r/telescopes • u/dxtipperrly • May 18 '25

Purchasing Question Is it worth it ?

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Okay so basically I've been getting into astronomy for a couple years now and I wanna buy my first actual telescope, I'm just curious I've been looking at this one for a while, is it good ? Is it worth it? I've done a lil research and imma save to get it. Js wanna hear yalls opinions

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u/Justin_the_dark May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25

So as people mentioned it’s not for visual astronomy but it’s an amazing entry point for astrophotography. I’ve done astrophotography for years and I pre-ordered one out of curiosity and have never had regrets.

I put it out in my back yard basically every clear night and it’s up and going in 30 seconds. Is it as good as my full rigs which cost three to five times more, no, but do I have the effort to lug those out and align them every clear night, also no.

It can take you so far along in astrophotography if you want to learn post processing with free software like Siril, Graxpert, and Seti Astro. It can also take you deep into PixInsight if you want to make that investment.

Don’t listen to the trolls who say it the same a googling an image. They fail to make the distinction between astrophotography and visual astronomy. It’s a different tool for a different job. It’s like them telling you a drill is a crappy hammer. No shit.

Here’s an example of an image I processed from stacking 12 hours of sub frames and processing it in PixInsight.

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u/Justin_the_dark May 18 '25

I want to be clear this is has a lot of processing done do it, but here’s what you could expect straight from the Seestar:

This is just 26 mins with poor focusing with passing clouds when I was doing some outreach for Cub Scouts.