SeeStar S50 vs Dwarf II Smart Telescopes Head to Head Live Showdown!

[@kevinwright7713]

Best review of these two side by side I've watched,all questions answered clearly and direct , brilliant.
Guess what ,I've purchased both of them.😂😂

[@EmberSkyMedia]

Glad you found the side by side helpful! Yes they pair nicely together so you made the right choice!

[@charlesellington7697]

I’m new to astrophotography. Thank you for the head-to-head comparison between the Seestar S50 and the Dwarf II. I own a Seestar S50 and I absolutely love the ease of use and simplicity of the apps user interface. Do you think you could demonstrate (create a video) on how to get stacked files out of the Seestar and into Siril and explain basic Siril processing? I don’t find Siril to be intuitively obvious.

[@EmberSkyMedia]

Yes I plan to make such a video for SeeStar and Dwarf II imaging (they are pretty much the same method) and I completely understand your frustration with Siril, its not "straight forward" like other applications. Preview to the video would be the "OSC_PreProcessing_without DBF" is the script to use for these smart telescopes to get the "Stacked' image you can then process with photo-editing software to get your final image.

[@4sapphireb]

You mention in a past video you can manually stitch a mosaic, and you had a video of it. I can't find the video.

[@nigelmorris1286]

Hi great video as always ....I wonder if the Seestar can track and capture the ISS or is it travelling too fast/

[@EmberSkyMedia]

Too Fast! It would streak across the frame in a second. I’ve tried this with a friend once, and $7000 worth of gear… not easy. You need access to a server (forget the name) for accurate up to date info on ISS position to track it across the sky plus a mount with a high slew rate and solid gears as any wiggle and your off-target.

[@EmberSkyMedia]

Best bet if you want to image iSS is transit finder transit-finder.com/results as you can then get a photo as it passes in front of the moon or sun. It also has Tiagong now! And Hubble (if you are closer to the equator than I). Then just take a video of the sun/moon and you’ll capture the station as it whips by!

[@dennisrogers6786]

Are you using thr LP filter? I use the ZWO duo works great for Dwarf 2

[@EmberSkyMedia]

I was not using any filters

[@RR-zq3mk]

Can you manually enter coordinates of an object with either of these scopes for it to go to?

[@EmberSkyMedia]

Yes you can, although for the SeeStar it’s Atlas is drag and point visual which makes picking framing really easy.

[@dennisrogers6786]

I have had great success at up to gain 130, but depends on object.

[@EmberSkyMedia]

On dimmer targets and more time you can really get some fantastic results, however in a live stream I find more than 2-3 minutes and people tap-out so its why I only do bright targets etc. I have like 5 hours on the cone nebula that I need to process next.

[@dennisrogers6786]

I hardly use my Dwarf 2 as its so missing a star atlas. Hate the manual inputting and still lacks to may objects in its database

[@EmberSkyMedia]

They updated the target list but I too hope they eventually add an atlas to the app.

[@mevansmrichard]

Dark Horse Nebula sounds way better than Horsehead Nebula.

[@EmberSkyMedia]

Yeah I sometime mix that up.