Look what this little thing can do that I’ve always failed at myself, even with an entire observatory at my disposal: take decent astrophotos.

Here it is on a home made tripod, taking photos of the sun. Notice the reflective solar filter. Here are two images:

The device woke up, and after less than a minute of self’s-calibration, it pointed very accurately at the sun and focused itself perfectly. It produces a continuous feed; I even did 100 frames of a time-lapse. It’s all stored on my cell phone but I can share the photos or even live views with folks nearby.

And from night time spots here in DC and NOVA:

This can take tolerable astrophotos even when surrounded by streetlights!

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