Is this the BEST $349 TELESCOPE EVER? Seestar S30 Review 🌟🔭

[@DamonScotting]

Click here to check out the Seestar S30 for yourself: store.seestar.com/DAMON I'm really excited by this tiny powerful telescope! I was fortunate enough last night to have some clear skies that meant I could be one of the first people on the planet to try it out. It did not disappoint! Even beneath a Full Moon it's taken some pretty spectacular images for a $349 Telescope! I'll be posting a video comparing it vs the S50 over the weekend as well as a video detailing how you can make amazing edits to your photos for free, in less than 2 minutes! Stay tuned and clear skies! :)

[@Tatothe_staticpotato]

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[@leo_ohara]

Super hyped for that! I’ve just started with astronomy since I just joined the Astronomy club at college. So far we’ve used 8in and 6in conventional telescopes and I was wondering how this would compare? I live quite near to London so the light pollution is intense to say the least.

[@luboinchina3013]

I was thinking about ordering one and selling the S50 because if its narrow field of view, but the new firmware and ability to stack mosaic wider field of view saved the trusty "old" S50. Now I can image the Orion with The Running man nebula and still have some space left on the sides, making it more beautiful bigger resolution, easier to crop, photo. Also Andromeda and pleaides can now actually fit in😃

[@hypercake9360]

Spectacular!! As someone who has been passionate about astronomy from a young age, I've finally decided to take the plunge into amateur astrophotography. This telescope looks like the one for me!

[@EvilUnderTone]

I have the S50. For the money it's amazing. They are great for beginners too in teaching them the night skies. You'll obviously have folk who'd rather use more conventional scopes and I get that but these are super portable and take less than a couple of minutes to setup and start using.

[@omwtoellieandmasonhouse]

im so happy you posted this, im looking to get this and you are my go to for reviews lol

[@omwtoellieandmasonhouse]

gonna have to wait until christmas but im so excited

[@SfIsCool]

@@omwtoellieandmasonhouse you have every right to be excited :) im getting a skywatcher 150p virtuoso for christmas (since i like visual and my family doesnt care if its astrophotography), and im expecting you to upload what you see with the telescope

[@evrybodyjam25]

Awesome!!! Im so looking forward to the editing video. Love my s50, and I really want to get better at editing my photos

[@luboinchina3013]

I saw in their chat groups that S30 now could now track airplanes and rocket launches? Could you check it out please?

[@KingsMom831]

I like that it’s small, easy to transport, minimal… Thanks Damon!

[@stormchaser_dan4293]

im getting this for Christmas first time owning a proper telescope

[@DpacOP]

@@stormchaser_dan4293 I’m looking for a store to go in and get one 😭

[@Mr_Glenn]

The Dwarf 3 is better in every way, you might want to look into that. The wait time is long, but the quality of the images speak for themselves.

[@MadalynR20x]

@@Mr_Glenn nah mate ive done my research and dwarf 3 isnt that good image quality wise im sticking with the S30

[@MadalynR20x]

@@Mr_Glenn its already been preordered

[@MadalynR20x]

@@Mr_Glenn plus dwarf3 is out of my budget

[@pdk60]

Just come in from attempting to image with my S50 only to have the clouds roll in; so this video was good timing. The S30 looks to be a great little scope. Looking forward to the image editing video, as I struggle with that.

[@JoseNavarroCo]

Great video, Damon. One thing that was missed is the incredible active tracking. You can actually track planes and cars and stack the images. The dispensable nature of these telescopes is the downside. However, what our current deep sky mounts lack is active tracking of larger objects.

[@nightwaves3203]

Good luck on that clear skies. It's not happening here for a long time.

[@brizzle3903]

Even with the cloudy-ish skies he dealt with in this video he snapped some INCREDIBLE photos with that It’s unbelievable that something like this exists

[@waynewheaton3210]

Thanks for the review. It will be nice to see what the S30 can do under clear skies. The times are changing in AP.

[@davidstearn1342]

I was going to buy the S30 but the larger S50 collects more light and has more detailed resolution . The software is the same for both including the framing feature. While the wider FOV is attracted with a smaller aperture the detail will be less.

[@hgfghn371]

Hola. Tengo el S50 y creo que hace mucho mejores fotografías que el S30. Yo no me compraría el S30, aunque sea un poco mas pequeño y barato yo creo que es peor que el S50. El S50 con el modo mosaico puede fotografiar completamente la Galaxia de andrómeda, , la espada de Orión completa, la Roseta y todo el campo de Orión en cabeza de caballo con el árbol en llamas completamente , estos son objetos de los mas grandes en el Cielo y con la resolución del S50 de 2´5 segundos de arco, que es mucho mas que los 4´3 segundos de resolución que tiene el S30. Esta es mi opinión después de ver los resultados. de los dos modelos. Saludos

[@JustRollin]

S30 has a better sensor Imx462 vs Imx662

[@davidstearn1342]

@@JustRollinIt had less read noise and is more light sensitive. But, the S50 collects more light than the S30. You will get a larger FOV with the S30 but less image detail and the wider FOV will only be of benefit for a few objects. The differences in the sensors are not significant in terms of the image quality after processing. The larger aperture will always be the major advantage of the S50.

[@pompeymonkey3271]

What an amazing piece of technology that can automatedly produce images that would have been worthy of a glossy coffee-table book from less than 20 years ago. I do have many thoughts on this kind of product, but I really can't be arsed to go into them all right now. lol On balance, I think most of these will end up at the back of a cupboard gathering dust until they are thrown out with the rubbish. Simply because they will be regarded as "toys", unless they happen upon a user that really wants to exploit it... And that is really sad, given how incredible the capabilities are. Thanks for posting a nice honest review.

[@Georgeolddrones]

Brilliant video thanks Damon 👍🔭

[@salvadormagdaleno176]

Thanks for this great video. Thinking to buy it

[@CosmonianExplorer]

Hello, ive been watching you for a while now, and am wandering if you could review a telescope am getting? It is the classic 8' dobsonian 200p. Thank you

[@Mantooth2851]

There are tons of 8 inch Dob reviews out there. Chances are yours has been reviewed before. That said, an 8in Dob is the perfect size of the bunch. A 6in, in my opinion, is on the small size. While the 10in can get a little bulky and cumbersome to move. The 8in is the best of both worlds since it hits the sweet spot.

[@paddledogs]

Amazing shots. I'm hoping you'll try some planetary/moon soon.

[@Drazorig2]

Am considering this or the Dwarf 3, which has a great fov.

[@asingularhuman]

I'd recommend this over the d3, mostly because the app is much better, it has a built in lp filter, mosaic mode, and a larger aperture. The only real pro the dwarf 3 has is widefield shots, but those taken by the d3 are not all that good, the s30 is so small now it is easy to travel with.

[@alistairsmall9901]

Really exited about this lil telescope🎉

[@friedrice5292]

Hello Damon. Thank you for this video. I m a beginner and in the market of buying my first telescope. After tons of research and with a limited amount of budget, I came across your video which this might possible my solution. Oh... also, may I ask if the S30 does object tracking? Thank you again!

[@hgfghn371]

Hola. Tengo el S50 y creo que hace mucho mejores fotografías que el S30. Yo no me compraría el S30, aunque sea un poco mas pequeño y barato yo creo que es peor que el S50. El S50 con el modo mosaico puede fotografiar completamente la Galaxia de Andrómeda , la espada de Orión completa, la Roseta y todo el campo de Orión en cabeza de caballo con el árbol en llamas completamente , estos son objetos de los mas grandes en el Cielo y con la resolución del S50 de 2´5 segundos de arco, que es mucho mas que los 4´3 segundos de resolución que tiene el S30. Esta es mi opinión después de ver los resultados. de los dos modelos. Saludos

[@friedrice5292]

@@hgfghn371 Thank you so much for your input. Do you have any input on the Dwarf 3 base on the current status? Still in the market buying either S50 or new coming Dwarf 3. Thanks in advance! Cheer :)

[@dcmedia66]

Hi Damon, great videos, I've ben a subscriber for a few years. Keep them coming. I've been looking into mounting my Seestar S50 to my window legde, and spotted you'd done it at 3:20 in this video. Do you have any details on how you mounted it please? Many thanks.

[@zobris]

When HAF125 review?

[@Farida-ii5vx]

Thanks for the very interesting video, I'm looking forward to my S30 now. By the way how did you attach the S50 to the window edge, because I would also like to do that, thank you :)

[@skinfology]

he kinda explained on his previous s50 related video.

[@Farida-ii5vx]

@skinfology thanks !

[@andyrawlins]

Very interesting thanks. Please tell me though that all that garden light pollution is just while you are filming! I wouldn't want to be your next door neighbour :)

[@TheCarlos2679]

Isn't the s50 better now since it has mosaic mode?

[@stormchaser_dan4293]

mosaic mode on the s30 looks better than the 50 tbf im getting the 30 for Christmas

[@michaeldiaz4942]

You can double the area of the S50 with mosaic which roughly gets you to the native FOV of the S30, but at the cost of much longer time to get the same area. But the S30 has mosaic to so you can roughly double the area again, but again with a much longer time to get the data. Basically it's a question of do you want to want to capture a smaller area natively but with a little more detail with the S50, or save the $150 and capture a larger area natively, but with less detail. I really wouldn't say one is "better" than the other, but which one is better for what you want to capture?

[@zaffyr]

mindblowing how small this telescope is

[@asingularhuman]

5:05 nahhh that's wild to keep in the video.

[@n3tuf]

Very nice review Damon. I ordered mine a week ago and can't wait to use it. Your images were spectacular!

[@DpacOP]

Is that’s the neighbours camera facing your garden?

[@asingularhuman]

they just wanna watch his telescopes

[@Seanjones1990]

i know for the peice it seems great. but im certainly glad after seeing the specs of this i went with a typical setup. i did it for around £1000 consists of * 533mc! (not cooled RARE) - peltier cooled - gets to 5c every session ive used it (4 times) within 4 minutess. - bigger hot side heatsink would = lower temps £280 *skywatcher adventurer GTI - goto is a must. got it for £250 from ebay *asiair plus got it for £150 *zwo dual band filter 1.25 £60 *colour 120mc + guide scope 110 *sky watcher Evo guide 50 with flatter for 170 total was about £1020 and i get as close to professional as it gets if zwo did a professional seestar this would be what i think it would be close to. as square sensors suffer less with rotation and the 533 sensor is pretty clean and easy to work with

[@myk1200s]

So Damon which one is your tops ❓.... S50 or the s30 ❓

[@Jeeprepdiaries12]

me with bortle 9 🙂

[@asingularhuman]

in a bortle 9 area, if you are unable to travel outside to a lower bortle I recommend getting a telescope with a larger aperture, and using a lp filter such as the L-Extreme. I have seen great images from highly light polluted area's, you just need good hardware, and good processing skills which just come with time. The seestar is not a bad telescope for a light polluted area though considering it has am built in lp filter, and has live stacking so you can see what you're imaging.

[@simony2801]

As a game take a swig of vodka everytime he says Seestar S30 🤪

[@TBSEditz]

Hi

[@carterday17]

First

[@tokenboybandmember]

Well done in life

[@zazoreal5536]

If you look at the Orion nebula through a telescope with just some Light pollution, Say goodbye to any features. Hello Hazy grey Nebula! Oh and that doesn't even account for clouds. I personally like seeing things with my own eyes rather than capturing it on camera. But that is just me.

[@dontfearthereefer5683]

Its a bit like being a photographer and someone presses the shutter for you. Intelligent, but I feel you could get bored very quickly of these systems.

[@SocratesAlexander]

I find digital telescopes meaningless. To me, the beauty of traditional telescopes lies in observing astronomical objects live, with your own "real" eyes. If you're going to use such a device, then why even bother with an optical setup? A simple screen at the end of a tube connected to the internet could do the same thing. You just point the tube at a spot in the sky, and it downloads a good image of that region from the internet to show you. Am I wrong, though?

[@JoseNavarroCo]

I think you may be right about most. However, we still don't have plane tracking or features like timelapse that our current mounts don't have yet.

[@QiBao]

I have a 10-inch Dob, and I’m looking to get into astrophotography without too much effort. This product seems like a great fit. If I head out to a rural area with less light pollution, it’s definitely coming with me!

[@waynewheaton3210]

You're not wrong and I understand what you're saying. I do enjoy visual astronomy and that's how I started back in the 80s. We could say the same with numerous other hobbies (Ex. Photography, woodworking, BBQ, music,....). There are many ways to enjoy our hobbies, the more people involved helps new product development and lower prices. Someone may start out with an S30 then buy a 16 inch dob someday. Do what you enjoy.

[@stormchaser_dan4293]

@@waynewheaton3210 im starting with the s30 after only being on a regular tripod and spotting scope taking 6 second images with just a google pixel 6 pro for a yr.

[@stormchaser_dan4293]

spotting scope was only 25-75times60 and it captured the andromeda's core and the orion nebula and the moon and saturn and jupiter.

[@7anih]

The promo looks like Apple The Price point selling looks like Apple Hmm i think they are learning from...

[@A0111.]

Yeah, nah. Stars aren't round, that's probably why he only briefly shows these images at full screen. I would've been disappointed with the optics regardless of the price.

[@BradTheThird]

Sorry, can't. Just bought another guitar.

[@PPL_Mick]

The lack of an EQ mode is a deal breaker for me. The Dwarf 3 seems like a better option.

[@asingularhuman]

dwarf 3 has an eq mode???

[@PPL_Mick]

@ yes it does 👍