r/seestar

First time pointing to IC5070, i have zero experience but i feel the result was impressive. Any feedback or criticisms is really welcome!

Thanks a lot!

stars turned out alot better now using blurx and starx :)

894x20s, S50 (eq)

Im shooting from a balcony pointed south.
The polar alignment worked every time until now.
Every time it goes to look straight at a wall.
I tried to reset the device.
Calibrate the level.
The wedge is pointed north as perfect as the iPhone compass lets me.
The sky is about 95% clear.
And the polar alignment worked for me on days that are more cloudy then that.
Has this ever happened to anyone?

As a peace offering the auto-mod gods, I'm including my latest processed image. NGC 6960 through my S50. Just over 2 hours of integration time. Processed in Siril.

But the reason I'm posting is I have some questions for the community here. I'm working on an Astrophotography library and workflow management app. It's going to be free and open source, and cross-platform (desktop). The vision is "Lightroom for Astrophotographers". It has grown out of my own workflow. It aims to help you keep track of your library of images, help you manage your processing workflow, and also give you some goals to work towards, to help guide your astrophotography journey. It does not aim to replace tools like Siril or PixInsight, nor tools like SkySafari or Stellarium. Some of the headline features:

• Easy ingest from Seestar scopes (and I hope to support Dwarflabs scopes as well, and eventually just unstructured collections of files)
• Keep track of which objects have fresh lights and need a re-stack
• Track your progress in collecting the objects in the Messier catalog (and/or several other catalogs, including selections for users in the southern hemisphere)
• Prep for Siril processing (create working directories organized as Siril expects, including presets for the Naztronomy script). Other post processing tools coming later.
• Publish your images (creates a static site now, will support CMSs and popular hosting options)
• There are lots of other features not mentioned here around session planning, display, and organization

Anyway as I said this is built off of my workflow, which is an S50, Siril, and a Mac as the computer. As I prepare for the beta, I could really use a few capture directories from other scopes (S30, S30 Pro, and Dwarflabs scopes). I want to ensure the importer does the right thing with all the different image types these scopes save, and I'd love to support Dwarflabs out the gate. If anyone is willing to help out here please DM me, I'd be really grateful. I don't need a ton of .fit files, but ideally a few directories with different objects including DSO, planetary, solar/lunar and landscape images (plus star trails or any other tricks your scope has), looking like they'd look when the scope is connected to your computer. I would not use the files for any purpose other than app development and testing, and would not publish or redistribute them.

The other thing, just informally, what is everyone running for an OS? I assume at least a plurality of folks here run Windows. Are there Linux users here? Mac users? Chime in on the thread and let me know. Also curious what processing tools you're using. I know Siril and PixInsight are important. Are y'all using SAS Pro? Any other tools?

Thanks for reading, and let me know what you think! I hope to ship a beta in the next month.

my project for this summer with the s30pro:
doing 8-10h per panel. now i am at 26.8h in total and i am pretty excited how far i’ll get this year ☺️

M51 from last night

Only 145 x 10 seconds before the clouds set in

Processed in PI

• 2.5 Minutes, ~ 3000 frames, stacked best 25%.
• Bortle 6
• Processed in Siril and Gimp
• Taken with the Seestar S30 Pro

Gm all

I’m looking to finally upgrade from the standard tripod and wondered if anyone has used or could recommend the attached.

NGC 7000 - the North America Nebula in HOO - 4700x10sec over 6 nights from Drößnitz/Thuringia/Germany, Seestar S30 Pro, Stacking with APP (1,5 drizzle), Post-Processing in PixInsight (Prism, MAS, Foraxx, Veralux) and SkyAnnotationStudio

I was wondering what to shoot during the period around the full moon, so I decided to give globular cluster a try.

I ended up with 20h of data as 5s, 10s and 20s. I went with a lot of short exposure to try to better resolve the core. I drizzled 2x the stack with Siril and processed the image in PI.

I like the mix of blue and yellow stars in the core. I can't imagine what the night sky would look like if earth was orbiting one of the star at the center! There, the density is 100 stars within a 3 light year cube.

Captured on 2 July 2026 using a Seestar S50, this image combines 1,264 individual 20-second exposures, a total integration time of 7 hours, 1 minute and 20 seconds. Image processed in Siril software using RC Astro tools.

Located approximately 7,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens, M16 is a cloud of predominantly hydrogen gas ionised by intense ultraviolet radiation from hot, young stars. The nebula is an active region of star formation associated with the young open star cluster NGC 6611.

At its heart are the famous Pillars of Creation, enormous columns of dense molecular gas and dust several light-years in length.

Spanning roughly 70 light-years, the Eagle Nebula provides a spectacular view of the physical processes that shape stellar nurseries and drive the formation of new generations of stars

My first serious attempt at editing with Siril and Graxpert. Already had experience with Gimp.

The data is a 2x mosaic with the Seestar s50 in alt az mode. 63 minutes of 10 second exposures.

Processed stacked fit from seestar in graxpert for background and denoise, siril for stretch, color and detials, graxpert again to extract background and noise caused by siril, Gimp for color, curves, contrast and Lightroom Mobile free for the maximum details.

The most challenging photo I’ve taken in the 315 days since I got my S50 telescope. A 15-panel mosaic (5×3) with 20% overlap captured using the built-in Plan mode in the Seestar app with custom coordinates.

Drizzle ×3 in Siril.

More pics:

https://www.astroimg.com/user/578884013737906179?locale=en&theme=dark

Taken with my S30 Pro in Stargazing mode, ONLY 2 minutes of integration time using the new 5-second exposures!

Genuinely an impressive feat of the 585 sensor's AMAZING quantum efficiency registering that many stars in only 2 minutes, plus the two planets were only 9 degrees above the western horizon and were setting behind Manhattan (which is a complete light pollution dome!)

The planets were ~1.6 degrees apart :3

Really hope Reddit doesn't compress this image too much...

One of my dream targets. Captured with the Seestar S30 Pro for 63 minutes. No other software was used.

200 30s subs.
Was taken in bortle 9 during a full moon.
S30 pro.
My first time processing and jumped straight to pixinsight.
Took a few hours of anger but got somewhere eventually.

The Pinwheel Galaxy, a galaxy located 21 million light years away, captured with the Seestar S30 Pro.

Exposure time: 62 minutes total