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

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    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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