Take the first step in exploring the universe! The Seestar smart telescope will give you a stargazing experience like never before. No need for professional guidance, just tap on the screen and you are ready to observe and capture the stars.
Seestar is a smart device that integrates the functions of an altazimuth mount, telescope, and camera, with both hardware and software applications. With the Seestar App, you can easily control this multifunctional device and explore the infinite world of stars.
Key features:
- Wireless control: Control with Seestar device through wireless connection.
- Stargazing Mode: Automatically find and focus on celestial objects, intelligently identify stars and track them for automatic capturing and image processing.
- Solar Mode: Support auto-scan and solar tracking. Use the included Solar Filter to observe the unique sun.
- Scenery mode: Manually control the telescope direction and auto-focus, so you can enjoy observing birds and landscapes.
-Sky Atlas: Built-in curated celestial object database AND a rich astronomical knowledge encyclopedia,help you easily understand the mystery of starry sky.
- Stargazing Index forecasts and popular Recommendations: Stay updated with popular information, making you an expert in astronomical events.
- Share Your Work in the Square: Engage and exchange insights with astronomy enthusiasts from around the world, showcasing your observational achievements.
- Adaptation Model: It will work with all Seestar models.
Seestar is your ideal companion for exploring the universe, observing the stars and sharing experiences. Download Seestar App now and Explore the universe with Seestar.
The app is well written. The UX is generally great. UX Improvement: allow the user to toggle LP filter, exposure time, and setup framing before the camera moves to the selected location. Otherwise, the user must cancel after getting to the object, make the selections, and then hit record again.After balancing and calibrating EQ mode with the current app version, I am routinely getting 40% stack rates while all of the others are rejections. Online, I’m seeing a TON of other experienced astrophotographers complain of high rejection rates all of a sudden just like me. I’m using a high end latitude wedge (Move Shoot Move).
Seestar S50 is a fantastic product
GJCarter
Sometimes big surprises come in small packages. The ZWO Seestar is one of those pleasant surprises. I’m an experienced amateur astronomer and have or used many types of visual and photographic Astro gear. ZWO have really put together an award-worthy product with the S50. It combines the image quality of an Apochromatic objective and a decent imaging sensor along with application software that assists in navigation to find objects in the night sky and perform live image stacking to capture and display pictures that the human eye cannot see naked-eye. It is easy to setup and use even if you are not experienced in astronomical pursuits.Like any technological tool the ZWO Seestar S50 has its shortfalls and limitations. The ZWO developers are enhancing the app to address the shortcomings and to add new functionality. There are several helpful user groups that provide tremendous support to the user community. It’s a fun way to spend time out under the night sky!
Outstanding system with a caveat
Gfpguy1
UI is extremely easy to learn and use right out of the box. The main suggestion is to include some backlash compensation in software. System dithers scope pointing direction by several pixels to avoid developing pattern and walking noise every 5 frames. After many of the dithers, altitude tracking doesn’t immediately resume due to backlash in drive train. Up to 30% of the frames taken end up being thrown out adding to overhead. You might accumulate 10 min of stacked data for 25 min of collection. Hopefully ZWO will address the backlash. It’s not clear if all the copies of the S50 scope have this issue and to this extent, but many folks have discussed on Cloudy Nights. Backlash is the only complaint I have. Otherwise, a beautiful scope and excellent software.
Nice app but one major flaw in version 1.8.0.
faa440
The app is a great companion to the Seestar S50. It does a nice job helping you identify the object you want to view and then actually getting the S50 to that object. The major is that my iPhone 13 Pro Max continually fails in trying to connect to the Seestar S50. The workaround is to turn off cellular data in the Seestar app settings under the iPhone settings icon. At that point I believe you can control the S50, but then, you cannot access the Internet because the cellular data is turned off. In addition, it’s not easy to get a hold of their tech-support, nor the tech-support of the company from which I bought the S50. Hopefully ZWO will get this straightened out.
Optimizations
-Fixed an issue where Moon stacking occasionally showed a purple color cast on some devices
Version 3.1.2
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Information
Seller
SuZhou ZWO Co., Ltd.
Size
1.3 GB
Category
Photo & Video
Compatibility
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 8 more
English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
