I have tested the Vaonis Stellina, Unistellar eQuinox and eVScope, I own the Vaonis Vespera and the DWARF II and now I'm waitung for almost two months to test my S50. But the weather here in Germany is pretty bad so I was only able to test the basic functionality for a few minutes.
Just ordered mine, supposedly its on its way already! Its a great idea to have something that i can just setup for the kids and some quick deep sky work
How does this u it compare to the Vaonis vasoera? Have an old school unit, celestron nexstar gps11 but would love to jump on one of these smart telescopes.
Hi mate, thanks for tuning in...I've heard great things about the Vespera too, but the SeeStar is sooooo much cheaper, so that was my deciding factor! Lol! Have a great weekend and best wishes from Scotland! :)
Mine was in, and I had 30 minute chance to capture the moon from my kitchen table. At first a 20 minute struggle because when I asked it to go to the moon it pointed wrongly. The first capture impressed me because it looked exactly what I see in my Dobsonian with my own eyes. (I am getting older, my eyes are not like it used to be :-)) The struggle was because the compass in the S50 was pointing in the wrong way. Calibrated the compass and then within minutes it found the moon. When seeing on the PC screen at 4K it is obvious that the images is 2 MP. But on your smart phone it looks great. The battery seems to get drained faster when you slew a lot. Cloudy and rain, prevents me to test more, but one thing that strikes me is how fast you can set it up. When the cloud suddenly clears up for 30 minutes, you just grab the S50, stick it on some table and start collecting data. No pre-planning or polar alignment needed. I plan to use it when I visit friends when it is dark. Stick it their garden, fire it up and let it collect data meanwhile I am socializing. I think it needs the phone connected to it all the time to operate. And I can't seem to connect to it when it is connected to my guest network. I must connect to it directly. S50 works in, portrait mode not landscape mode.
There's been some great firmware updates coming out regularly and it's wonderful to see ZWO making relevant changes and ironing out the bugs! Hope you have great fun with it mate and thanks for tuning in! :)
@@scotiaastro I love the community. The next 2 weeks we have no clear skies expected but love to see the pictures taken by others that do have clear skies.
I don't see the SeeStar s50 as a competition to the big telescopes but as a assistance to play around when you are taking images with the big one. As a backup, to lose some time instead of gaming, or backup images in case the big one fails.
Ordered one yesterday and waiting. But I have one question: Can we also put an external filter on e.g. H-alpha filter but of better quality bypassing the internal one? With 3D printer holders of course.
Hi mate, thanks so much for tuning in and yes, one of my fellow UK Astrophotographers Lukomatico is a 3D printing wizard and has produced a host of excellent add-ons for the SeeStar S50, including a filter holder...check out his video here th-cam.com/video/ij-1AisWJRU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=38lASFV5G-8vfHSC Hope that helps! :)
@@scotiaastro I just received message that my S50 it is underway to me 🙂 It is probably going to take half a year to have some stars in the sky and no clouds. Light pollution is very bad here but with the energy crisis our lights ar off at 23h00 during the weekdays and I am curious what I can see.
Got mine about a month ago, had a few clear nights with it now. I would take a guess that I'm probably slap-bang in the middle of the demographic they're aiming for (zero astrophotography experience, minimal astronomy experience). For what I want to use it for, its perfect for me: it's light, it's small, it's easy to use, it makes seeing dimmer things very easy to do. I have a carry-on backpack I've been using to take it about with me (planning on taking it abroad to various places, and the cost of a decent peli case for one of my other 'scopes & mount & tripod was getting close to the cost of a Seestar).
It's a perfect grab and go, no fuss unit and you can certainly have great fun with it...really been enjoying the solar images and videos coming out of It! Have a fun mate and thanks for tuning in! :)
I ordered mine 11/20 from highpoint scientific and they said should ship mid December. I chose this so i can practice post-processing before i commit to $5000+ worth of a full blown astro rig, to make sure i truly enjoy the whole process.
Awesome, David! Hope you get it soon…you’re going about things the right way too…nice to dip your toe in first…but prepare for the never ending rabbit hole when you take the plunge! 🤣 Thanks for tuning in and have a great weekend!
Another question, the sensor is 2 MP, but if I take a lot of shots I assume that the resolution can become 4MP or higher? I am pretty new to astrophotography, but I learned the more snapshots (over days, weeks, years....) the better the image becomes.
It depends on the way you are imaging. If you shoot the same framing every time, your image will still have the 2MP resolution. There is technique called „drizzle“ that artificially increases the reslution. But if you individual images have a different framing (so called mosaic mode), you increase your field of view and therefor also the resolution. By taking a lot of single exposures you in fact increase the depth of your images (signal to noise ratio) what means you can reveal much more details with increasing exposure time.
@@0815mkl I don't think the s50 has mosaic mode (Because it stacks the images itself and therefore very time consuming) But it would be nice if it can be automated to create mosaic or select different targets chosen in a list.
Really looking forward to using mine, I still aim to get my Skywatcher 150PDS & EQ35 set up as a more sophisticated rig, but rather than languish on the learning Curve I think this will feed the 'need to achieve' and ease me gently in on DSO capture, plus the ease of setup is a huge plus point for those of us dodging the weather in the Borders.
Mines on order with a Canadian retailer. Since I only ordered it November 9 I’m not holding out any great hope that I will get it this year so I have to suffer through these videos. 😀 Can’t wait!! Edit…no, this is my first scope. Second actually if you don’t count the scope I bought 25 years ago and got so frustrated. I gave up right away. Lol.
I hope you received news that it’s shipping before Christmas. Seems they’re in a better place with supply to fulfill demand. Also looking forward to mine being delivered. Skies in NY have been terrible so hopefully I’ll have some dark skies then
@@dannymartinez3600 No word yet but there’s still hope. Do I need it before Christmas? No, but this recently retired geek wants his new piece of tech! 😂 Skies are also horrid over here on the Wet Coast of Canada….ATMOSPHERIC RIVER EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!! 🙄
HD (1920 x 1080) resolution sounds better than it is. You’ll have a hard time to find any smart phone with such a bad resolution. Also, the Dwarf can be used in EQ mount. Why can’t Seestar?
I can't even imagine how seestar can defeat so popular mak127 with 50mm aperture. Mak copes only with a planetary observations and ds in unreachable fot it.
You can slow down the playback speed with the app all the way down to .25x As a fellow Astro content creator I can tell you people don’t watch slower content they click off. You have to go fast. So if it is too fast for you personally, then slowing down, the playback rate is a good option.
❓QUESTION OF THE DAY: Have you tried the SeeStar S50 or any other 'smart' telescopes?
I have tested the Vaonis Stellina, Unistellar eQuinox and eVScope, I own the Vaonis Vespera and the DWARF II and now I'm waitung for almost two months to test my S50. But the weather here in Germany is pretty bad so I was only able to test the basic functionality for a few minutes.
I just got notified that mine was just shipped. I should be getting it next week. I'm totally psyched!
You'll love it! Have a fun! :)
I just got an email that my SeeStar will arrive Saturday. I’m very much looking forward to it as somebody that is new to the hobby.
Great news and have fun! :)
Woohoo, lucky you! 👍
Just ordered mine, supposedly its on its way already! Its a great idea to have something that i can just setup for the kids and some quick deep sky work
Awesome to hear mate, you'll love it! Thanks for tuning in... :)
How does this u it compare to the Vaonis vasoera? Have an old school unit, celestron nexstar gps11 but would love to jump on one of these smart telescopes.
Hi mate, thanks for tuning in...I've heard great things about the Vespera too, but the SeeStar is sooooo much cheaper, so that was my deciding factor! Lol! Have a great weekend and best wishes from Scotland! :)
Mine was in, and I had 30 minute chance to capture the moon from my kitchen table.
At first a 20 minute struggle because when I asked it to go to the moon it pointed wrongly. The first capture impressed me because it looked exactly what I see in my Dobsonian with my own eyes. (I am getting older, my eyes are not like it used to be :-))
The struggle was because the compass in the S50 was pointing in the wrong way. Calibrated the compass and then within minutes it found the moon. When seeing on the PC screen at 4K it is obvious that the images is 2 MP. But on your smart phone it looks great.
The battery seems to get drained faster when you slew a lot.
Cloudy and rain, prevents me to test more, but one thing that strikes me is how fast you can set it up. When the cloud suddenly clears up for 30 minutes, you just grab the S50, stick it on some table and start collecting data. No pre-planning or polar alignment needed.
I plan to use it when I visit friends when it is dark. Stick it their garden, fire it up and let it collect data meanwhile I am socializing.
I think it needs the phone connected to it all the time to operate.
And I can't seem to connect to it when it is connected to my guest network. I must connect to it directly.
S50 works in, portrait mode not landscape mode.
There's been some great firmware updates coming out regularly and it's wonderful to see ZWO making relevant changes and ironing out the bugs! Hope you have great fun with it mate and thanks for tuning in! :)
@@scotiaastro I love the community. The next 2 weeks we have no clear skies expected but love to see the pictures taken by others that do have clear skies.
I don't see the SeeStar s50 as a competition to the big telescopes but as a assistance to play around when you are taking images with the big one. As a backup, to lose some time instead of gaming, or backup images in case the big one fails.
Ordered one yesterday and waiting.
But I have one question: Can we also put an external filter on e.g. H-alpha filter but of better quality bypassing the internal one?
With 3D printer holders of course.
Hi mate, thanks so much for tuning in and yes, one of my fellow UK Astrophotographers Lukomatico is a 3D printing wizard and has produced a host of excellent add-ons for the SeeStar S50, including a filter holder...check out his video here th-cam.com/video/ij-1AisWJRU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=38lASFV5G-8vfHSC Hope that helps! :)
@@scotiaastro I just received message that my S50 it is underway to me 🙂
It is probably going to take half a year to have some stars in the sky and no clouds.
Light pollution is very bad here but with the energy crisis our lights ar off at 23h00 during the weekdays and I am curious what I can see.
Got mine about a month ago, had a few clear nights with it now. I would take a guess that I'm probably slap-bang in the middle of the demographic they're aiming for (zero astrophotography experience, minimal astronomy experience).
For what I want to use it for, its perfect for me: it's light, it's small, it's easy to use, it makes seeing dimmer things very easy to do.
I have a carry-on backpack I've been using to take it about with me (planning on taking it abroad to various places, and the cost of a decent peli case for one of my other 'scopes & mount & tripod was getting close to the cost of a Seestar).
It's a perfect grab and go, no fuss unit and you can certainly have great fun with it...really been enjoying the solar images and videos coming out of It! Have a fun mate and thanks for tuning in! :)
I ordered mine 11/20 from highpoint scientific and they said should ship mid December. I chose this so i can practice post-processing before i commit to $5000+ worth of a full blown astro rig, to make sure i truly enjoy the whole process.
Awesome, David! Hope you get it soon…you’re going about things the right way too…nice to dip your toe in first…but prepare for the never ending rabbit hole when you take the plunge! 🤣 Thanks for tuning in and have a great weekend!
Way to go! I ordered mine from HiPoint on 10/16. It arrives this week. I’m stoked🔭
Is the SeeStar S50 good for photographing transits of planets or International Space Station of the Sun or Moon?
Yes indeed, I haven’t tried it yet myself, but I’ve seen some cool examples here on TH-cam…👍🏻🔭📸
This is great for schools and outreach. Do you do outreach programs in Scotland? For example, right after Celtic vs Rangers game. It could be fun.
Another question, the sensor is 2 MP, but if I take a lot of shots I assume that the resolution can become 4MP or higher?
I am pretty new to astrophotography, but I learned the more snapshots (over days, weeks, years....) the better the image becomes.
It depends on the way you are imaging. If you shoot the same framing every time, your image will still have the 2MP resolution. There is technique called „drizzle“ that artificially increases the reslution. But if you individual images have a different framing (so called mosaic mode), you increase your field of view and therefor also the resolution. By taking a lot of single exposures you in fact increase the depth of your images (signal to noise ratio) what means you can reveal much more details with increasing exposure time.
@@0815mkl I don't think the s50 has mosaic mode (Because it stacks the images itself and therefore very time consuming)
But it would be nice if it can be automated to create mosaic or select different targets chosen in a list.
They said they are working on getting Mosaic update soon.
@@olafbaeyens8955 my answer was not specifically for the S50 but for how to get more MP out of a camera as this was the question.
Really looking forward to using mine, I still aim to get my Skywatcher 150PDS & EQ35 set up as a more sophisticated rig, but rather than languish on the learning Curve I think this will feed the 'need to achieve' and ease me gently in on DSO capture, plus the ease of setup is a huge plus point for those of us dodging the weather in the Borders.
Totally, mate! Glad you managed to get one with the backlogs in stock! Have fun and thanks for tuning in! :)
Mines on order with a Canadian retailer. Since I only ordered it November 9 I’m not holding out any great hope that I will get it this year so I have to suffer through these videos. 😀 Can’t wait!!
Edit…no, this is my first scope. Second actually if you don’t count the scope I bought 25 years ago and got so frustrated. I gave up right away. Lol.
Cool, you'll have a blast! Hopefully Santa will make the drop before 2024!! Have fun and thanks for tuning in... :)
I hope you received news that it’s shipping before Christmas. Seems they’re in a better place with supply to fulfill demand. Also looking forward to mine being delivered. Skies in NY have been terrible so hopefully I’ll have some dark skies then
@@dannymartinez3600 No word yet but there’s still hope. Do I need it before Christmas? No, but this recently retired geek wants his new piece of tech! 😂 Skies are also horrid over here on the Wet Coast of Canada….ATMOSPHERIC RIVER EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!! 🙄
According to Highpoint Scientific, I should get mine by the end of the month!
Great Mike! Enjoy! 😀
I received my SEASTAR today! Hoping for clear skies in the coming week.
Little bit late, but I’ve just recently got into astrophotography. I’m getting mine tomorrow!
Better late than never, mate! Have fun!! 🔭
HD (1920 x 1080) resolution sounds better than it is.
You’ll have a hard time to find any smart phone with such a bad resolution.
Also, the Dwarf can be used in EQ mount. Why can’t Seestar?
I can't even imagine how seestar can defeat so popular mak127 with 50mm aperture. Mak copes only with a planetary observations and ds in unreachable fot it.
Huh?
Slow down........
You can slow down the playback speed with the app all the way down to .25x
As a fellow Astro content creator I can tell you people don’t watch slower content they click off. You have to go fast.
So if it is too fast for you personally, then slowing down, the playback rate is a good option.
Cheers buddy! :)
Total BS!!
You need to find a different job, reviews are not your thing
the vaonis telescopes are better.
So they should be for the price of them compared to this!!! There would be a serious problem if they weren’t.