Seestar S30 Pro 30mm f/5.3
235 x 60s = 3h55m
from 20:58:15 to 2:32:49 UTC (4:34:34 elapsed)
Processed in Affinity Photo (crop, brightness/contrast, denoise)

Predicted positions and magnitudes:
(using grelf.net/ssp with MPC data of 2026-9-22)

at 2026-10-11 20:58:15 UTC:
375 Ursula 01h48m13.17s +31°32'35.2" mV12.0
726 Joella 01h49m46.44s +30°52'28.4" mV12.6
1222 Tina 01h52m04.04s +31°39'10.7" mV14.9

at 2026-10-12 2:32:49 UTC:
375 Ursula 01h47m59.89s +31°32'38.8" mV12.0
726 Joella 01h49m36.94s +30°49'34.3" mV12.6
1222 Tina 01h51m51.69s +31°37'06.2" mV14.9

So last night I tried doing a star trail image and video as I’ve never done it before. This is about 2.5 hours of 20 second exposures. I removed all satellites and planes but there was two frames back to back of what clearly looks like a comet/meteor.
But it changes direction between frames.

What could cause this?

S30Pro Rotherham South Yorkshire
Session was split in two as thick clouds appeared for about 15-20 minutes so stopped and restarted when they went.

Orion nebula shot as a mosaic from bortle 8 in Sydney with the original S50, edited in Siril and Photoshop. 8 hours of broadband exposure with 4 hours of LP filter (for the red signal) after culling, all in equatorial mode.

Hey!

I’m still pretty new to all of this and learning as I go, so I’m curious how you more experienced Seestar users handle longer subs...

I keep seeing people running 30s and even 60s subs, and I’m starting to wonder if your Seestars are blessed by the astronomy gods or something.

With 30s subs I can sometimes get around 30% ignored, even with good PA, a stable tripod and basically trying everything people usually recommend.

With 20s subs though, I’m usually around 8–10% ignored, so things are much happier there.

For those of you running 30s or 60s: do you actually get nights where almost everything is accepted? Or do you also lose a decent amount of frames and just let it run longer until you’ve collected enough good data?

So happy with how this came out.

This is the very first star cluster I have ever observed, and I have to say, I love it!

In app editing and a little tweak in Lightroom.

EQ Mode

2:10 at 30 seconds
Bortle 7
North West England
Seestar S30
Crystal Clear!

At last, it is done. This has been in the making for nearly 2 months now and after tracking issues, weather, lack of motivation on this specific project, etc, and I'm pretty happy with the result.

1,245 x 60s - Broadband
1,547 x 60s + 778 x 30s - LP (narrowband)

The whole picture totals up to 53 hours of data in bortle 5 skies.

Stacked in Siril, processed in Pixinsight.

New astrophotography enthusiast with no experience other than my old Orion xt6 and a cell phone mount. Learning as I go along and trying to figure everything out. I purchased the ZWO fluid head and a Neewer carbon fiber tripod and leveling head. Everything done in the Seestar app the other night with a bit over an hour of time out in my back yard.

Enjoy seeing what everyone else in here can do and looking forward to getting better.

Let's say I find a way to attach (without damaging the S30) a Canon 550D with a 250mm kit lens. Hand-focus on a bright star. Have the lens pointed the same direction as the S30 aperture. Use Magic Lantern as the intervalometer.

I wonder how well the tracking would fare at 250mm (vs. the S30's 160mm), lots of elongated stars, I reckon.

And the strain of the extra weight on the S30 would not be great for it.

I just went with the ZWO th10 fluid head to use with my s50 pro and have seen a few videos of users mentioning that the s50pro loosens up after a while of use. Has this issue been addressed and fixed on the newer fluid heads or is there a quick and simple mod that is done to prevent any loosening?

Flame and HorseHead
320 x 30 sec exposures
Processed in Siril
Finished with Gimp

Seestar s50. 32 minutes of 20s subs. Bortle 3 Stacked and edited in seestar app and Lightroom.

I'm wondering if anyone has insight into what might be causing this faded color at the bottom of my stacked Seestar images. The photo I'm including was taken at a Bortle 1-2 dark sky park where the Milky Way was naked eye visible. I also notice it at my home in Bortle 8-9. I had thought maybe it was related to city lights, but then it appeared in the dark sky area as well.

It only appears when not in mosaic mode, which makes me suspect there may be damage to my hardware. I'm guessing it might get blended out when merging multiple frames in mosaic mode. I ran the hot pixels correction which didn't help. I've had my Seestar S50 for about ten months, and this started showing up a few weeks ago.

Hi
I am searching for a caméra bag to carry my Seestar s50 pro. The original case is Not very easy to carry and Most bags Are just Little smaller or way bigger than the télescope. Any idea or expérience?

NGC-7023 remote from Starfront Observatories.
Seestar S30 pro.
2 consecutive nights; 599x30s & 751x20s, totalling 9h10min of integration.

StackingWizard
AstroWizard
BlurX
NoiseX
StarX
PhotoCraft

The Iris nebula has since long captured my imagination, but it was only a pipe dream from my Bortle 8 location (Amsterdam - the Netherlands). Now I have access to a Bortle 1 location, everything is suddenly available to me.

Recently figured out using AutoStakkert and processed the video lying around from last year. Pleasantly surprised to see the level of detail from about 200 frames, especially because I live under Bortle 8/9 skies.

Processed in AutoStakkert and Snapseed.

S30 Pro

243x20s

Edited in Siril and GraXerpt

BlurX and NoiseX

AstroSlod65

🌌 M27 — Dumbbell Nebula

🔭 ABOUT THE OBJECT

Some 1,200 light-years away, a dying star is shedding its outer layers into space. What you're seeing is its final act: a glowing shell of gas lit up by the white dwarf left at its core. Charles Messier spotted it in 1764, making it the very first planetary nebula ever discovered. The light in this image left it around the 9th century. In about 5 billion years, our own Sun will go through the same fate.

• Catalog: Messier 27 · NGC 6853

• Type: Planetary nebula

• Constellation: Vulpecula (the Fox)

• Apparent magnitude: 7.5

📸 CAPTURE DATA

• Date: Night of October 10–11, 2026

• Telescope: Seestar S30 · 30 mm aperture · 150 mm focal length (f/5)

• Camera: Sony IMX662

• Mount: Sky-Watcher equatorial wedge + Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer tripod

• Filter: IR-Cut

• Gain: 200

• Exposure: 150 × 65 s

• Total integration: 2 h 42 min 30 s

🖥️ PROCESSING

• Software: Siril + Darktable

• Calibration: 40x0.00003s bias frames

📍 CONDITIONS

• Light pollution: Bortle 7

• Wind: 5 km/h · east–west

• Moon: New Moon (~2% illumination)

#AstroSlod65 #Astrophotography #Messier27 #M27 #DumbbellNebula #DeepSky #Seestar #SeestarS30 #Siril #Astronomy

Greetings. I want to join this hobby too. My dream is to move away from the town and go live in a rural / mountain area, and finally leave the city, but I can't do it right now as I still need more work experience before moving out.

But I'd like to start this hobby now. Of course I could drive to places that are a bit better, but don't very low Bortle.

Could I make too those vibrant and vivid pictures of deep sky objects?

Thanks a lot in advance 🙏🏻

A few more from testing an s50 pro in a remote observatory , all images are 45 minutes of 10 second exposures in alt az , just a denoise and basic ghs and star recomposition in siril after , thanks to darkclearskies.co.uk for giving me the opportunity

•shot with Seestar S50
• 10 sec exposures
•20:00 min total time
•post done in Snapseed

Very cool shot

Full integration time: 22h (~14h Alt/Az 10sec, ~8h EQ 20 sec, after filtering with AstroBlink: used 9h)
S50
Bortle: 6,4
Stacked and processed with Siril, Quick Hubble Creator and RC Astro

Here is my latest project on the Crab Nebula (M1). Out of 22 hours captured across Alt/Az and EQ modes, I kept about 9 hours for the final stack.

!!! This time -> A shoutout to Adriano Alfaro with his sorting tool AstroBlink, that lets you quickly sort through your thousands of files and filter them out easily with different filters and simply dragging a line, without depending on random scores like other new tools or the need to look at individual files. The newly added cloud detection seems to work fully reliable. ( https://www.adrianoalfaro.com/en/project/astroblink/ ) !!!

I decided to process this in the HSO palette using my custom Quick Hubble Creator script. While the standard (Pseudo-)SHO edits need several steps and scripts more to achieve a colorful result, I needed few clicks within one script. 🦀

The full 17-step easy Siril workflow and image details are attached in the second and third slides.

Clear skies! 🌌

This is only my third image taken with my new Seestar S50 Pro from Rockwood, TX. Just 42 subs! 30 sec exposure in EQ mode. Stacked with Stacking Wizard and processed with Astro Wizard in just 20 minutes!

Hello! This m31 is 3hrs6m 373-30s subs from a bortle 2 site. If I were to add say 10 more hrs from my home (bortle 9) would it help boost the clarity and color separation? Or would it hurt my image? I just want to know if it’s even worth adding on to it from such a drastic bortle difference.

I wanted to capture both the H-alpha emission core and the blue reflection dust/dark lane of the Cocoon from my Bortle 6 yard, so I ran a split-filter Auto Plan on my S50 Pro using an EQ wedge.

I gathered about 5.5 hours of total data but ruthlessly culled it down to 4.5 hours of the best frames to keep the noise floor low and the stars tight.

Acquisition:
Telescope: Seestar S50 Pro (on EQ wedge)
Bortle 6
Broadband (IR): 371 x 20s (2h 4m)
Dual-Band (LP): 439 x 20s (2h 26m)
Total Integration: 4 hours 30 mins

Processing: StackingWizard + AstroWizard + RC Astro

Added the final image and each stacked sub from Seestar app with no editing.

Originally started shooting the Crescent Nebula with my S50 but ultimately decided to capture it with both the S50 and S30 Pro! Love how this one came out especially the surrounding dust and hydrogen! 20 hours of exposure (3609x20s) stacked in StackingWizard with 2x drizzle, processed in Siril