Taken Aug 9th from a SeeStar S30 pro. About 90 minutes of exposure. Enhanced through SeeStar app.

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[–] [S] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

It's something I've only just got into a couple months ago. Smart telescope make it very accessible.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 months ago*

    They could, however smart telescopes like the one I use can detect those artifacts and discard the image that contains them.

    It works by taking 10sec exposures over the course of an hour or whatever length of time. Those images are stacked on top of each other to pull out the image before it's enhanced. This image here was about 300 stacked image exposures for example.

    The images taken by the telescope aren't exactly images in the way you expect them either...

    The images are in .FITS which hold image data. Those files are loaded into software to create an image, and exported as tiffs, png or jpegs generally...

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (2 children)

    I saw the smart ones, then saw the price, then cobbled my own non smart one from different parts, and now I have a new appreciation for precision optics haha

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I've seen some 3d printed scopes that look really cool, don't know how well they work, is it anything like that?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Mine is basically a Newtonian on a motorized equatorial mount but instead of being one off the shelf its a combination of different pieces. I have heard about 3d printed ones but I haven't looked into them at all. I'd be less concerned with the 3d printing itself and just getting the right lenses or mirrors. I've seen some very impressive diy ones before that are basically just a long 2x4 on a seesaw and a couple lenses without tubes, those are great for being ultra cheap and allowing you to view stuff but they won't work well for imaging...for imaging I'd rather put together a fancy system like a cassegrain on a motorized equatorial mount with gpd and goto and astro camera and such but that requires some additional devices and a laptop and a different telescope from mine currently so I'd have to rework the whole thing, which is definitely doable now that I know what I'd be more interested in for the future but that's effort haha.

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