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Seestar S30 Smart Telescope

Started by Dennis Persyk , Jun 04 2025 04:34 PM

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#1 Dennis Persyk

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Posted 04 June 2025 - 04:34 PM

Has anyone had experience with this $399 telescope? I saw a video that displayed amazing astroimages. Hard to believe that is possible for $399.

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#2 rkaufmann87

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Posted 04 June 2025 - 10:56 PM

There are numerous threads on it, have you looked?

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#3 WillR

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Posted 05 June 2025 - 07:16 AM

+1. There’s a 15 page topic of photos from it near the top of this forum.

There are numerous threads on it, have you looked?

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#4 Peter Besenbruch

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Posted 05 June 2025 - 01:02 PM

Has anyone had experience with this $399 telescope? I saw a video that displayed amazing astroimages. Hard to believe that is possible for $399.

Welcome to the smart telescope forum, a better home for your question than General Observing and Astronomy. As others have explained, there are a number of threads about the Seestar S30. The unbiased executive summary: A fair number of the scopes show star trails on one side of the image, and ZWO does not consider this a defect. The S50 tends not to suffer from this. Make sure the store you buy it from has a good return policy. Another way around the issue is to shoot in mosaic mode, which is a lot slower.

In general, you can get a good idea here of what these scopes are capable of, and what people complain about.