I made the little seestar do some deep sky objects over night last night. I ran into a possible bug when trying to set up my original larger mosaic target, so instead I picked a few separate ones.
The horse head nebula; Markarians Chain in the Virgo cluster; the Leo Triplet of galaxies and Omega Centauri.
Because I dont have a tilting mount head for it (yet) I used alt-az mode, which means the field of view rotates over time, which is why the corners all look so rubbish :-)
Captured this image of M66 last night, turned out ok! #astrophotography #seestars50 #seestar
More images from last night.
First is Jupiter and a few of its moons.
Second is M 78, also known as NGC 2068, a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion, 1350 light years away. It is also known as the Casper the friendly ghost nebula.
Third photo are of the Pleiades. The Pleiades are visible with the naked eye and are about 444 light years away.
I am really, really curious if the Seestar S50 holds true to its promises.
Who’s a cute little galactic floof? You are NGC 898, that’s who! #astrophotography #astrodon #seestar
This is a fun one. NGC 891 is a spiral galaxy directly edge-on to us, showing a prominent dust lane. It’s very similar to our galaxy. I framed it this way to capture a few more faint NG Catalog galaxies in the upper-left, but when I annotated the image, the sheer number of other galaxies was overwhelming. Flip back and forth to see if you can pick out the faint fuzzy patches, each one a whole galaxy. About 1.25 hours of exposure. #astrophotography #astrodon #seestar
M45 Pleiades / Seven Sisters.
Seestar S50.
250mm, f5, 612 exposures of 10’’.
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Just got a few minutes on the Pleiades last week. The reflection nebula is such a beautiful thing. I’ll come back to this with a mosaic and proper integration time later. #astrophotography #astrodon #seestar
I had to plate solve this and stare at some star chart software for a good long while before I was sure what was what. #astrophotography #astrodon #seestar
For fun once some clouds obscured what I was planning to look at, I pointed my scope at Uranus (stop it) for just over a minute to see if it could resolve any moons. Turns out it can! #astrophotography
#astrodon #seestar
My #Seestar S50 braved the cold for me the other night, and 20 minutes on M42 had a good result. #astrophotography 
Had a go at reprocessing M42 from the raw frames. Probably a bit overcooked, but I’m in the steep part of the (re-)learning curve. #seestar
Couple quick photos from my first try with new little telescope last night. The horsehead is real quick, like 5-6 min total exposure, needs like an hour. M42 was a good 45 min total exposure and I’ll want to reprocess it from the raw stacked frames at some point. The third thing is a terrible shot of Uranus (too close to the moon), but I’d never imaged or seen it before.
Poor seeing, weak focus, big moon, but I’m still pleased.
Interesting. The left half of the sun was taken back in early July, near aphelion. The right, today at perihelion. A noticeable difference in size (to the telescope, of course). Also, for some reason after the last update, the Seestar records the sun as greenish. #Astronomy #Seestar #Sun
Not my usual sorta post, but I was tinkering with my new smart #telescope and I got this photo from it.
The moon just now. 28% and waxing #Aberdeenshire #Scotland #Seestar #Lunar
So are any serious astrophotographers thinking about getting a ZWO Seestar S50? What kind of projects do you have in mind? #astrophotography #astronomy #seestar.
