After waiting a while for the tech to mature, I decided that a Smart Telescope would be fun to play with.   So, I got the cheapest one on the market.

ZWO built it originally and they spun off a new company called Seestar to market it.    In this case, the unit is the Seestar S50, a 50mm triplet in an all-in-one design including mount, camera, computer and storage.

Here’s the first light images from it: