Thanks for the balanced review. Clearly not quite where it needs to be to introduce people to astronomy but has the potential to be improved in the right direction. I'm wondering if it would be good at capturing something like the small sagittarius star cloud considering its 500mm focal length.
I'm still wonderung what the "AI powered" means, beside marketing claims. It woudl have been nice if the scrren can guide you to find an object. Like the OpenSource software Astrohopper does. All they would have needed is to add some sensors to the controller. But thanks for the balanced review. It puts much more context into what to expect from this thing then their marketing claims.
I think their next version is going to be killer. This is so affordable and a great design, so better stacking, raw, more mm, star finding, maybe desktop editing tools could all be added within a decent price range and could really disrupt the business.
I think you should research what the word "Scam" really means and educate yourself, because this is not a scam. Its a telescope, tripod, and camera with LCD, internal storage, wireless remote and a solar filter for 325 bucks. I feel like that's a really fair price for all that stuff. The product itself is not bad for the price, but its also limited. Now there are things to clear up that I feel the company should do a much better job about. Ill be honest and say the company has done a poor job as setting fair expectations. So let me clear this up in full honesty. 1. You cant take Deep space images with it. I see they are using a picture of the California Nebula in Full Hydrogen Alpha Wavelength, Thats never gonna happen. The fact this scope doesn't have tracking means you'll never be able to get a shot like that. Also I haven't been able to see where I can take long exposures which...again, you need for deep space. I do however see Exposure compensation. But long story, deep space isn't gonna happen. 2. The Camera itself is not a true 48mp. Its 8mp that is Upressed in camera to 48mp. That was pretty disappointing to find out however, for the vast majority of people who this telescope is for its not anybit of a deal and they wont know or need to know the difference. Its real photographers, and advanced astrophotographers like myself who actually care, the people this is targeted for just wanna shoot something and post it, and so the upressed 48mp is good enough. But...the company should clarify this. 3. I don't like the dishonesty that they show jupiter and saturn on their page that is clearly taken with another telescope and camera set up. There is no way you're going to see good details of either planet with this set up. As mentioned in the video, you will see just barely the rings of saturn. That to a lot of people is really cool, but I don't think should be any bit convincing enough to buy the scope if your target is planets. 4. Ive seen in the comments they told someone that you can shoot in a RAW format, that isn't true, at least at the time of filming this video. 5. I also saw in the comments that Beverlabs said that it can compensate for earths rotation... which I'm like wtf? like why and how can you make that claim. The weird thing is they commented saying that it couldn't, and then left a second comment that said it could. Its not on a tracking mount or an equetorial mount and therefor it can NOT compensate for earths rotation. 6. I also want to clarify about the App. The App is simply a camera trigger. You cant control settings on the app which was disappointing but at least for a camera trigger I can be useful. 7. After filming this I had some mechanical issues that I will update at a later date depending on how the company handles it. Its a test of their customer service which to me is everything especially at times of launching something. Ill update this as I hear more. But, to bring it around and leave this on a positive note of transparency. I think they overdramatisize their claims and set unreal expectations of what this can do, however I also don't think this is a scam as you suggest. I stick by my original statement that this is good for those who want something super simple, lightweight, portable and easy to use specifically for the Sun and Moon.
@@ilovenirvana41 How is it not a scam if they are posting detailed images of the planets and deep sky objects on their website and it dose not do those things and provide those exact results. it's not dishonesty only if I say it can do XYZ show photos and it doesn't do those things that's scamming. Some of their claims require significantly more expensive astrophotography equipment.
@@ilovenirvana41If their claims do not match what the product does then it is indeed a scam as you said they show images not taken by the telescope and results that are impossible for it to produce. People buy it thinking it can produce what they claim it does and it can't. That is a scam. If someone sells you a car telling you It hits 200mph and it only hit 100mph they scammed you. It's not only misleading they very well know their telescope can't produce the results of their claims .
Do you have a video explaining what route to take (equipment wise) for more serious deep space astrophotography?
Thanks for the balanced review. Clearly not quite where it needs to be to introduce people to astronomy but has the potential to be improved in the right direction.
I'm wondering if it would be good at capturing something like the small sagittarius star cloud considering its 500mm focal length.
I'm still wonderung what the "AI powered" means, beside marketing claims. It woudl have been nice if the scrren can guide you to find an object. Like the OpenSource software Astrohopper does. All they would have needed is to add some sensors to the controller. But thanks for the balanced review. It puts much more context into what to expect from this thing then their marketing claims.
I think their next version is going to be killer. This is so affordable and a great design, so better stacking, raw, more mm, star finding, maybe desktop editing tools could all be added within a decent price range and could really disrupt the business.
It's junk.. Seestar s50 or dwarf 3 is what you're wanting
This is a scam for the price and is not even close to the claims they try to make.
I think you should research what the word "Scam" really means and educate yourself, because this is not a scam. Its a telescope, tripod, and camera with LCD, internal storage, wireless remote and a solar filter for 325 bucks. I feel like that's a really fair price for all that stuff. The product itself is not bad for the price, but its also limited.
Now there are things to clear up that I feel the company should do a much better job about. Ill be honest and say the company has done a poor job as setting fair expectations. So let me clear this up in full honesty.
1. You cant take Deep space images with it. I see they are using a picture of the California Nebula in Full Hydrogen Alpha Wavelength, Thats never gonna happen. The fact this scope doesn't have tracking means you'll never be able to get a shot like that. Also I haven't been able to see where I can take long exposures which...again, you need for deep space. I do however see Exposure compensation. But long story, deep space isn't gonna happen.
2. The Camera itself is not a true 48mp. Its 8mp that is Upressed in camera to 48mp. That was pretty disappointing to find out however, for the vast majority of people who this telescope is for its not anybit of a deal and they wont know or need to know the difference. Its real photographers, and advanced astrophotographers like myself who actually care, the people this is targeted for just wanna shoot something and post it, and so the upressed 48mp is good enough. But...the company should clarify this.
3. I don't like the dishonesty that they show jupiter and saturn on their page that is clearly taken with another telescope and camera set up. There is no way you're going to see good details of either planet with this set up. As mentioned in the video, you will see just barely the rings of saturn. That to a lot of people is really cool, but I don't think should be any bit convincing enough to buy the scope if your target is planets.
4. Ive seen in the comments they told someone that you can shoot in a RAW format, that isn't true, at least at the time of filming this video.
5. I also saw in the comments that Beverlabs said that it can compensate for earths rotation... which I'm like wtf? like why and how can you make that claim. The weird thing is they commented saying that it couldn't, and then left a second comment that said it could. Its not on a tracking mount or an equetorial mount and therefor it can NOT compensate for earths rotation.
6. I also want to clarify about the App. The App is simply a camera trigger. You cant control settings on the app which was disappointing but at least for a camera trigger I can be useful.
7. After filming this I had some mechanical issues that I will update at a later date depending on how the company handles it. Its a test of their customer service which to me is everything especially at times of launching something. Ill update this as I hear more.
But, to bring it around and leave this on a positive note of transparency. I think they overdramatisize their claims and set unreal expectations of what this can do, however I also don't think this is a scam as you suggest. I stick by my original statement that this is good for those who want something super simple, lightweight, portable and easy to use specifically for the Sun and Moon.
@@ilovenirvana41 How is it not a scam if they are posting detailed images of the planets and deep sky objects on their website and it dose not do those things and provide those exact results. it's not dishonesty only if I say it can do XYZ show photos and it doesn't do those things that's scamming. Some of their claims require significantly more expensive astrophotography equipment.
@@ilovenirvana41If their claims do not match what the product does then it is indeed a scam as you said they show images not taken by the telescope and results that are impossible for it to produce. People buy it thinking it can produce what they claim it does and it can't. That is a scam. If someone sells you a car telling you It hits 200mph and it only hit 100mph they scammed you. It's not only misleading they very well know their telescope can't produce the results of their claims .