Hey Small Optics, I hope you are doing well and that you are healthy. I love your videos and I hope you will continue to make videos if possible. Your videos are great for ambitious beginners and are really helpful. I want to thank you in the name of the entire community and keep going, you are explaining it in ways so newbies would understand and your other videos are great. I cannot thank you enough for all of your videos. Hope you are doing well and having a great day/night. You have helped a ton of beginners into getting in this amazing hobby, keep going!
It looks like this is an Alt-Az-Push-To-With-Plate-Solving rig. This will be a fun piece of equipment, especially for those people who cannot/will not look through an eyepiece.
Hi Jason, I and many others I guess, would be interested in your experience of using this in the field. Does it live up to your expectations and enthusiasm of it? Do you have any images taken with it you could share. A follow up video would be extremely useful. Thanks
uuummm interesting... the new dwarf 3 looks interesting too..thou for myself not much of an upgrade, still prefer my seestar ...great video, look forward to seeing some real time use, day time and night time
What a great wee piece of kit Jason, an ideal way into astronomy. Its so easy to be negative about new products, but i can see the many benefits this wee scope has. Id still like to know how much it costs though.
Does the camera do anything special in supporting astronomy? Like help finding objects, do platesolving, identify objects? Or is it just a camera with a display and some memeory? As the telescope needs to be manually pointed to an object and need to follow the movement by hand, a beginner might struggle with that and support from a "smart" system could help here.
Its like a new version of my st80 and 600d.have the d2 and just ordered the s50.smart telescopes are the future even though I have a 16" dob.clear skies Jason
Without auto tracking it cannot do DSO. Get a smart telescope loke dwarf2, dwarf3 or seestar s50 for DSO. They are automated and really called smart telescope then this manual scope
@@limw9587 yeah i am aware. I already have a telescope that can track. I was thinking of using just the camera not the telescope. Having that with a screen could be really nice if it would work for long term exposure.
I'm wondering the same thing. If you can take the camera out, put it on a tracking dobsonian, you'd have a pretty solid setup for outreach, if it can do longer exposures (even just 15-30 seconds would be workable). Real bonus if it could stack exposures.
hmm looks good but not being able to add a new finder would be a cross in the box... reason is the tripod doesn't look very tall so finding objects which is high up in near the zenith would be really hard with a straight through red dot finder and that size tripod ...would need to be able to add a right angle finder to help out with that but you cant with this scope
Without tracking it won't be good for DSO's. It has no slow-motion controls. Jupiter and Saturn will be very tiny if that is the moon shot. Can it focus or is it fixed focus?
I've been swinging a short tube altaz refractor around the skies for years. It's absolutely fine at low power views admiring star fields. But if you are going to zoom in on a planet, it becomes a bit more finicky than a equatorial - but still not impossible.
@@NewbFixer :Shrug: If you say so. I was also taught not to hit nails with a crescent wrench, but it kinda works sometimes, if you’re willing to use an imperfect tool and imperfect results are acceptable.
Just wondering what makes this a smart Telescope and why anyone would buy it Jason, it also looks so bulky. Maybe taking photographs of the planets, but ?. Does it find DSO objects, then track, take and stack photographs. My Dwarf 2 which ive had for 18 months literally does everything including stacking up to 999 subs, it now has a star atlas included following the latest updates. Dwarf 3 is coming along shortly. Ive not got a Seestar s50 but looks a brilliant piece of kit much better than this.I just don't see it However, would be interesting to see your next Video of this scope.
Yep. I have a dwarf 2 and seestar s50. Have ordered a dwarf 3. They are really called smart telescope. This scope is a manual scope to be honest, with just some fancy gadget like the cam.
Can you see the flag on the moon LOL on the first landing? maybe flag has deteriorated over the decades and no longer visible and just the pole left that flag was attached to back in the day 😬
The pictures shown look very blurry to me, with my Seestar I get better pictures of the moon and the sun, and as an extra bonus I can take pictures of nebula and galaxies too! And I think that little scope is a lot more smart then this camera is...
I must confess, although I have never owned one, I'm not a fan of smart telescopes as I prefer the impromptu nature of stargazing often dictated by the weather, where you are,etc.
Hey Small Optics, I hope you are doing well and that you are healthy. I love your videos and I hope you will continue to make videos if possible. Your videos are great for ambitious beginners and are really helpful. I want to thank you in the name of the entire community and keep going, you are explaining it in ways so newbies would understand and your other videos are great. I cannot thank you enough for all of your videos. Hope you are doing well and having a great day/night. You have helped a ton of beginners into getting in this amazing hobby, keep going!
Thanks for the overview! Can't wait till mine arrives!
How much does it retail for mate
Good job mate. Well produced.
It looks like this is an Alt-Az-Push-To-With-Plate-Solving rig. This will be a fun piece of equipment, especially for those people who cannot/will not look through an eyepiece.
Hi Jason, I and many others I guess, would be interested in your experience of using this in the field.
Does it live up to your expectations and enthusiasm of it? Do you have any images taken with it you could share.
A follow up video would be extremely useful. Thanks
Nice review Professor Jason.
Nice. Thanks for the review.
uuummm interesting... the new dwarf 3 looks interesting too..thou for myself not much of an upgrade, still prefer my seestar ...great video, look forward to seeing some real time use, day time and night time
i wouldnt replace my seestar except with another seestar😂
What a great wee piece of kit Jason, an ideal way into astronomy.
Its so easy to be negative about new products, but i can see the many benefits this wee scope has.
Id still like to know how much it costs though.
Does the camera do anything special in supporting astronomy? Like help finding objects, do platesolving, identify objects? Or is it just a camera with a display and some memeory? As the telescope needs to be manually pointed to an object and need to follow the movement by hand, a beginner might struggle with that and support from a "smart" system could help here.
Its like a new version of my st80 and 600d.have the d2 and just ordered the s50.smart telescopes are the future even though I have a 16" dob.clear skies Jason
wondering how planets like Saturday in Jupiter look in this any place I can find images?
Hey did you do any DSO tests? What is the longest exposure you can take with it? Is stacking possible?
Without auto tracking it cannot do DSO. Get a smart telescope loke dwarf2, dwarf3 or seestar s50 for DSO. They are automated and really called smart telescope then this manual scope
@@limw9587 yeah i am aware. I already have a telescope that can track. I was thinking of using just the camera not the telescope. Having that with a screen could be really nice if it would work for long term exposure.
I'm wondering the same thing. If you can take the camera out, put it on a tracking dobsonian, you'd have a pretty solid setup for outreach, if it can do longer exposures (even just 15-30 seconds would be workable). Real bonus if it could stack exposures.
hmm looks good but not being able to add a new finder would be a cross in the box... reason is the tripod doesn't look very tall so finding objects which is high up in near the zenith would be really hard with a straight through red dot finder and that size tripod ...would need to be able to add a right angle finder to help out with that but you cant with this scope
Without tracking it won't be good for DSO's. It has no slow-motion controls. Jupiter and Saturn will be very tiny if that is the moon shot. Can it focus or is it fixed focus?
I want one!!
I dont know. For that price a Dwarf 2 or a Seestar would be a much better option.
Interesting 🧐
I am more excited about the camera.
??? Shouldn't the spotter scope be on the left side of the scope ... and the focusing control on the right-hand side ???
He's in the UK. :)
I am left eye dominant 😊
I prefer the finder on right side
Looks like PRICE will be the determining factor!
Interesting.
just sell the camera and slap it on your GOTO scope so it can track and take images. turn your current scope into a semi smart scope
I’ve been taught that manually pointed telescopes on an altazimuth mount are for birdwatching, not astronomy.
I've been swinging a short tube altaz refractor around the skies for years. It's absolutely fine at low power views admiring star fields. But if you are going to zoom in on a planet, it becomes a bit more finicky than a equatorial - but still not impossible.
very narrow minded teacher you have buddy.
@@NewbFixer :Shrug: If you say so. I was also taught not to hit nails with a crescent wrench, but it kinda works sometimes, if you’re willing to use an imperfect tool and imperfect results are acceptable.
Just wondering what makes this a smart Telescope and why anyone would buy it Jason, it also looks so bulky. Maybe taking photographs of the planets, but ?. Does it find DSO objects, then track, take and stack photographs. My Dwarf 2 which ive had for 18 months literally does everything including stacking up to 999 subs, it now has a star atlas included following the latest updates. Dwarf 3 is coming along shortly. Ive not got a Seestar s50 but looks a brilliant piece of kit much better than this.I just don't see it However, would be interesting to see your next Video of this scope.
Yep. I have a dwarf 2 and seestar s50. Have ordered a dwarf 3. They are really called smart telescope. This scope is a manual scope to be honest, with just some fancy gadget like the cam.
Can you see the flag on the moon LOL on the first landing? maybe flag has deteriorated over the decades and no longer visible and just the pole left that flag was attached to back in the day 😬
$?
I saw a beaver 🦫
Man, what is a beaver doing in a lab?
either getting tested on or eatin
The pictures shown look very blurry to me, with my Seestar I get better pictures of the moon and the sun, and as an extra bonus I can take pictures of nebula and galaxies too! And I think that little scope is a lot more smart then this camera is...
This is going to be very limited for night objects with no tracking and stacking of images. Give me the Seestar anyday.
I must confess, although I have never owned one, I'm not a fan of smart telescopes as I prefer the impromptu nature of stargazing often dictated by the weather, where you are,etc.
good video...calling it a smart telescope is a bit of a stretch
AI enhanced camera 🤔 didn’t the Samsung phone have the same where it enhanced the image of the moon using AI enhancing.
Won't get good night photo without having tracking system
do an ssestar s50 jason 100 times better than that.
?😂