Category: Astrophotography

The North America Nebula has been on my list for a while. It’s one of those targets I suspected would be a genuinely good fit for the S30 Pro, and after this session I can say that hunch was right. This one also ended up being a milestone for me in a few ways —…

The Beehive Cluster is a great target, and it turned out to be one of the better fits I’ve found for the SeeStar S30 Pro so far. It’s elegant, large, and you can get some good practice capturing colorful stars. Here’s how the session went. Photo Details About the Target M44 sits about 600 light…

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…

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.…

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…