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Seestar S50 Images

July 19, 2026 4:30 UT

I managed to photograph the dwarf planet Haumea. I positioned my S50 to the approximate location in the sky using the Seestar's SkyAtlas and then took about 40 sixty second exposures and stacked them using Siril. Haumea ended up being located near the edge of the field of view. I used the asteroid/comet location script in Siril to identify Haumea's position. I also tried to use Stellarium to locate Haumea but it was showing Haumea in a slightly different position. The position where Siril identified Haumea in my image has nothing located at its position in Stellarium. Haumea was at almost 18th magnitude when taking the airmass into account. I started taking images at about 10:30 PM CDT and continued until about 12:30 AM in the morning. There was a crescent moon that was interfering at first but in the end everything worked out.