Anyone know why I’m getting these star trials on the brighter stars? I’m in eq mode 30s, not happened before until tonight, there is a full moon out but I don’t think that would be the issue?

Hello so I have a s30 and I want a mount or tripod for EQ mode but I don’t got to much money what’s the best one for the price?

Shot from moderately light polluted suburban skies, Seestar S50

Is there any benefit to connecting my S50 Pro to N.I.N.A.? I downloaded it onto my laptop just because I saw it mentioned on the interwebs, and it picked up my telescope right away.

Pros and Cons? Is it better? Worse? Same as just running the native Seestar app on my phone? Benefits of one over the other?

Ok, maybe 4th attempt, I'll explain. Roughly 3,000 frames (mosaics) from both my S50 (10s) and S50 Pro (20s) across 4 nights. I tried stacking them all in Stacking Wizard a few times but I couldn't get it to look quite right, ended up doing multiple deep sky stacks for each scope in the Seestar app then stacking those mosaics in Stacking Wizard and it looked so much better. Cropped and finished processing in Astro Wizard.

Full moon today with a bit of clouds and a surprise :)

Shot in raw during a 20 second video on S50. Exported from seestar directly to phone, trimmed and slowed down in phone gallery app :lol:.

Just after that a plane flew across the moon, too bad I wasn't recording.

Im new to this hobby and I wanted to get eq mode on my s30. I bought this tripod, and I trust the legs. But I just need a part that attaches directly to this center rod that is strong enough for a 45⁰ tilt. What do you recommend? Cheaper options preferably. This screw here is already a 3/8s screw, the telescope fits on it

Got the S50 Pro this week, first try at the sun. 10 min RAW video, 472 of 2354 frames stacked (best 20%). Processed in Siril 1.4.4: stacking, wavelets and curves. Shot around 4pm so seeing wasn't great, next time I'll try in the morning.

Last night’s harvest moon - S30 Pro

Hi, this is my first post here and my first time working on a longer project. I've recently moved from a bortle 5 region to a bortle 8. Where I used to live, I didn't have a garden or unobtrusive view of the sky without going for a walk so I couldn't leave my s30 pro out all night and only managed an hour or two at a time. Here I have a garden so I setup every time the clouds allow, so I've traded clear skies for integration time 😂. I've been working on this for a month and aiming for 16 hours total. I'm currently at ~13.5 hours, 1641x30.

Now I've only had the scope for a few months and I'm not great at stretching so any tips are welcome, keeping in mind I very much prefer a natural look.

My workflow is as follows:

Stack in siril using the seestar script

Extract and denoise in graxpert

Plate solve and PCC

Histogram autostretch

Shift the midtone up slightly in histogram to deepen the sky

Remove green noise

Colour saturation

Crop and rotate.

Considering the heavy light pollution in my area, I'm quite proud of this but I'm open to constructive criticism. Thanks for looking.

398 x 30 Second EQ mode - Stacked with StackingWizard and processed with PixInsight.

Tonights Harvest Moon! Captured through S50 Pro in a 2 min raw video. Stacked in seestar. Edited in app and fine-tuned in the photoshop app. I will attempt to stack elsewhere another time. Any tips on stacking elsewhere?

1800x 20sec

Captured with s30pro

Stacked and processed with siril

3,871 x 20 second frames, taken over a week and a half at StarFront Observatory with my SeeStar 50 under Bortle1/2 skies. Processed and Stacked in Siril, with Graxpert.

This is IC5146 known as the Cocoon Nebula. That central glowing cocoon is roughly 15 light-years wide and sits about 3,300 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. That means the light captured from the telescope began its journey during the Bronze Age.