What AstroSight does
Tell AstroSight what you want to photograph, how dark your sky is and what you can spend. It answers twice, side by side: the best smart telescope for the job, and the best traditional rig, meaning a separate mount, optics and camera. Each answer comes with its price, its weight and a score for every target you picked, including the ones it can’t do.
How it chooses
Smart telescopes are scored from their aperture, sensor and built-in modes, then adjusted for your sky. Traditional rigs follow the old astronomer’s rule that the mount matters most. AstroSight budgets the mount first, keeps the imaging load well inside what the mount can carry, then picks the optics and camera. It shares one mount across all your targets, and one lens or scope wherever that genuinely covers two jobs. A rig that goes over your budget is never shown. If nothing fits, AstroSight tells you what the cheapest suitable kit costs instead of pretending.
Prices
Prices are typical US street prices, checked by hand and converted to your currency at approximate exchange rates. The page quietly downloads the latest price list each time it opens. The final price is always the one at the shop, so tap Buy to see it.
How the site is funded
AstroSight is free. It earns a commission when you buy through its links, and it shows a small number of ads. No brand pays to be recommended, and a product’s commission has no effect on its score.
Photos
Target photos come from NASA, ESA, ESO, the US Air Force and Wikimedia Commons contributors under public-domain and Creative Commons licences. Each photographer is credited at the bottom of the kit finder. The sharing image is the Milky Way over Chile’s Atacama Desert by Bruno Gilli/ESO (CC BY 4.0).
Contact
AstroSight makes AstroSight in the UK. Found a wrong price, a broken link or a product we’ve missed? Contact: astro.sight.space@gmail.com.