After having basic camera setups with simple trackers, I was gifted a seestar s30. Closed in back yard has a small area that isn't covered in trees but has a perfect view of Orion. Going to let it run as long as I dare tonight and pull the fits files to import into siril and do a proper stacking but the apps stacking after only fifteen minutes is already making me excited for what I can pull out of it with an hour+ integration time.

Now if the clouds and fog stay away long enough for me to get quality subs, I'll be a happy night owl

Edit: cloud bank came rolling in shortly afterwards. Will have better seeing the next few nights so hopefully will be able to get a lot more time to help clear up the noise and improve detail. Fifteen minutes is nowhere near enough

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[–] 2 points 10 months ago

I just gifted my nephews an S30 too and those kids lost their minds. As did my brother-in-law and my dad.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Is that a star in that little left nebula?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    I was given an S50 for Christmas.

    Where we were staying was fortunately right on the edge of suburbia and it was a clear night, plopped it down on the deck and apparently we're twins? Because the first picture I took was also Orion.

    (this was only a couple of minutes, so doesn't look amazing)

    None

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    How do you pull the FITS from these. I just got an S50 and it only gives me a JPEG.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    In the advanced features option, you're looking for "save each frame" That'll allow the seestar to have each frame in fits format saved to the folder {target}_sub

    Connect a pc to the seestar and you'll find the folder under the My Works folder

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