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    I spent a year with the $550 smart telescope that’s shaking up the astrophotography world – and this is what it’s capable of


    Astrophotography is famously hard on the wallet and demanding of your free time. Sure, it’s easy enough to snap a photo of the moon on your phone, but getting a good shot of a galaxy is an entirely different. But all that’s changing, thanks to a new wave of smart telescopes that are ushering in a revolution in deep-sky photography.

    The ZWO Seestar S50 is one of a cluster of these automated marvels that have arrived in the past few years. Like the others, it combines a tracking mount (to keep the target centred) with a computerized database and a camera in one compact package.

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