SeeStar Questions/comments

PBealo

I saw the Seestar at NEAF and ordered one this morning.
I'm interested in it for remote IOTA asteroid occultations and variable star imaging for AAVSO.
The SONY sensor looks great, but for variable star work has an issue with blue and green channels having a HUGE infrared leak (increased sensitivity in IR) and blue leak on red filter.

Would it be possible to buy an IR and UV block filter to add to the system to eliminate this issue?? I know this isn't for everybody, but for some scientific imaging it would be a must-do. Even having the front of the scope threaded to accept 2" screw on filters would fix this!

Peter Bealo
AAVSO observer

Tech@ZWO

PBealo It comes with an IR UV cut filter.

Alain_Maury

The lens is 50mm diameter, so it should be very easy to put a 52mm filter in front of the lens. More important, it would be really nice to be able to obtain fits images instead of TIFF format. That's one of the problem with telescopes like unistellar and vaonis, it's almost impossible to get science data out of the images. Shouldn't be complicated to upgrade the software in order to be able to save the images in fits format.

PBealo

Can you share the IR/UV cutout curve??

starlancer

Support an Eq mode on a tripod like the AZ-GTI can

Suhndog77

ZWO said they are working on making an accessory where you can use more filters.