subs, it now has a star atlas included following the latest updates. Dwarf 3 is coming along shortly. Ive not got a Seestar s50 but looks a brilliant piece of kit much better than this.I just don't see it However, would be interesting to see your next Video of this scope.

[gerardfrensen]

The pictures shown look very blurry to me, with my Seestar I get better pictures of the moon and the sun, and as an extra bonus I can take pictures of nebula and galaxies too! And I think that little scope is a lot more smart then this camera is...

[wildyorkieoutdoors]

Can you see the flag on the moon LOL on the first landing? maybe flag has deteriorated over the decades and no longer visible and just the pole left that flag was attached to back in the day 😬