I have owned two smart telescopes since 2024: the Seestar S50 and Celestron Origin Intelligent Home Observatory. There are several others in today’s marketplace, you may own/operate one. I am introducing this topic to discuss these technologies, performance, current state-of-the-art, and the future of AI in telescopes and image processing.
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hi I have a dwarflab11 it is my main mobile scope I am very happy with it had it for some time now once you get to know how to set it up you can get some great shots with a bit of sharpcap and photoshop tweeks
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My wife has a Stellina which she loves. Even though it is somewhat dated tech it still takes very good images.
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It’s a very well reputed one and is a very important scope which will go to the history.
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Smart telescopes are not for me, as it makes it way to easy to take images. I prefer the challenges of traditional astrophotography. Otherwise, to me, it would get boring.
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Its to each their own. My wife wanted turn key and easy to use system. At the time Stellina was the only viable option. Sure its expensive as all get out but she loves it
smart telescopes are ideal for travelling or for a quick setup you still have to know how to properly set it up its not like a point and shoot camera I standby my dwarf2 I have taken some great shots with it once I got used of it,and Dwarflabs have been great with upgrades etc that way I can leave my nexstar 6se set up at home.Astro photography would never get boring if you are trying for that magic shot no matter what setup you have thats my 2 bobs worth.
Oddly enough i dont travel with the stellina. I usually just take my 4 inch
Smart scopes are great for people that want a no hassle, turn key way to do some basic AP. To you guys that do all the work and put in all the effort, kudos to you
Well, 13 years ago when I started down this Black Hole of Astro-folly,
there were no Smart scopes,
no ASI Airs,
and stuff was more expensive and far less reliable.
My learning curve had a lot of boulders rolling down on me.
So, I’m glad things are getting easier, for all of us.
But I’m “old school” and not apt to change now.
It’s been too hard to get here. 
Nobody is asking you to change lol
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since dwarflabs have done some great upgrades to the dwarf 11 i am liking my dwarf 11 a lot better now
What did they change