I Tried My Hand at Astrophotography With a $500 Smart Telescope. Here's How It Went

Photography has become my most consistent creative practice outside of writing. I've used my cameras for astrophotography with varying levels of success. The main issue I faced was a total lack of tools to track the motion of stars during the long exposures. Astrophotography is hard but it doesn't need to be. I've captured roughly 50,000 images in the 18 years since I bought my first digital camera, a Fujifilm FinePix S700. These days, I take most of my photos on a Google Pixel 8 Pro. Recently, I took one giant leap forward with the $549 DwarfLab Dwarf 3 Smart Telescope, a feature-packed compact telescope. I've been testing the Dwarf 3 for the past two months and, not only has it changed my perspective on astrophotography without a bulky telescope and camera adapter setup, but I found it has excellent tools for other kinds of photography. Excellent tech in a small package The Dwarf 3 smart telescope includes almost everything you need -- except a tripod John Carlsen/CNET The Dwarf ... Read full article.