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Seestar S50 Pro: ZWO Founder Sam Wen Explains the Upgrades
Friday, September 18, 2026 by Richard Harris
Now that the Seestar S50 Pro is here, we thought it was a good time to sit down with Sam Wen, founder and CEO of ZWO. Sam is more than the person running the company. He is a software engineer, an amateur astronomer, and an astrophotographer who understands the problems his customers are trying to s...
Seestar S50 Pro First Look: Insights from ZWO Founder Sam Wen
Monday, August 31, 2026 by Richard Harris
The Seestar S50 Pro has arrived, but the more interesting story may be what it tells us about where ZWO believes smart telescopes are headed next. For the September issue of ScopeTrader, we sat down with ZWO founder and CEO Sam Wen for an extended conversation about the development of the S50 Pro...
Lunar surface impact from Falcon 9 creates rare observing opportunity
Tuesday, August 4, 2026 by Trey Abbe
Most lunar impacts arrive without warning. A small meteoroid strikes the Moon and produces a flash that may last less than a second. Unless a telescope and camera happen to be pointed at the right location at the right time, the moment is gone before anyone knows it happened. The Falcon 9 uppe...
Questar is gone: The fate of the world's most famous compact telescope
Friday, July 3, 2026 by Richard Harris
Like a lot of amateur astronomers, I can still remember flipping through Astronomy magazine in the 1980s and stopping on those Questar ads. There it was, this small, polished, precision telescope photographed like a fine instrument, not just another piece of astronomy gear. I wanted one pretty bad b...