Images with my Seestar S50

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The Seestar is an electronic telescope operated via a phone or tablet, you do not look through it. It knows where it is with GPS and has a database of where objects are in the sky. So you just tell it to go and find something and it does. It then tracks to keep the object in view. It takes a few seconds of an image every few seconds and stacks them up to build up the picture. This is how it can take images of feint objects. You could leave it running for hours on one object if needs be. So it can get images that otherwise need a lot of skill along with expensive and complex kit. So it is “armchair astronomy”.

Most of these here were not visible to the naked eye. Some have been cropped as the object was quite small in the picture. To get the Andromeda Galaxy image it was left running while I cooked dinner! The Elephant’s Trunk was similarly a long period.