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View submission: I’m totally cheating and I know it.
I bought the s50 and the sense of “cheating” made me return it. You tell the machine what object you want to image, it images it. If you’re into personally processing there are ways you can get the raw images off the device but if you’re not, the image you take is the *exact* same as every person who took it with an s50.
Looking in the public gallery of 100s of the *exact* same shot made the device feel like a slow form of Google.
Comment by BabyEinstein2016 at 09/03/2025 at 13:50 UTC
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Yeah, I like to process my own, but I understand that point of view. But my limiting factors are currently time and money as well as having something that my boys could do. My 6 year old isn't interested in capturing 300 lights at 30 seconds and then processing in siril,so this way for the next few years they could be actively involved and have pictures that they "took" themselves. Plus, I could build from there and get a dobsonian or something that we could look through in real time. So, for me, it's more of a positive thing in my life rather than trying to be pure astrophotography.