Author: Daniel
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What Beginners Need to Know About the Zenith: Your Neck Will Thank You Later
If you’ve done some stargazing you probably know the feeling. You’re out in the backyard, it’s dark, it’s quiet, and you’ve just spotted a target overhead. So you tilt your head back. Then a little further back. Then further still, until you’re basically staring straight up at the sky with your mouth hanging open. Three…
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SeeStar S30 Pro Capture: M81 (Bode’s Galaxy)
I finally got a proper (well, mostly proper) long session in with the SeeStar S30 Pro — eight hours pointed at M81, Bode’s Galaxy. Not perfectly executed by any means, but enough time to push the scope harder than I had before and learn a few things in the process. Here’s what came out of…
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Is a Smart Telescope Worth It?
Before we get into who these telescopes are and aren’t for, it’s worth explaining what we actually mean by a smart telescope, because the term gets used in a few different ways. At the broadest level, it can refer to any telescope that uses technology to assist with finding or tracking objects. But increasingly, the…
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SeeStar S30 Pro Capture: The Sun & 5 Sunspots (Aires)
Like most telescopes, the SeeStar S30 Pro is known for what it can do after dark. But after a nice night with M13, I found myself wanting to get my telescope fix in the middle of the day, so I decided to point it at the one target bright enough to see in broad daylight.…
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SeeStar S30 Pro Capture: M13 (Great Globular Cluster in Hercules)
I finally got my first chance to take the SeeStar S30 Pro out for a proper run — and the conditions were far from ideal. Bortle 7 suburban skies, very humid, a few clouds drifting through. Very different from the Arizona conditions I’m familiar with. I set it up anyway. Because the only way to…