Who knows? If the aim of them is to focus light on areas the size of solar farms and the like, then I'd imagine quite large. I haven't seen much else about it other than that ITV article from March.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4g4ygw0r02t#player 

The Artemis II mission has completed a critical engine burn that will propel the Orion spacecraft on its journey to the far side of the Moon

'Feeling pretty good up here': Artemis II makes critical push out of Earth's orbit towards Moon

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4g4ygw0r02t 

1. Jupiter: The "Striped Marble"

Jupiter is the most rewarding planet for these devices because of its brightness and size.

Cloud Belts: You will consistently see the two primary North and South Equatorial Belts. They appear as two dark, parallel lines across the disc.

The Great Red Spot (GRS): Under very steady skies, you can see the GRS as a small orange/pink "indentation" or smudge within one of the belts. You will not see the turbulent "swirls" inside it.

The Moons: All four Galilean moons are easily visible as bright pinpricks. With "Lucky Imaging" mode, you can even watch their shadows transit across the planet's face as tiny black dots.

2. Saturn: The "Lemon with Handles"

Saturn looks beautiful in these scopes, but lacks the "crispness" of your 200mm reflector.

The Rings: You will clearly see the rings as a distinct structure separated from the planet body.

Cassini Division: This is the dark gap between the rings. In a 50mm smart scope, the Cassini Division is almost never visible. The rings will appear as one solid, smooth band.

Surface Detail: You might see a slight darkening at the polar region, but you won't see the individual atmospheric bands that your Newtonian shows.

3. Mars: The "Tiny Ruby"

Mars is the most difficult target for small apertures.

The Disc: Even at its closest point (opposition), Mars remains very small. You will see a clear, tiny salmon-colored circle.

Polar Caps: You may see a bright white "glow" at one of the poles, but it usually looks like a highlight rather than a clearly defined ice cap.

Surface Features: Large dark regions like Syrtis Major can sometimes be captured as a faint, dark grey smudge in the center of the disc, but only during opposition and with heavy post-processing.

I think you'll find Newtonian physics including gravity haven't changed much over a far longer period!

Yes, this is my why I got it , rather than for planets etc.

I'm finding the opportunity and lugging around too much as well. The thought of having one of these with me in the boot of my car when I'm on holiday in a dark space is appealing. Fast to set up and good for nebulae and some galaxies. But at the end of the day, like all astrophotography, including that from Hubble, they are lots of pixels of collected light, collated and enhanced by computer software. But who wouldn't want a mini-Hubble in the boot of their car.

I took this with my DSLR on my tripod using"lucky imaging video".

https://ibb.co/TxBGHJbz 

It's because your link isn't an image, it's a web page.

The actual image URL is this:

https://i.ibb.co/hJRNKrZp/Jupiter-4-ON-1-cropped-more.jpg 

...and you can get that, on Edge at least, by right-clicking the image and selecting "copy image link".

(Great capture BTW! 👍)

I share your cynicism. 

Firstly it hasn't helped that NASA has relied so much on SpaceX until recently. I'd say that company is one of the biggest money flushing exercises humanity has managed but Elon ofc owns more than just one dollar burning enterprise.

So it hasn't helped that all of the SpaceX asininity has set our baseline expectations so low that we see any rocket that doesn't immediately explode as some kind of success story. However when you zoom out a little the whole exercise still ends up being unproductive; there are far more cost effective ways to do good science - the only point to this is that it somehow lays the groundwork to people going back on the moon within a few years even though it will inevitably be delayed until after 2030 and then quietly shelved circa 2032. 

What if it's an image on your own PC? I uploaded it to a free hosting site and used the link it generated? That is what just gave me the link, not the image.

Beast probably thinks they could simply be teleported to the moon.

My point is that if we cant travel any faster than we could in 1972, then is there any justification for the billions of taxpayers money to be spent on things like this?

Its fine for Musk and other private sector entities to do what they can, but that money could be better spent helping Americans at home

A simple question for you: why do you think speed is important?  Faster means more fuel is required, both to accelerate and decelerate, and assuming you want both the journey there and the journey back to be faster that’s two lots of extra energy needed, which means an ever larger rocket has to be launched with even more fuel.  All for what benefit exactly?

I'm thinking of the astronauts.  Especially the girl who seems quite attractive.  Imagine 3 strapping young men and pretty girl stuck in a tiny capsule for 10 days! All sorts of things could happen!

When you travel really fast, there are problems when you stop like this Beast.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8jzr423p9o .

I think we all agree with that and my point was that this is a small amount of money compared to what they are spending on killing innocent people and until the American people start questioning that as a priority this is a more worthy distraction.

The solar system has one less comet. On April 4th, Comet MAPS (C/2026 A1) flew through the sun's atmosphere only 160,000 km above the sun's surface. The comet went in, but only a cloud of debris came out:

https://spaceweather.com/ 

https://spaceweather.com/images2026/05apr26/obliterated_opt.gif 

https://spaceweather.com/images2026/08apr26/panstarrs_strip.png 

https://spaceweather.com/ 

https://spaceweather.com/ 

"If all goes well, the crew will splash down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego on Friday, April 10th, around 5:07 pm Pacific Time. Between now and then, amateur astronomers can photograph the brightening capsule (magnitude +12 to +10) in the constellations Ophiuchis and Scorpius. Here are instructions for downloading coordinates from JPL. 

https://spaceweather.com/images2026/28mar26/horizons.html 

"The crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 01:07 BST (20:07 EDT), with commander Reid Wiseman confirming his team is healthy."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3dlnzv5r71t 

I stayed up to watch the return to Earth. It was a nerve wracking few minutes when they were out of contact, particularly as it was a little longer than expected.

It’s still amazing to me that something so complex goes perfectly; there’s almost no margin for error during re-entry, as the slight error on the previous unmanned flight showed.

Its also rather depressing that in 60 odd years of Space travel, we havent worked out a way of doing this easily.  We still cant travel any faster in space than we did during the original moon landings.  We are no closer to Mars.  If the laws of physics dictate that we can never travel easily and safely great distances, let alone leave the solar system, then what is the point of spending all this money.  If Aliens really did exist, they would have made contact by now.  Even if complex life like humans exist,  no one in the universe has clearly invented Star Trek style technology of fast space travel and long distance communications or they would have been here already or sent a message at least.