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So much more money tho'!
I've been watching a lot more vids on the Seestar. A lot of the astrophotography crowd seem to love it even tho' the image it kicks out is so tiny. Granted, the results are pretty nice but it seems to be geared towards social media posts as opposed to proper high resolution photography. I guess you get what you pay for.
If a new version were to come out that could output e.g. 5000 X 3500 pixels I'd be all fucking over it.
RonAsheton-
If it's got a good frame rate you can easily increase resolution beyond the CCD resolution. Simple explanation is:
- Take a bunch of images which are all slightly misaligned
- Upscale by a factor of 2 or 3 or whatever
- Align all the images (as in, if there's a star in the image, align all the stars, not align the pixel grids)
- Merge them
You need to have a bit of motion in the images so that the light sources aren't all perfectly aligned with the pixels but it's not difficult.
- Take a bunch of images which are all slightly misaligned
frankenbike
Here's another smart telescope
https://venturebeat.com/ai/unistellars-ai-telescope-lets-you-view-galaxies-in-the-night-sky-from-the-city/
$2500 though
BUT - 37 million stars, and it can see more than 5,000 celestial objects that include clusters of lots of stars.
AND
It uses machine learning to get rid of the light pollution with what it calls Smart Light Pollution Reduction technology to reduce the blurriness of an image
On your smartphone, it gives you a 6.2-megapixel image resolution and a wide field of view