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I just stumbled across this in my feed, not sure why as I don't normally see astro stuff. But anyway I watched it all the way through.

Found it mildly interesting to use an array of (cheep?) commodity hardware and stacking

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[–] br3d@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

I recently bought a (different brand of) smart telescope and these things are great. Obviously the light-gathering capacity is much lower than traditional astrophotography setups, but the ease of use is incredible. Kudos to the engineers who make these things.