Jeff WX1USN
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I'd want to shoot raptors; birds of prey.
Snowy owls are what really excites me.
Eagles, hawks, falcons. I love to see them.
I just don't have opportunities for doing so without traveling,
which can be costly.
Either that, or with unlimited budget, astrophotography.
Costliness for this, of course, goes WAY up.
It's not affordable for me to dedicate myself to either of these pursuits.
Craig check out my flickr albums for the affordable Seestar scopes, the links are on this post below
I have added more images from both my S50 and S30 to my flickr album and started a separate album for the S30. So far I have done all my imaging from my light polluted home 300 feet from a major mall and 600 feet from a 24 hour factory. It is Bortle 7.5-8. Bortle is a system for telling how much light pollution your area has. My area is what is known as a transition zone, a cross between suburban and city skies. On dark nights I cannot see the milky way and can't see most constellations only the brighter stars.
Both the Seestar scopes do very well in light polluted areas.
There are dozens of youtube videos and several facebook sites for the Seestar scopes.
Here are my two albums
S50/S30 https://www.flickr.com/photos/jmpadell/albums/72177720314620443
S30 https://www.flickr.com/photos/jmpadell/albums/72177720323580754
As I told Levina my recommendation for you first scope should be the S50 as there are many more smaller targets than there are large targets. almost all galaxies and globular clusters are small even in the S50.