Seestar S50 Pro vs the original S50: is the upgrade worth $999?
ZWO’s Seestar S50 Pro started shipping on September 1 and now lists at $999 (€999 in Europe) on ZWO’s product page, after an $899 launch price that ended on September 15. I’ve run the original S50 from my Bortle 7 balcony in Nicosia for most of a year, so the question I care about is narrow: if you already own an S50, what does $999 buy you? It buys the same light grasp and the same pixel scale, roughly 3.7 times the sky per frame, a 67% bigger battery, a wide-angle camera, and a main sensor nobody expected. For most S50 owners imaging from a city, I’d hold off. For a few, it fixes the exact thing that’s been annoying them. ...