See the first images from the new ZWO Seestar S30 Plus — a smart telescope aimed at beginners
While rivals announce increasingly expensive smart telescopes, ZWO’s new Seestar S30 Plus makes galaxy and nebula photography surprisingly affordable.
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As rival makers announce increasingly ambitious smart telescopes, ZWO has taken a different approach. Its new Seestar S30 Plus launched today and is available for $474 from Seestar’s website and Amazon, just in time for Christmas. Better still, we’ve been using it for a month and can bring you a first look.
Announced a few months after the flagship Seestar S50 Pro and replacing the now-discontinued Seestar S30, the new Seestar S30 Plus retains its 30mm aperture and compact chassis, but upgrades to four-element apochromatic optics with extra-low dispersion (ED) glass and two 3.7-megapixel cameras.
Seestar S30 Plus: was $499 now $474 It has a 1.2-inch (30 mm) aperture, two 3.7 MP cameras and four-element apochromatic optics bundled into a compact build. View Deal
Both produce 1,440 x 2,560-pixel images, while a much-improved 43.5-degree wide-angle camera can capture the Milky Way, constellations, star trails and nightscapes. Built-in filters, a mosaic mode and equatorial (EQ) tracking add considerable deep-sky astrophotography potential.
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