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I have ordered one - ostensibly for my wife so
She can sit in the car and image away with the minimum of effort… while I
muck around outside in the cold at club observing nights and star parties
It’s altaz and as of now limited to 10 sec subs.. you can save individual subs as FITS as well as the live stack. There is no limit to the number of subs you can take
There are images available taken by beta testers on line
from different Bortle locations
To my eye it’s a tad noisy but if one could be bothered to run NoiseXterminator on the stack it may clean up really well. In practice I doubt there will be much post processing- can’t see my wife wanting to do any of that- she does
like the idea of watching an image slowly appear as you watch as it live stacks
Comes with a dark, Uv/IR and not terribly narrowband duo filter (20 nm Ha and 30 nm OIII) and an external solar filter. Moon and sun images look
quite respectable
It’s an apochromat. Built in dew heaters. The app for iOS was released yesterday still waiting for the Android app
The Zwo people have said it’s been a massive success and they are swamped by preorders
Expect lengthy delay in order fulfilment …
Shipping to start end August for preorders
-been delayed a couple of months but in that time features have been added in response to customer feedback so it probably made the wait worthwhile
Will be interesting to see what it does in real life!
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