My astrophotography is done entirely using two entry-level electronically controlled “smart telescopes”, in particular, the ZWO Seestar S50 & S30. They are both on equatorial mounts that are polar aligned with the north celestial pole (the point in the sky around which the starfield rotates) in my backyard observatory. They are connected to a network and controlled remotely from my office using a piece of software called N.I.N.A, which I use to find targets as well as plan & execute imaging sequences. For any particular target, I will capture hundreds or thousands of individual images, which are then stacked together and processed in a piece of software called Pixinsight. Final visual tweaks are sometimes performed in Adobe Lightroom. Most targets take anywhere from 4-10 hours to plan, capture, and process. Some projects are closer to 20 hours, all in. None of that is counting the many hours I’ve spent simply looking up in perfect silence at the stars.